Drop in homeownership among African-Americans and Hispanics underlines an affordable housing crisis since the Great Recession.

Clearly, the future of the family-owned dairy farm is not a concern of Perdue; just as clearly, the future of rural America is not a concern of the trade-war-obsessed Trump administration.

An enormous task is before you: to provide a leader for your police department who thoroughly understands and is to show he or she can lead community-oriented policing department-wide, sees the community as an ally, is well-educated, trained, experienced, respectful to everyone and understands the use of physical force by police is a sacred and public trust.

Every mature voter knows there is a need to enhance revenues if we are to meet the needs of the citizenry. An honest approach making it clear that streets and roads must have more funds, so they can be serviced adequately, should not be politically risky in this city.

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is proposing a $40 wheel tax on car registrations in order to fund her transit plans and plug holes in her overall budget.

During a news conference on the Expo grounds, the biggest gathering of dairy farmers and suppliers in the world, Perdue said, “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.” And if that wasn’t enough of a downer to those who had banked on a Trump administration to provide some help, Perdue added that in America, no small business should expect a guaranteed income or a profit.

Let’s reframe and reset the debate and move Wisconsin Medicaid expansion forward.

The Republican-led state Legislature has long championed pro-growth tax reform.

Regardless of where students attend school in Wisconsin, these high debt loads will have a significant impact on their lives after graduation, and more should be done by Wisconsin politicians to help reduce student debt in the state so that young Wisconsinites aren’t struggling with repayment.

The president would be well-served to recognize that increasing biofuel volumes to appease ethanol interests would undermine the very communities at the center of his “America First” and “Energy Dominance” agendas.

Can whoever succeeds Koval as Madison police chief succeed in a city so prone to criticism?

Koval’s resignation Sunday was a siren in the night alerting others to take up his battle with the cop-bashers.

Either he can admit that he lied about when state law required him to hold that special election or he can admit that his Administration was too incompetent to read applicable federal law before issuing his executive order.

In an Oct. 1 meeting with reporters at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue tied the current dairy crisis to economies of scale, telling reporters, “In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.” It might have been refreshing to hear a politician speak so plainly, had the line not been so apathetic that it hit the attending farmers like a kick in the guts.

The Republican state senator, often referred to as Wisconsin’s most anti-environment legislator, is running for the 7th Congressional District seat recently vacated by Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy.

When its Legislature authorized dental therapists a decade ago, Minnesota became the first state in the nation to license dental therapists. It’s a profession that is new to the US but is common elsewhere in the world.

State GOP leaders mislead as they fight gun control efforts.