At 7 p.m., Gov. Tony Evers will give his 2021-2023 budget address and announce his proposed biennium budget for the state of Wisconsin. To get ready for the evening, IRG gives you 5 things you need to know to access and analyze the budget.

The Biden administration is escalating public health actions: mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel-public transportation, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up U.S. production of PPE and vaccines, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and treatment research.

The worst consequence of Act 10, and it is a long-term consequence, is that it demeaned the profession of teaching.

Our Founders’ worst nightmare was actually what Democrats are doing right now: Using one branch of government to usurp the constitutional authority of another in an attempt to unlawfully impose govt sanctions on a private citizen

Johnson went on Fox News and claimed that it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, not his buddy Donald Trump, who caused the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Even the Fox News host seemed flabbergasted.

If the governor can simply disregard the Legislature’s resolution and redeclare a state of emergency, there is no safeguard from the executive branch taking and keeping powers that do not belong to it.

While prisoners might be confined to the prison grounds, corrections officers, prison staff, attorneys, visitors and medical professionals enter and leave prisons on a daily basis.

Marijuana prohibition currently produces racially disparate drug arrests, costs the state millions

While state Republican candidates outperformed Trump. A problem for both parties.

Considered together, Franklin’s themes presage close, hard-fought elections with the future of Wisconsin — and as a key swing state, the nation — in the balance.

Public reaction to both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections suggests we are losing confidence in our electoral system. Whether this enervated faith is the result of flaws in our procedures, or instead a series of popular misunderstandings, it should tell us we have some work to do if we want to retain (and recapture) trust in our elections.

GOP emails on racial disparities group no real surprise.

A Senate committee wants the Wisconsin Elections Commission to do what it should have done a long time ago: Follow state election law.

With any luck, it will move the conversation forward enough to make medicinal use, decriminalization and expungement tangible ideas.

For nearly 10 months, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has blocked each and every proposed state action that could slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Political centrists in the United States are suffering a severe case of disappointment as they watch the two political parties staying in the same old partisan rut that preceded the election of Joe Biden as president.

We may be turning out smarter tech savvy graduates, more knowledgeable scientists and engineers, but have we sacrificed what is required of an American in keeping the flame of democracy burning?

Freedom, Inc. wants to totally eliminate police departments and free almost everyone from prison.

How public employees beat the odds to create a union.