Opinion

Are you concerned about losing healthcare coverage for yourself, your family or your employees?  Or are you forced to delay needed care because you simply can’t afford it?

You are not alone. An estimated 270,000 Wisconsinites will lose their healthcare coverage because of the Budget Reconciliation Act signed into law in July.

Forty bats in twenty minutes, all while the crickets sang. It was a lovely evening. It is getting dark so early now that the bats start swooping out before eight o'clock. I haven't been able to count the bats until now because I was too busy counting mosquitoes! Thankfully, the cooler evenings have reduced the swarm.

Back in 1956 I had graduated high school and spent a year working a number of jobs, each one a bit worse than the one before. Obviously, my high school diploma wasn’t opening the right doors. I needed a college education.

In this country we are slowly, methodically being silenced.

When politicians complain about waste and fraud in government it is ridiculous that they only talk about programs they disagree with. President Trump likely spent over $2,000,000 to deploy the B2 bomber from Whitemnam AFB, Missouri to JBER, Alaska.

As electricity demand in the U.S. continues to grow, modernizing the transmission system is critical to ensure long-term grid reliability while expanding access to low-cost energy resources like wind, solar, and storage.

In my line of work, I must sometimes interact with birdwatchers. Also known as ornithological enthusiasts, extraordinarily celibate adults, or simply “nerds,” these people spend their free time watching the skies and cataloguing every species of bird they see up there.

Ah, September, such a lovely month. Hot? Cold? Windy? Rainy? You just never know what you’re going to get any time of year but in September, it’s even crazier. The best part about September is that fall is upon us.