We’ll visit with Ron Martin, a social studies teacher in Eau Claire who also serves on the executive board of the National Education Association, to get his reaction to a judge overturning Act 10. Also: Nick Ouellette, superintendent of the Hudson school district and Megan Rozowski of the Hudson school board talk about the pressures […]

Congressional Republicans have a dilemma on their hands. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is creating a new generation of jobs nationwide, without regard to who supported him. A lot of “red states” are seeing big benefits. So when President-elect Trump talks about undoing Biden’s investments, these GOP lawmakers find themselves in a bit of a […]

President Biden’s unconditional pardon of his son Hunter has united two groups of people who rarely come together: hypocritical conservatives who didn’t say “boo” about Trump pardoning a Who’s Who of political criminals—and easily-startled progressives who work too hard at trying not to be too supportive of the president who got more done than Democratic […]

Act 10, the 2011 Scott Walker law that stripped away rights from public workers, was always based on a sham premise: that state workers could be fairly divided into two groups, one that would be exempt from losing rights—coincidentally, the same group of unions that endorsed Scott Walker in 2010. The willful blindness of (coincidentally!) […]

Donald Trump and Co. spent the entire year denigrating, dehumanizing, and threatening immigrants. Now that they’ve won with such a divisive message, what’s the plan to address immigration issues without crashing an economy that desperately needs migrant labor to keep running? We’ll talk to the head of a business immigration study group about whether realistic, […]