Looking back on 2025

It has been said that good fences make good neighbors. I think this is good sense and hence the state of Wisconsin should erect a fence around several of our adjoining Midwest neighbors. Let’s start with Michigan where the football coach at the University of Michigan stands accused of an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Meanwhile down in Illinois, Governor JB Pritzker has si...

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...