The Democratic Party needs leaders who can at once match the GOP’s politics-as-war tactical acumen while not painting the entire Republican Party as vile and corrupt.

Wisconsin farmers are reeling from retaliatory tariffs on dairy products, corn, cranberries, ginseng, kidney beans and soybeans, as well as beef and pork. The resultant economic fallout will pulverize rural towns.

Rudy Giuliani’s announced and then canceled trip to Ukraine to encourage that government to find dirt on Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s only surviving son, proved too obviously low for even Trump’s senior advisers – but only after pronounced criticism from both parties.

Presently, with the actions in Venezuela, we have yet another reason not to nationalize the deployment of 5G technology. Competition ensures that people will have multiple options for their cellular and Internet services. And it ensures that access to those technologies can never be blocked from one source.

In an era where the unthinkable becomes reality, now is the time for the Wisconsin legislature to be proactive.

On May 9, the GOP-dominated Joint Finance Committee disregarded the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites on a number of crucial items in Evers’s budget.

The Wisconsin Guard has to reexamine its procedures, institute better training for commanders and officers on what to look for and establish a support system that can restore a soldier’s self-esteem.

If viewed from a long-term perspective Trump’s tariffs represent a successful conclusion, not the failure, of trade talks with China.

I urge our communities to keep contacting their legislators to let them know that the people want Medicaid expansion and the people want a budget that’s for them.

Rather than demand safe spaces and PC, exhibit mental toughness and focus on how to disagree better.

Polls, public hearings show support for more K-12 education funding, Medicaid expansion, medical pot.

I would hope that people from all walks of life can come together against using abortion as a tool of discrimination.

So says a Cato Institute report. There’s reason to doubt this.

It’s like the whole state was enrolled against its will in Trump University. Because we’re seeing again how far in over their heads were Walker and the WEDC he had created as they worked a ‘deal’ with Foxconn, a far more stable, experienced and sophisticated multi-national corporation.

A Wisconsin 2020 election preview just played out in the spring election season here and it is not a good thing for the people of Wisconsin.

As Wisconsin policymakers craft the next state budget, I urge them to consider the invaluable benefits the University of Wisconsin System brings to all parts of the state.