Is Wisconsin crying wolf too many times?
Wolves in Minnesota and Wisconsin have gone from being protected as an endangered species into the gun sights of hunters
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Doug Hissom writes a weekly environmental column for Baltimore Post-Examiner. He has covered local and state politics in Wisconsin for more than 20 years. Over the course of that time he was publisher, editor, news editor, managing editor and senior writer at the Shepherd Express weekly paper in Milwaukee. He also covered education and environmental issues extensively. He ran the UWM Post in the mid-1980s, winning a Society of Professional Journalists award as best non-daily college newspaper. An avid outdoors person he regularly takes extended paddling trips in the wilderness, preferring the hinterlands of northern Canada and Alaska. After a bet with a bunch of sailors, he paddled across Lake Michigan in a canoe.
Author: Doug Hissom
Pollution shuts down beaches in record numbers
For millions of Americans this past week, one of the few options to keep from baking in the heat wave
Read moreWhere’s the federal oversight concerning Enbridge Energy?
An oil pipeline company responsible for the largest oil spill on United States soil wants to double the capacity of
Read moreGetaway to Mexico’s ruins and beauty
“That sounds like the wind,” said my companion, overlooking a moon-lit courtyard that included a quarter-mile long winding blue pool
Read moreGreat Lakes water diversion
The first proposed diversion of Great Lakes water since the historic Great Lakes Water Resources Compact was approved is trying
Read moreWill Milwaukee follow Tea Party hysteria and ban fluoridated water?
Adding fluoride to the water supply at times has been the height of debate in this country since its use
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Tea Party Express wins it for Scott Walker
That was fun. After the smoke cleared, Wisconsin’s historic venture to the recall polls in June ended as it had
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Gov. Scott Walker’s ‘fracked up’ environmental record mirrors Tea Party
Unions and the Democratic Party started the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker when the governor gutted collective bargaining laws
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Sand mining coming to a town near you
The state of Wisconsin is no longer a hot bed for metallic sulfide mining, having its Legislature kill a bill
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What’s so bad about spearfishing?
Spearfishing season in northern Wisconsin wrapped up this week and, as it has for the most part in the past
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