Study finds Wisconsin has nearly double the national rate and 91% killed with guns.

Parents are free to homeschool their unvaccinated kids.

The mining industry has updated its practices and technology, and our laws have also been updated over time. Act 134 maintained strong environmental standards without preempting local regulations or adding exemptions to environmental standards.

Mining industry representative Nathan Conrad, in his May 15 Cap Times column, repeats the discredited statements and vague promises used to support 2017 Act 134 to push unsafe mining on Wisconsin. Conrad claims the new law maintained environmental protections, when in fact it gutted many protections and public rights for mining proposals.

Not very, the data suggests. Is there any way to change this?

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson sat down with the Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens to discuss a wide variety of contemporary political issues in Wisconsin, and to share what he has been doing since his retirement from public office.

Republicans pass on fixing broken school funding system.

Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.

Attacks on Madison have become commonplace in Scott Walker’s speeches.

Average top exec earned $34.4 million in 2018 — 660 times the average worker’s pay.

Foxconn and Wisconsin happen to be a major example of how a new niche of consultants called “site selectors” pit communities against each other in multi-state bidding wars to maximize tax breaks, grants, land deals and other incentives.

Rural Wisconsin and its farmers are on the edge. And, Trump’s razzle-dazzle can’t mask the misery and pain.

An English teacher in Kenosha County is concerned that a lawsuit to overturn Act 10 will force her to join a union and restrict her classroom teaching.

As Madison schools consider how best to teach students about healthy relationships and safe sexual activity, the rest of the state should follow suit. Every student in Wisconsin will benefit.