What can Milwaukee learn from from losing its bid for Amazon’s headquarters?

We know that by working together we can find the best, most efficient ways to solve the state’s challenges, create private sector jobs and private sector profits, and keep that revenue in Wisconsin to invest in our people and our economy.

The discoveries in Wisconsin’s John Doe case and the Mueller investigation teach the same lesson: Unaccountable agencies have become powerful tools that partisan cabals can use to undermine representative government.

State pension fund invests in companies making guns that kill students.

At the same time we are supposed to believe 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote on matters of national importance, we are also being told that the minimum age to own a firearm should be raised to 21.

The bottom line is that there are too many Rick Scotts in control, including here in Wisconsin. Let’s be honest: It won’t get any better until the voters get rid of them.

Today’s new Wisconsin Idea is all about how we can position our state to once again be a leader — in economic development, in innovation, in protecting our environment, and in graduating students who can make it happen.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the idea of arming teachers with guns at schools.

Under the decorum imposed on members of Congress, there is now no way to call a liar a liar without violating comity. And more and more our politics have been a field day for flat-out lying.

For at least one bill, on one day, the legislative process worked the way it is supposed to, the way that fourth-graders across the state are told it works when they study Wisconsin government.

Wisconsin politicians like Robin Vos and his legislative Republican colleagues, and congressional leaders like our own Paul Ryan, “caution” us against “knee-jerk” reactions to the Parkland, Florida, high school tragedy. A conservative U.S. Supreme Court gave them cover and now it’s up to the voters to decide if politicians can continue refusing to do what’s right for all Americans.

The students have done more to advance the gun control debate, and the cultural discussion around violence and patriarchy, than anyone in recent memory.

Gun control clearly is the high profile issue about which otherwise sensible people are completely ignorant.

Foreign investors could help protect Wisconsin’s way of life.

Too much opposition from many state groups.