Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point.
In my military career, I was frequently deployed on the U.S. Navy’s massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers into combat and on more routine …
With the world seemingly teetering between democracy and authoritarianism, you might feel overshadowed by gloom this Thanksgiving.
We all come from families. We all have family stories we don’t repeat in public. But we live our lives knowing we have family.
Exactly three years after his surprise choice as the state Senate’s new leader, Republican Sen. Devin LeMahieu has grown into his role as majo…
In his book titled “12Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin” Matt Rothschild called for banning gerrymandering by adopting the Iowa model for dr…
Last week was the anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation in history, yet the media and public paid little heed. During October 22-28 …
Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. House members generally kept low profiles during their party’s three-week public struggle to elect a House speaker…
This spring I wrote about the Birds coming back. Not robins or orioles but the scooter variety.
No matter where we live, we all deserve and need clean drinking water.
In a 47-page encyclical, Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz refused to withdraw from a lawsuit challenging Assembly and Senate district …
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission filed a major complaint in federal district court alleging that Amazon is an illegal monopoly. The FT…
Republicans who control the state Senate fired the first appointee of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers four years ago, voted to fire the top electio…
I spent two years in Israel, resulting in lifelong friends, my wife and an extended family I love dearly.
We understand the political reasoning behind President Joe Biden joining the United Auto Workers picket line in Michigan on Tuesday: Michigan …
On Saturday, $39 billion in federal child-care funds made available through the American Rescue Plan Act are set to expire. As a result, close…
On September 21, in a magnificent military ceremony, General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of the Defense Staff of France, laid a wreath at the Tomb…
State Public Defender Kelli Thompson, who will soon leave the job she has held for almost 13 years, won’t have to rework her resume.
We live in a border county, a short drive to Illinois. Along with the political division are the sports-fan divisions along that border: Cubs-…
Capitol politicians never stop surprising you.
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It’s never too late to do the right thing. In that spirit, I would like to highlight a national day of observance last month honoring those wh…
An election year is coming up. Politics will be everywhere, cranked to unbearable levels of nastiness.
Should noncitizens be allowed to vote? That sounds a little crazy, doesn’t it?
The leader of Gabon in Africa, Ali Bongo, has been overthrown in a sudden military coup on August 30, right after he was declared the winner i…
Although Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has said he would veto it, the income tax-cut plan that Assembly Republicans hope to pass this week opens …
Time to preview the “to do” list of Republicans who control the fall legislative session.
My grandfather rarely spoke, except through his saxophone. He was a man of few words but a lot of heart.
All-electric cars? Hold that thought.
Saturday night my wife and I headed downtown for dinner. There was nothing unique or special about Saturday, it was just another day in suncity.
The evidence continues to accumulate that America’s nonprofit sector is failing the country in some basic ways. Specifically, it is not doing …
A law review article claiming that Donald Trump is automatically disqualified from holding elected office is getting attention in large part b…
A 3-year-old toddler died this month in Illinois while on a bus on the way to her new home in Indiana. An 8-year-old child with sickle cell an…
The Hollywood writers’ strike is in its fourth month, and the actors’ strike is in its fourth week with no end in sight. Many have called the …
Taiwan recently conducted the first-ever “anti-takeover drill” at the island’s main Taoyuan International Airport, reflecting the growing fear…
There’s an economic calamity approaching: At the end of September, pandemic-era federal funding for child care will expire, potentially leavin…
A county election worker in Oregon recently found himself in an unsettling situation during his rounds collecting ballots from drop boxes. A d…
“A house divided cannot stand” feels uncomfortably on-target at this time in our political history. To compare Abraham Lincoln’s famous words …
After years of protests and community organizing, on June 30 California shut the doors on the last of its youth prisons, signaling the end of …
This fall, to get people back to the office, U.S. employers need to do something radical, something bold, something (gasp) very French: They n…
“Our long national nightmare is over.”
Well, I’m a bobblehead now.
Call it the Special Session Dance.
