Until conservatives show up in the spring the way they show up in the fall for the likes of Donald Trump and Ron Johnson, our schools are going to be run by entitled elitists who want to enrich themselves all the while schools in our state are going to hell.

No finger to the wind. No telling people whatever they wanted to hear. Voters knew what they were getting. America could use more of that.

You might not know it from the sports rivalries between the Gophers and the Badgers, or the Vikings and the Packers, but Wisconsin has long cherished its relationship with its neighbor Minnesota.

Afghans served as translators and other support personnel during America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war by far in American history. They saved countless American lives during the mission, ultimately successful, to track down Osama bin Laden.

Gone are the days when senators spent decades in the state Legislature.

Brennan recognizes what’s at stake.

Madison takes enough incoming from the hard-right. We don’t need the left to pile on.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel education reporter Kayla Huynh’s February 2 story pulls back the curtain on an issue with adverse consequences on a par with the decades-long forced busing desegregation plan.

Estate planning isn’t just for the wealthy. It’s for anyone who wants to ensure their wishes are honored, their loved ones are protected, and their hard-earned assets go where they are supposed to go.

Over more than four decades, George Austin has steered iconic Madison projects like the Monona Terrace Convention Center and the Overture Center for the Arts. He is doing it again now as the project manager for the forthcoming Wisconsin History Center on Capitol Square.

The question isn’t whether data centers are coming. They are. The question is whether Wisconsin will do the hard work required to capture the benefits, mitigate the downsides and be a leader in the high-tech economy.

Wisconsin, once a bastion of open government, is now dealing with billion- and trillion-dollar entities seeking to plant huge data centers here. And there aren’t enough journalists to shine a light on what’s happening.

Bills aim to strengthen free speech protections, but future is uncertain.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has many problems. They’re self righteous, secretive and indignant. Their communications efforts do not offer clarity, they obfuscate. This was on full display in their spokesperson’s response to Dairyland Sentinel’s reporting.

There was a time when the biggest bully in school was a kid with a bad haircut and a mean streak. These days, in too many places, the biggest bully in the school is the school itself.

AB104 would intervene within the privileged, confidential relationship between physicians and pediatric patients, offering no avenue of support for gender-diverse youth at a time when the Lemkin Institute has characterized the erosion of transgender rights in the United States as indicative of the “early stages of genocide.”

Wisconsin Democrats are promoting affordability and economic security, while Republicans’ stonewalling on ACA tax credits results in more suffering and political payback for the GOP in November.

Anyone blindly defending this behavior is as much as racist as Trump. This is not the first time he crossed the line.

I wonder if my old civics teacher would have wanted us to memorize these names?

Inside or outside the church, all of us have a role to play in advocating for social justice.