From Rio de Janeiro to Belém, Wisconsin is showing how pragmatic, locally led climate action can power jobs, resilience, and economic growth

Company faces more legal claims for underpaying workers.

State GOP, local school both irrationally obstruct it

Just a few years after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the doors for states to legalize sports gambling, a scandal erupted — as many had predicted.

AI appears to have the capacity to make previous changes look modest. Meanwhile, state and federal authorities — and much of the business world, let alone employees — look thoroughly unprepared to keep up. Hold on. Rough ride ahead.

Proposed bill would stop practice of ‘surveillance pricing’

This session, I am the Assembly lead author of Assembly Bill 156, a bill that helps to prevent child sex abuse.

Recipients of both programs face uncertainty due to the government shutdown.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. All too often, secrecy and confidentiality carry the day in proceedings of state and local government.  In one recent case, the

How the ACA led to soaring insurance premiums and rapid market consolidation.

GOP U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald were the state’s only lawmakers voting to overturn Biden’s presidential victory in the key swing states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

We wanted our village board to assess the risks identified and either slow way down or stop the deal because we felt the risks set the village up for significant harm in the short and long-term. Our objections were not based on emotion or anti-development ideology. Our objections were fact-based and numerical.

The Wisconsin pension fund’s Bitcoin investments were a masterclass in disciplined fiduciary management that most commentators completely misunderstood.

Milwaukee Hop is more than a downtown amenity. It represents the critical first step toward establishing regional transit authorities in Wisconsin, which remain prohibited by state law. This prohibition hasn’t just hindered Milwaukee; it has hobbled economic development across our entire state.

The chaotic tariff policy and the massive cuts to basic scientific research erode our ability to lead, innovate, and enable our citizenry to afford their accustomed daily activities. They render our nation increasingly dependent on foreign innovation, less competitive, less secure and ultimately, less free.

Trump needs to get his tariff obsession done with so the economy-wrecking uncertainty is put to rest.

For decades, conservatives in America have shouted that the Second Amendment exists to protect citizens from government tyranny.

Even before this latest addition to the long list of foreboding climate records, a spring Gallup poll showed a record number of Americans view global warming as a serious threat to them personally.

Wisconsin attorney general Josh Kaul has decided that if the U.S. Supreme Court won’t let him discriminate against Catholic Charities when it comes to a religious tax exemption, then he’ll take a wrecking ball to the tax exemption itself.

As governor, I’ll make it my top priority to make life more affordable for everyone.