OPINION: Dirty business in Wisconsin

There are four things that humans and other animals need to survive: air, water, food and shelter. Without just one of them, we’d perish. That’s why many of us are fighting to protect the quality of our air and water against persistent attacks on them by state and federal GOP legislators.

It hasn’t always been this way. Not long ago, protection of the environment was a bipartisan issue. That’s because it was so easy to see why it needed protection. Back in the ‘60s, studies showed that breathing the air in Chicago and other major cities had the same effects as smoking three packs of cigarettes a day. Gray-green smog coming from smoke stacks blanketed our cities and lowered the quality of life...   ...more

Ken Notes: Some finger pointing here which I try not to do, but I do support to a bipartisan approach to a better environment for our future...