The Republican Congress went back to work for one last session last week.  Picking up right where he left off before the election, Russ Feingold wrote to his fellow Democrats in Congress, urging them to stand strong and block lame duck GOP efforts to pass unfunded tax cuts and unwarranted wiretapping.  The Feingold essay, published at huffingtonpost.com, elicited cheers and thank you's, [...]

The horses just kept coming. The rate of pay for a janitor in oil-rich Houston’s business district is $5.15 an hour — $20 a day – a wage that would be illegal in Wisconsin, where a janitor in downtown Milwaukee starts at nearly double the Houston wage.  Oil giant Chevron, downtown Houston’s corporate leader, posted [...]

I heard the strangest thing on the news last night. Apparently, Harley-Davidson workers are voting again today on the company's plans to expand in the Milwaukee area and create 120 new jobs. I was confused. When Mark Green ran for governor, he told me that Gov. Jim Doyle had chased those jobs out of state. [...]

The nation's leading critic of  Bush Administration domestic conduct in the war on terror, and the first U.S. Senator to propose a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq, walked away from the 2008 presidential race this weekend. Let's hope the conscience and common sense of the national Democratic Party did not walk out of [...]

"Marriage. Shall section 13 of article XIII of the constitution be created to provide that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state and that a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid [...]

Donald Holt, the Republican candidate for Milwaukee County sheriff, doesn't believe in pointing fingers. It's not his style. But he sees what many observers say are major problems facing law enforcement in Milwaukee: A lack of coordination and a void in leadership. “I think we can cooperate better as law enforcement agencies,” Holt said in [...]