Ashland County asks voters for property tax hike to handle costs; referendum defeated.

At a workshop of the Convention of States, a project to call an Article V constitutional convention for the purposes of amending the federal Constitution to limit the power of the federal government, right-wing provocateur David Horowitz was a featured panelist.

With the remaining $45 million available, the Department of Justice has initiated a second round of school safety grants focused on bolstering the baseline mental health and security improvements from the first round of funding.

Roe v. Wade is, unfortunately, not a coherent constitutional argument

Trump is the enemy of truth. Journalists are still the best protection of a democratic nation.

The number of students enrolled in teacher preparation programs is shrinking and schools are seeing fewer people apply for teaching positions. The Public Policy Forum found that between the 2008 and 2013 school year, enrollees in Wisconsin teacher training programs declined by 29 percent.

Wisconsin has been hit again by flooding that scoured away cars, pavement, and land. We’ve also got Scott Walker’s ‘chamber of commerce mentality’ management that scrubbed away important information about why the flooding is likely to get worse, having ignored expert, public warnings about insufficient stormwater management and funding since 2003.

This corrosion of civic education is manifesting itself in the types of leaders Americans are choosing and in what citizens expect of those leaders once they take office.

America is not a fascist state yet. But it could get there in a hurry.

Central to the Republican stratagem is restricting voting by groups that tend to vote Democratic: youth, minorities, the poor and disabled.