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The liberal counterattack wilts in the summer heat As spring turned into summer, Wisconsin remained the center of the political…

Study assesses the condition and 10-year needs of Wisconsin’s State Highway System. It estimates the costs of addressing deficiencies, adding new or expanded facilities, bringing the system up to prudent standards, maintenance and administration.

I hadn’t seen my buddy Ernie in a few months since I had visited him at St. Mary’s.  That day Ernie was sipping ice water through a bent straw looking paler than usual – which is something for a guy who spends his free time either in a tavern or a betting parlor.

Hey, did you hear the one about how Gov. Scott Walker wants to kill puppies?

There could not have been a sharper contrast between the tension in Madison and the calm in Washington, D.C.

By now, the political lore is familiar: A major political party, cast aside by Wisconsin voters due to a lengthy…

Can you name the two Midwestern states where the 2012 election battle may be fought the hardest? Two states crazy…

Bring on the New Guard. Last November’s electoral tidal wave not only changed the party alignment in the state Capitol,…

By Charles J. Sykes Everything changed for the better, from politics to sports, in Wisconsin. Winter was the season for…

On Nov. 2, Marco Rubio hadn’t yet been declared the winner of his Florida Senate race before the pundits began…

It’s a shock for some: He means what he says, and he does what he promises by Richard Esenberg Last…

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of…

The lessons from Indiana’s playbookBy Christopher Ruhl After more than six years in office, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has earned…

As is the case with any extended crisis, the Wisconsin stalemate has begun to create its own vernacular.  Previously familiar terms and phrases are used in foreign contexts. 

Elizabeth Coggs, the new Democratic state representative for the 10th Assembly District in Milwaukee, is against the Voter ID proposal because, she told me today, many poorer residents of her central city district don’t have IDs and would be disenfranchised if one is now required to cast a ballot.

Peter Barca, a usually levelheaded Democrat, articulated what has been wrong with state government.

By Stephen F. Hayes On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama won 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties. He won Wisconsin by…

The voters exact vengeance upon the disdainful Democrats. Before the vote on Nov. 2, humorist P.J. O’Rourke quipped that it…

Republicans, not long ago left for dead and scarcely lamented in both Madison and Washington, now find themselves exhumed. Voters…

Dear Gov.-elect Walker (Scott): Welcome back to Madison. While you were busy convincing us to elect you, most Wisconsinites were…