When it comes to immigrant labor in Wisconsin and much of the nation, there’s the world of political babble, and then there’s reality on the ground.

As the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court heats up, Milwaukee County Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz last week showed just what a partisan justice she would be if elected — contrary to her claims.

It is dawning on the GOP that it can’t ignore the liberal enclave.

Time for the conservative movement to get serious and stop with the crazy.

Equity, whether in women’s pay or laws on marriage equality, is a relatively new thing. We have to fight for every win and leave everything on the field, to ensure that we keep moving the ball forward in the right for all to be equally valued and respected.

Policymakers in Wisconsin must think about what lies ahead on the climate calendar. More people will likely be tempted to move here or return home as conditions change. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. It shouldn’t be an unplanned thing.

Why is Wisconsin dilly dallying? Higher education is our future. Use the surplus to fund it.

Agency spending would increase by $8.2 billion over next two years.

The Evers administration plans to ask state environmental officials again for permission to develop groundwater standards.

At a time when Tammy Baldwin was uniting Democrats and Republicans in support of marriage equality, he voted “no.”

Elections are about the future, not about the past. Proven problem-solvers won big in the November elections. Candidates who were perceived as too focused on the last election did not. There is a lesson there for the future.

In the past several years in this country we have witnessed an alarming rise in hateful words turn into violent actions. This is not a novel occurrence as some speculate. America has been here before.