The timing was impossible to ignore. Exactly a year after Trump took office, the US electorate awoke.

Your proposal may be a good idea or a bad idea, but it is not a new idea. Change course and pledge to go on a listening tour and visit every two year college and hear them out. That is the Wisconsin Idea.

Walker’s re-election is anything but assured. A recent poll by a respected national survey firm found that Walker trails a generic Democratic opponent for re-election by 48 percent to 43 percent.

The Trump Effect in Wisconsin likely will help Walker. After all, Wisconsin voters knew full well who Trump was when they went to the polls, and they voted for him anyway. If there’s evidence that associating with Trump hurts Republican politicians in the state, I haven’t seen it.

Instead of reform, the GOP federal tax plan is really yet another attempt to foist the “trickle-down” theory on an unsuspecting public — you know, the theory that has failed time and again since it was first introduced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

This past week we announced a restructure of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. The committee will be charged with researching our tax code and developing a new, low, fair and simple plan.

Favored Republican towns allowed to levy a local sales tax, but not Milwaukee.

Inspired by the rush to give it all to Foxconn, the mining rights giveaway bill has passed Tuesday night, and Walker will sign it.

Among other things, it means a much higher taxpayer bill when the inevitable need to rebuild and modernize a critical transportation artery is addressed.

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.

The energy marketplace has already embraced renewables as part of a balanced portfolio.

And how tax reform and transportation upgrades can help Wisconsin take full advantage.

Are they incompetent or flouting the law? And how will they oversee Foxconn?

The Foxconn legislation creates special treatment for Foxconn whenever the corporation is sued in Wisconsin courts.

Last week, Governor Walker signed into law my contribution to the HOPE Agenda, AB 335, which cracks down on the distribution of fentanyl analogs.

Currently, In Wisconsin, there is no statutory guidance on how correctional facilities restrain pregnant women. This is out of step with correctional practices nationwide.

The launching of UW-Madison Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy is much needed.

Rep. Pocan has been pressuring his colleagues to do something — anything — to address what is our national embarrassment: the killing and wounding of tens of thousands of mostly innocent people by firearms every single year.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker formally announced his re-election campaign on Sunday. What are his prospects for victory? What are his strengths and vulnerabilities and who is his likely opponent?