Calls for fence to keep Wisconsin’s neighbors’ problems out

Just as popular culture personifies the new year as a baby filled with potential about what is new, it also portrays the old year as a grizzled old man, bent with the woes and burdens of the past. Every new year brings with it new challenges, new hopes and new fears. Before stepping boldly into the new year, it is important to pause and look back at the past year. As we start 2026, it is import...

A can of Diet Coke is sitting on my desk. It has been there since early November. I brought it from home with the intention of having it with my lunch that day. Things got busy and I ended up skipping lunch. The uneaten lunch eventually got tossed, but the Diet Coke remained. Every day I look at it. Sometimes I even pick it up, imagining the sharp bite of the carbonation and cola and how a s...

Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan has been convicted by a federal jury of felony obstruction for directing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an undocumented immigrant, toward a back exit when she learned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were waiting in the building. If the conviction is upheld, Dugan faces up to five years in prison. The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign issued a coalition stateme...