DNR begins PFAS rule-making process
Updated, 12:15 PM, 1/23/2020
As concern continues to grow about PFAS contamination, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources announced plans Wednesday to institute rulemaking procedures to govern the family of ubiquitous chemical substances found in...
Trump promises kept on Rx reform? More like promises broken
As the Democratic candidates for president sparred in Iowa this week, it was inspiring to hear some bold ideas on a topic where solutions are long overdue: the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. While...
Impassioned debate and limited action in the state Senate
There was a running pattern to the state Senate’s first floor session of the year on Tuesday.
Time after time, a bill would come up that narrowly addressed an ongoing issue — one for which...
Citizens United and the Big Picture
As this week’s floor sessions began in both the Senate and the Assembly on Tuesday, a group of legislators and campaign finance reform advocates held a sparsely attended press conference in the Capitol to...
The Assembly dabbles in bipartisanship — then gets derailed
Minority Leader Gordon Hintz (D-Oshkosh) offered his take on the theme of Tuesday’s Assembly floor session an hour before it even began, describing “a pattern ... where Democrats offer a more comprehensive solution on...
Trump impeachment trial gets personal
WASHINGTON — Even before opening arguments were made in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, things got testy.
U.S. House Democrats and Trump’s lawyers sparred for hours Tuesday over the parameters for...
Earthquakes in Puerto Rico touch Wisconsin
“Anxiety is the word everyone is using right now,” says Mabel Maldonado. She is a vice-president for the Milwaukee chapter of the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women.
A 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit the southern...
Citizens United in Wisconsin: a decade of disaster
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision on January 21, 2010 has had a powerful – and profoundly negative – effect on Wisconsin politics.
Spending in Wisconsin state elections by outside special interest groups has...
Activist, professor Angela Davis ties MLK’s legacy to current fight for equity, justice
During her 45-minute speech on the campus of the University of Michigan Monday, Angela Davis urged 3,500 attendees to push back against the prison industrial complex, recognize the negative effects of climate change, speak...
Bill introduced to address “race out of place” police calls
Over two years ago, Rep. Shelia Stubbs found herself at the other end of what she calls “profiling by proxy,” also known as “race out of place,” which is a form of racial profiling...