Republicans and Democrats alike deserve credit for warming the early stage investment climate over time, taking actions that have helped to “de-risk” many private deals that otherwise may not have been funded. If a separate bill this fall revives the fund-of-funds idea, they could do so again.

Prehn said that Kaul’s suit to force Prehn from the natural Resources Board was all just “politics” and that Kaul was only acting so that Evers could push his own natural resource agenda. Right. Yes. Exactly. This is how it works.

253 municipalities in state cut police funding in 2019 for budget reasons, report finds.

It is confounding that the Republican Party is going contrary to the large majority on this all-important issue.

Only a hard-core minority oppose it. So why are GOP politicians encouraging this, and risking our health?

The western Wisconsin military installation is planning to house the refugees in its barracks before being resettled in Wisconsin communities and elsewhere.

Another such victory and we are undone.

The hope, of course, is to make it difficult for all but white Americans to have easy access to voting.

Rather than surrender to the inevitability of a Taliban victory that Biden swore wouldn’t happen, he could have kept a status quo that at the very least avoided needless bloodshed and scenes of abject panic that will echo through history.

Biden’s decision to follow Trump’s lead in abandoning Afghanistan has led, as most observers said it would, to a humanitarian disaster with worse to come.

Biden has made it clear that more lives should not be lost or more national treasure expended. He refuses to hand this problem off to yet another person to sit in the White House. President Biden has rightly concluded this chapter.

As storms intensify and this pandemic rises anew, Olikara insists that “sustainability” begins with democracy, and a viable future depends on discovering a better politics in us.
Trust him to lead us there.

The people of riot-ravaged Kenosha were pleading for help from Gov. Tony Evers with each passing day of chaos and destruction. When the governor finally did act, the help he sent was too little and much too late.

Less than six months after Wisconsin wolf packs were left reeling after an unprecedented breeding season recreational hunt, state officials are pushing forward plans to kill hundreds more animals in 2021. Ojibwe leaders are outraged.

Herbicide resistance leads to what is called the “pesticide treadmill,” where more applications and more herbicides are needed to successfully control weeds. Now more than 40 types of weeds are resistant to glyphosate.

This permanent credit would lift 45,000 children out of poverty in Wisconsin, cutting child poverty in the state by 45 percent.

The one place where Wisconsin stood tall over the decades was in the halls of Congress.

How Critical Race Theory Became the GOP’s new Southern Strategy.

All 72 counties increased their percentage of people of color since 2010, Census data shows.