The state Supreme Court’s new four-justice majority last week fired the state court administrator and drafted rules that would create a three-…
When the names of seriously mentally ill New Yorkers become known to 8 million others, it’s typically for the worst reasons: Either they’re vi…
Camille Edelman is doing the best she can.
Until Sunday, July 23, I had no idea who Ed Sheeran was. I now know I was one of only three people in North America who still had an AOL email…
Congressional Republicans are in a struggle with the White House to rein in federal spending after the U.S. national debt ballooned past $32 t…
Voices of reason are hard to find these days, much less voices of compassion. But both were offered up by one a resident who addressed the Roc…
An alarming crisis is looming on our healthcare horizon, with forecasts of a mass nursing exodus over the next five to 10 years from a system …
“I speak … in a spirit of hope,” said President John F. Kennedy, beginning a policy address to the nation on July 26, 1963. He went on to desc…
A major decision in determining if the Woodman’s Community Center will be built could come soon and at any time.
One month before the first Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, State Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming is advising members of…
Last week’s meeting of the Rock County Board was ugly. But there was beauty among the ugliness, in the form of residents and board members, co…
MAGA Republicans’ willingness to gum up the necessary functions of governance was on display last week in the House of Representatives.
The House bill that sets Pentagon policies for the next year, which began as mundane and bipartisan, passed on Friday on a party-line vote. Th…
President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11-12 is not just ro…
Shouting, disorder, gossip, and a bit of unruliness. I wish I was writing about a middle school classroom that went through a bad day but I’m …
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” so declared Senator Daniel Webster in ending his famous 1830 reply in the U.S. Sena…
My grandma calls him the “seed man.”
If you listen to Republican presidential hopefuls like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, you will hear that the American public education system is f…
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ budget-bill veto that cut the Republicans’ two-year $3.5 billion income tax cut by 95% — back to $175 million — sh…
A Craig high graduate, first generation college student not knowing what to do, and not knowing where to go — he chose U-Rock. He was nervous,…
The Supreme Court’s conservative judicial revolution is taking on a recognizable, three-pronged structure.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby sounded off last week, focusing his ire on the Federal Aviation Administration after thunderstorms were deemed…
They say time heals all wounds. I never fully believed that saying until my interaction last weekend with Bob Villarreal, Merchandise and Comm…
Over the past year, AARP members have sent Congress more than 200,000 emails urging increased funding for the Social Security Administration t…
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years. Many describe contempor…
The Police and Fire Commission will have their work cut out for them in the coming weeks and months with the recent retirement announcement by…
Charter school advocates have dedicated decades to developing free, accessible options in the public school landscape that give low-income stu…
suncity Police Chief Dave Moore announced this week he will retire after 47 years on the force. We could use another Dave Moore to replace him.
I was one of 165 Democrats to vote yes for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which ultimately passed the House earlier this month in an overwhelm…
As the costly war in Ukraine grinds on, Russia President Vladimir Putin adopts an increasingly menacing posture. In particular, he is making m…
As the costly war in Ukraine grinds on, Russia President Vladimir Putin adopts an increasingly menacing posture. In particular, he is making m…
New polling shows trouble ahead for Republican politicians who continue blocking any attempt at rational restrictions on guns: Young conservat…
This week, the chairman of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) will schedule a meeting and call for a motion to appoint the next administ…
I’m a lifelong suncity resident and I’ve been blessed to have some wonderful neighbors who’ve poured into my life over my 50+ years in town…
I’ve attended several graduations over the last few years. Two Craig commencements, one at Blackhawk Technical College and one on the south si…
America is getting up in years. Well, we’re still toddlers compared to international ancients such as Iran (founded 3200 B.C.) and Egypt (3100…
The smoke from wildfires in Canada that has drifted down to the United States, choking New York City and Philadelphia with their worst air qua…
Wisconsin Democrats had a trifecta of wins since Party Chair Ben Wikler took that job in 2019, so delegates at the party’s state convention la…