Superintendent Jill Underly delivered her annual “State of Education” address last week. If you tuned in hoping for an honest assessment of how Wisconsin students are doing, you were left disappointed.

I hope partisan politics doesn’t prevent legislators from scoring these obvious wins for Wisconsin schools.

This is the time for Democrats in the Legislature to stand firm. When it comes to preserving the best of what is left of outdoor Wisconsin in the face of development pressure and changing land use patterns, the public is with those would stand up for our outdoors.

America’s economic future depends on the creativity and competitiveness of its companies. Without reform, the ITC will continue to reward gamesmanship instead of genuine innovation.

Trump’s economically unjustified retaliatory tariffs are impacting soybean farmers in the nation.

One of the worst examples is the Supreme Court’s green light for masked ICE agents to stop and question people on the streets based on their accents or the color of their skin. Meanwhile, corporate America, big law firms and revered universities bow to every outrageous demand

With Evers flexing his new, court-created authority, Wisconsinites are right to fear for their pocketbooks. But the Legislature can still act to ensure that the “will of the people” actually is the law of the land.

Once again, women in Wisconsin are being denied full control of their reproductive health care decisions. Once again, Illinois is preparing to offer services for the abortion procedure.

Three of the largest energy providers in the state want to increase electric rates in Wisconsin.

Because energy costs are baked into everything we eat, buy and do, we shouldn’t all pay for the mega-corporation’s technology gold rush. Demand accountability: Data centers must pay their own way, or the grid — and our wallets — will buckle under their weight.

MPS bilingual program has played an important role in helping language diversity thrive in our community.

For reasons that no pundit, historian, or politician can fully explain, Charlie Kirk’s death unleashed not only an outpouring of grief and anger but also a revival of hope, resistance, and inspiration that touched the hearts of millions around the world.

As Black America grapples with the latest iteration of the modern civil rights movement, Black churches find themselves at a critical crossroads.

Instead of constantly thinking and talking about him, we can choose to think and talk about our shared experiences as Americans, our cares, our concerns, our strengths, our weaknesses, our hopes, our dreams. Dare you.

Four historic allies of the United States and of Israel recognized the Palestinian state. U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan thinks the United States should do the same.

Wisconsin Democrats would be wise to make a serious play for the 7th CD.

Consistently insulated from economic waves, it sports building cranes and signs of growth all around. Rockford, 70 miles south, has long been Madison’s polar opposite.

Gov. Tony Evers has made clear that he will forgo the opportunity for our state to participate in the Education Scholarships program.

Augustine Preparatory School’s north campus will fill an ‘opportunity gap’ for thousands of kids in the years ahead.

Following the clues.