The record under Walker — and before him, former Governor Jim Doyle — shows what happens when reasonable limits are ignored.

There are two words that characterize every budget in the City of Milwaukee since Tom Barrett became mayor: borrow and spend.

With at least five states bidding for the work and a governor eager to burnish his cred as a job creator as an election approaches, there is a real risk of “overpaying.” Walker needs to be ready to walk away.

That the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut the door on the John Doe investigation in the absence of any testimony or factual findings is indicative of the collapse of the analytical process upon which the justice system relies.

Senate Republicans are breaking out the credit card to borrow more hundreds of millions of dollars and stick our grandkids with the bill. Remember when Republicans sold themselves as fiscal conservatives?

Now one of the professed goals of the GOP is to reduce health care costs. None of the bills they’ve proposed have done anything to address health care costs.

Three Plott hounds have been reported by the Department of Natural Resources to have been thrown to the wolves by their owners between July 15-17.

A coalition of constitutionalists just prevailed in a high-stakes struggle to defend freedom of religion as it is outlined in the First Amendment.

Walker, Trump, and their ilk find it easier and more appealing to their followers to condemn one and all in the media to, as Huppke points out, make the divide wider for their own purposes.

It’s not often senators will call out their own leaders like this.

Bills that Republicans are proposing unnecessarily curtail local control, continuing a six-year trend of Republicans micromanaging every aspect of state and local government.

Barrett helped set the precedent that recall elections could be used to pull elected officials out of office for standard political differences.

Milwaukee Ald. Jose Perez is asking a good question: Why hasn’t a federal Department of Justice draft review of the Milwaukee Police Department been released to city officials and the public?

While many states have legalized medical marijuana, Wisconsin and other states should move toward full legalization in order to best combat the opioid epidemic.

The fire fighters union’s backing of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s recall is all about driving up their wages and benefits.

The Affordable Care Act and Healthcare.gov created a way for self-employed and small business owners to buy health coverage.

In the competition for a big Foxconn plant with an alleged 10,000 workers, bear in mind that Wisconsin has generally been a loser in sweepstakes those big deals.

Wisconsin’s major highways are congested, in disrepair, with no Amtrak alternative for relief or a 2017-’19 transportation budget resolution in sight — so let’s not forget who helped set this in motion years ago.

The liberal tripe about blue-collar voters going against their own self-interests or going for their worst instincts just isn’t a useful explanation, no matter its accuracy.

The reason actual disciplinary actions will not be recommend nor taken by the Green Bay School District can be summed up in one buzzword: Optics.