We applaud Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to restore funding for Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screenings, although we'd like more clarity on its future funding plans. We also support the resignation of Karen Handel, the Komen...

We've heard it said time and time again, and it rings true every time: A healthy local economy requires a healthy local transit system. Unfortunately, local and state leaders have chosen to ignore this fact for years. And it has to stop, now. The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) has survived on fumes for too long. Because it lacks a dedicated...

What's the difference between a tax and a fee? And when is a “raid” a “lapse”? Gov. Scott Walker's administration is counting on Wisconsinites to be so confused about taxes, fees and lapses that they'll never figure out that professionals are being robbed so that Walker's budget balances...

While Wisconsinites are rightly focused on the recalls of Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and a handful of Republican state senators, the reasons for recalling state Supreme Court...

So why is Wisconsin losing jobs month after month while most of the rest of the nation is beginning to slowly grow their job base? A big part of the problem comes from the Scott Walker-Chris Abele thinking that...

Let's “put our differences aside and move forward together,” Tonette Walker urges in a “holiday spirit” ad featuring the first family of Wisconsin. But the warm-and-fuzzy 30-second spot isn't intended to remind Wisconsinites that...

While the rest of the world is expanding voting rights, Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislative majority in Wisconsin have worked hard to shrink them for state citizens—including those who have voted in the past. But two new lawsuits filed last week, in addition to one filed in October by the League...

It’s no secret that Gov. Scott Walker has been...

620 WTMJ doesn't own the airwaves. It rents a frequency from the public, which owns the airwaves. WTMJ's broadcast license is a privilege, not a right. That's why...

On the campaign trail last year, then-candidate Scott Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs in his first term as governor. Many voters believed he could do it. One year later, it's plain to see that Walker has failed Wisconsin. His assault on middle-class families—whether they're employed in the public or private sector—isn't encouraging...

In the past few weeks we've heard all kinds of opposition to the recalls of Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state senators. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continued to provide aid and comfort to Walker's flagging career by denouncing the recalls as being about one issue—once again showing that the editorial board is completely out of touch with the majority of Wisconsin residents...

On Tuesday, the majority of the 16-member Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) staged a coup: They gutted the independence of the nonpartisan...

Is it really too much to ask that those carrying concealed weapons take a four-hour training course? Mind you, that course doesn't have to be hands-on. The course isn't required to have a standard curriculum. And it doesn't require the student to pass a practical exam...

If Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature truly wanted to help Wisconsin's struggling families, they would reduce the high cost of health care. Instead, unfortunately, they're doing all they can to ensure that insurance...

Since the state's inception, Wisconsin's lawmakers have expanded and protected the right to vote. But that all changed this year, when Gov. Scott Walker and his allies in the state Legislature...

How low will the Republicans go to hang on to their power? First they busted public employee unions in an effort to hamper their political advocacy work. Then they passed one of the most repressive voter...

If you are part of the 99%, then you know exactly why you should participate in the global day of protest on Oct. 15. You're sick of escalating income inequality, huge spikes in corporate CEO pay, and the gutting of the social contract...

Last week Gov. Scott Walker announced his new jobs bill, along with a special session of the state Legislature in which to fast-track it. But don't be fooled by Walker's sudden concern...

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has faced some challenging city budgets. The 2008 financial collapse had a huge negative impact on the...

Doesn't Gov. Scott Walker know how to follow his own rules? Or is he so hell-bent on punishing the poor that he feels he can make up the rules as he goes along just so he can make them suffer? Or is he just afraid of public scrutiny?

Back in the 1980s, Rush Limbaugh was just getting his radio career off the ground. In 1984, the conservative pot-stirrer launched his local talk show on Sacramento's KFBK AM station before syndicating his show nationally and becoming...

How do you solve a problem like Michael Gableman? The state Supreme Court justice admitted that he lied in a race-baiting campaign ad that won him the election in 2008. But he got away with it when the majority of justices...

If you relied on the Journal Sentinel's front-page article about the impact of federal health care reform on Wisconsin, you might be worried. According to the article, which dutifully reported on a new study, commissioned by the Doyle...

Yet another dictator is being toppled to expand democracy throughout the Middle East. That's great news. But what about democracy right here...

Is Gov. Scott Walker lonely? At the same time his fellow right-wing buddies like presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are dominating the national news, Walker has gone from the GOP's golden boy to Wisconsin's lonely boy. No longer sought after by the national media...