| Mar 4, 2015 | Economy / BusinessI live in Chicago, a city of dramatic skylines and gleaming office towers for titans of business and finance. My state of Illinois is home to 17 billionaires, and our downstate farmers are the country’s second-largest corn and soybean producers. And yet new Illinois...
| Feb 11, 2015 | Food / Farming“Has nobody in this bleeping town heard of a kale salad?” I wanted to scream. That’s the anguish of a Californian convert transplanted to Wisconsin in the dead of winter. As I remind anyone who tries to assure me that Madison is a lovely town and Wisconsin...
| Oct 22, 2014 | Rights / DemocracySupporters of the right to vote just suffered a huge setback. On October 9, voter ID laws that could have disenfranchised nearly a million voters in Wisconsin and Texas were ruled unconstitutional. The timing of these rulings — one by a Supreme Court majority and the...
| Sep 10, 2014 | Environment / HealthDid you see the baseball movie Field of Dreams? Even if you didn’t, you’ve probably heard the phrase “If you build it, they will come” — which it immortalized. Well, how about “If you don’t build it, they won’t come”?...
| Jul 1, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyScott Walker can’t seem to run a clean campaign. He first won the governorship of Wisconsin in 2010 from his position as Milwaukee County executive. It turns out that some of his aides at the county job were doing campaign work for him on the taxpayers’...
