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.

Journalists and media owners can only do their part — re-engineering their business models and working hard to assure a strong, independent and authoritative press. It will be up to thoughtful people across the ideological spectrum to decide this thing is bigger than any garden-variety, left-right squabble. That will determine what kind of country — democracy really — we leave to our children and grandchildren.

Wisconsin does both better and worse than neighboring states.

Attorney General is anything but tough on crime by serial rapists.

There is certainly more work to be done, but tax reform has opened the door to new possibilities and opportunities for families. It has improved people’s lives. All of this, in just six months.

Edge Messaging’s Brian Fraley and Dan Deibert discuss the latest Marquette University Law School Poll.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after the U.S. Supreme Court sent a Wisconsin gerrymandering case back to a lower court.