The Cap Times and the Madison chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will partner to create a scholarship that will help three young journalists follow the trail that Pat blazed with the deeply held belief that journalism can make a difference — that it can make the world a better place by challenging the systems and institutions that too often benefit the comfortable at the expense of the vulnerable.

The Lower Wisconsin Riverway is an outstanding example of the good people of Wisconsin living up to our stewardship obligation.

By moving forward with price transparency nationwide, the Trump administration is working toward a day when all Americans can enjoy these potential savings.

He needs to tone down the harsh rhetoric. It’s only adding to the divisiveness. We’re happier with the Governor’s decision to issue executive orders as a way to get something done in light of an obstructionist legislative majority.

If you love freedom and the rights afforded every American under the constitution, consider yourself warned: The only thing standing between Gov. Tony Evers and your right to keep and bear arms is the GOP majority in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Since taking office, Trump has been an anchor on Republican electoral prospects.

I am grateful to U.S. Reps. Mark Pocan, James Sensenbrenner and Ron Kind for cosponsoring the “Safe Step Act,” and I urge the rest of the Wisconsin congressional delegation to likewise support this needed protection.

The push by Superior to build its own municipal fiber infrastructure comes despite plenty of recent examples of local governments wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on similar projects all across the country – like in the City of Madison.

Rent paid to city of Milwaukee for prime lakefront land has barely budged in 20 years.

Is it just me, or did things even weirder in the state Capitol these last few days than is usually the case?

Gov. Tony Evers and his liberal allies have repeatedly pointed to a Marquette University Law School Poll that showed 80 percent of Wisconsin voters support more gun-restriction laws. Evers and the pollsters apparently haven’t been to the 24th Senate District.

Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens interviews Dean Margaret Raymond, who has served as the Fred W. and Vi Miller Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School since July 2011.

Twenty-four states have a mechanism that allows their respective citizens to have a direct impact on the laws that govern them. I want to make Wisconsin the 25th.

Recent statements and foot dragging by governor’s staff raise questions about transparency.

Back in April, the morning after she was elected, Rhodes-Conway told me she would try to be mayor for everyone, not just her younger progressive base. Half a year later in, with her first budget behind her, she appears to be doing just that.

“A Toast to Tony Earl” recaptured his long public service, but what was so striking about the event, emceed by former ambassador to Norway Tom Loftus, was its congeniality — Democrats and Republicans, friends and even some old political adversaries gathering together to remember old times when you could disagree but not become an enemy.

The longing to be Virginia – the state, that is — is particularly strong in Wisconsin, which on paper has a similar state political setup but little chance of duplicating that Nov. 5 election outcome.