Why are Johnson and Ryan still downplaying the scandal? Wisconsin GOP Representative Mike Gallagher is one of a handful of Republicans publicly distressed by the Russia-Trump scandal. Other Republicans need to put country before party.

Republicans in the White House and Congress have not tipped their hands on tax reform, other than to say they want corporate and personal income taxes to go south instead of north. Most importantly, they have not expressed themselves on one of the major drivers of the Trump aberration: a middle-class frustration with the inequity on how the nation’s economic pie is split up.

In their latest attack on the eggheads, Wisconsin Republicans have revived Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to force the University of Wisconsin System to keep track of the time professors spend teaching and to reward those “who teach more than a standard academic load.”

The continuously updated Writing in Stone cultural exhibit grasps what we’ve lost. It’s not intended as a political screed, but an art-based reflection on the past with historic use of the term progressive in law, society, science and personalities.

Treating children as adults, especially in violent offenses, may be enticing and appealing to some. But we must try to put emotion and anger aside. If we do, we will recognize that treating children as adults is not only unwise and unjust, it is also often counterproductive if the goal is to prevent the juvenile from re-offending in the future.

Cathy Stepp’s 6½-year tenure as Department of Natural Resources secretary proved that Wisconsin’s natural resources can’t be entrusted to someone serving at the governor’s whim.