The party’s coastal elites sneer at hardworking Democrats in the heart of the country. Hollywood mocks their traditional cultural views while pretending the entertainment industry isn’t a snake pit of degradation.

Ryan and other conservative leaders may have no choice but to address the Affordable Care Act’s many failures in bite-sized pieces. A key provision to sink their teeth into is the health insurance tax, often called the “HIT.”

Federal regulations force school districts to spend that money or face funding cuts.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on charges against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Manafort’s business associate, Rick Gates.

Wisconsin’s weak gun laws enable gun traffickers, and other criminals and dangerous individuals to purchase, possess, and use guns in crimes in cities, towns, and neighborhoods outside Wisconsin.

The proposed Marsy’s Law has the understandable goal of codifying victims’ rights in the Wisconsin state constitution, but much of this bill is unworkable and some of it is unconstitutional.

How much longer we can survive really depends on whether or not USDA decides that organic rules need to be followed by everyone — no matter how big their farm is, or what country they farm in.

Unfortunately, only 11 percent of U.S. employees have access to paid family leave through their jobs, which means millions of workers are forced to choose between family health obligations and the income they need to cover basic expenses.

If politics is indeed a war, conservatives have suddenly become the peace-loving flower children of the new generation. Rather than stand and fight against the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump’s corrosive forces, stalwart conservatives are dropping their weapons and high-tailing it from the battlefield.

The GOP tax cuts are not paid for and will add at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt. Worse, all the GOP proposed individual tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) and corporations add up to about $5.5 trillion. The tax cuts will make America a plutocracy.

A class of parents cued into the performance of their local schools would be far more likely to overcome the problem of governance fragmentation than the alternative solution proposed by Ford.

He’s moving to shift from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources the oversight of controversial, large-scale, water-demanding and manure-producing animal feeding and breeding operations to the more industry-focused Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection, (DATCP), where all sorts of ag and dairy promotion and marketing is centered.

Forget about the skills gap. The overriding concern in Wisconsin and many other states is a “quantity gap,” meaning there simply aren’t enough working-age people to go around – skilled or otherwise.

Those who were here during the 1960s and well into the ’90s remember Durkin as the fireball unionist who got Madison’s firefighters a more sensible workweek and decent wages and then as the fire chief who tore down barriers and conquered prejudices by hiring women and minorities to make our department one of the most diverse fire departments in America.

As the details of tax reform emerge in the coming weeks, I hope we can approach the debate with an open mind before retreating to our respective partisan corners.

Walker administration won’t release details of massive subsidy until after contract is signed.

It does not seem prudent to change the definitions and rules that define a co-op for the benefit of one organization that wishes to retain the advantages they have enjoyed while all their members were equal.

Well, perhaps those three state senators singled out by fellow Republican and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos this past week aren’t “terrorists” but, let’s be honest here, they sure are experts at throwing bombs.

Republican Tom Tiffany targets Public Trust doctrine that protects our waters.