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BY MIKE NICHOLS | Dec. 15, 2014 Many years ago, after taking a job as a young reporter at the old…

In 2012, Democratic candidates successfully sold the narrative that Republicans were waging a war against American women. Consequently, exit polls found a significant gender gap.

Wisconsinites need to get used to the idea of electronic tolls on our freeways. It’s a free-market solution to an overwhelming problem: lack of cash to pay for modestly modern highways.

The headline in late October was a shocker: “Wisconsin business taxes rank 43rd”  — seventh worst in the country.

I’m not wealthy, but I’m working on it.

By now, there’s enough mythology surrounding the patterns and trends exhibited by the millennial generation to overwhelm any researcher.

It’s amazing, the things we get worked up about — and the things we don’t.

Can we please stop using the word “outsourcing”?

Male students are so outnumbered on our nation’s campuses that it’s worth considering who really controls the dynamics of day-to-day life.

To end gun violence in our inner cities, we need to stop focusing on the guns. Guns are only a symptom of a larger and more insidious disease.

Who’s really listening to all the talk about jobs in Wisconsin?

Recently I celebrated Father’s Day with my wife and two small children. A day specifically to celebrate what we bring to the table as men and fathers is a wonderful gift.

As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported, on June 24 the U.S. Department of Education announced the creation of a new accountability framework for special needs students.

Milwaukee and some of its unheralded community groups and violence-fighting programs hold “the key to changing this country,” according to Robert Woodson Sr., one of America’s most influential and outspoken voices on welfare myths and finding new ways to combat poverty.  

Wisconsin news media are focused on the “sluggish” statewide, private-sector job growth numbers that are a little more than half…

It’s hard to find anyone in Kenosha or Racine counties these days who doesn’t support the construction of an $808 million Hard Rock casino on the site of the now-defunct Dairyland Greyhound Park

Will Mary Burke be the Democrats’ next Patrick Lucey?

The last thing Wisconsin and the WIAA need are state lawmakers or the governor (of either party) calling the shots in high school sports.

When I received the call from one of Rep. Paul Ryan’s aides just six weeks before the close of the…

Everybody who cares about their kids has to also start caring enough to educate the Milwaukee School Board as it looks for a new superintendent.