One clear sign would be if Leah Vukmir loses U.S. Senate primary.

How expanded entrepreneurship can fit into Wisconsin’s economy.

Corporate America has largely avoided sticking its head over the parapet in the trade war. That’s going to become harder as the bellicose rhetoric transforms into action.

While the casualties in Trump’s trade war have been kind of “faceless” so far, that changed yesterday with the announcement by Harley-Davidson that the US motorcycle company would be moving more of its production outside of the US in response to Trump’s tariffs.

We are already seeing the statewide benefits of Foxconn’s historic investment. 

A recent story in the British newspaper The Observer, sister paper to The Guardian, reported that the corporation’s factory in Hengyang, China, had once again violated employment laws in that country.

“The Road to Sprawlville” now runs from State Capitol to rural Racine County and right through to Mount Pleasant by bulldozing the land, diverting the water, polluting the air and evading or breaking traditional Wisconsin practices and values.

Gov. Scott Walker offered something worse than deafening silence on Donald Trump’s unconscionable policy of tearing infants, toddlers, and children from their parents and placing them in 21st-century internment camps when he said he wouldn’t comment on a “federal” issue.

Calls House Speaker Trump’s “poodle,” urges people to vote Democratic.

While the university has no shortage of great ideas, we could certainly do a better job matching those ideas with advisory groups and management and leadership teams that can credibly present a business opportunity to venture capitalists and angel investors. We need help from people with entrepreneurial skills and expertise to be advisors, counselors and mentors. And who better to play those roles than our 441,500 UW alumni?

Cannabis has been found to help many patients suffering from conditions that can afflict veterans as a result of their service, including chronic pain, cancer, ALS, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorders, and phantom limb pain. In 2017 all major veterans service organizations in Wisconsin passed a number of resolutions on health care, including one supporting medical cannabis for veterans with a doctors recommendation. AG Shimel and Wisconsin government continues to ignore the veterans’ position.

Time will tell if the plaintiffs can establish the requisite “standing” to bring their case back to the U.S Supreme Court. Whether or not they succeed, the efforts to curb excessive partisanship in state legislative and congressional redistricting will continue, but in different ways

While our governor, Scott Walker, was sending about two dozen Wisconsin National Guard troops to the Mexican border last week, governors from several other states were telling Donald Trump “no way.”

Earlier this month, I traveled to El Salvador with the U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities delegation, who are primarily from Madison. Last week, I watched in horror as President Trump’s inhumane and cruel policy of taking away children, including babies and toddlers, from their immigrant parents as they enter the United States intensified. Many of these individuals and families are from Central America, including El Salvador.

As America continues its downward spiral of incivility, we have entered the Summer of Jerkitude.