Our budget helps to build a strong workforce by investing in student success. We reform welfare to reward work. And we make government more accountable so we can continue to lower the tax burden on our hard-working taxpayers.

Millions of Wisconsinites fill their gas tanks each day, blissfully unaware that the cost per gallon they pay is artificially inflated by state law.

If dairy producers cannot find the labor they need, our nation must either import workers or import dairy products from foreign countries.

Second straight year Gov. Scott Walker left the podium without taking questions.

The youths at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons need a lot more help from the Legislature than they are getting.

I get the motive behind proposals in the Legislature to punish those who would use violence to disrupt speakers on the state’s public university campuses. But I’m also very leery of government efforts to control speech.

This Never Trumper sees no impeachable offense.

The right-wing extremist’s disregard for the Constitution is well documented, and now he’s reportedly joining Trump’s DHS.

Does gerrymandering or Democrats’ urban density tilt map? U.S. Supreme Court could decide.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Donald Trump can be taken out just like Richard Nixon.

Clarke’s new role will be as a public liaison between DHS and police agencies, which is really amazing considering his poor relations with the Milwaukee Police Department and even his own deputies.

I can think of few men more uniquely unqualified to liaise with local law enforcement at this juncture, when the agency is ramping up immigration raids, filling detention centers and carrying out deportations as fast as possible.

A state measure that would require placing sexual offenders in their home counties may make sense. What doesn’t is enacting it by sneaking it into the state budget.

There is no bailing out or patching up Obamacare. It will eventually sink to the bottom of the abyss.

What I’d like to see are itemized bills showing what procedures, hospital stays, drugs and all the other American health care products actually cost.

A recent $425,000 grant to the University of Wisconsin-Stout by the Charles Koch Foundation is the largest single, annual gift ever given to a Wisconsin college or university by the rightwing grantor, but not the first.