CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Will incompetence be a feature of David Crowley's time as governor? He has already claimed that a $4-million budget mistake in Milwaukee County is no big deal. It's less than one percent of the overall budget. We're told there was a mistake in the way the county's new budgeting software was p...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - There were three amendments to the state constitution on the ballot this week. The one that was voted down was the one that had meaning to people of faith. It asked whether the state should lose its power to close churches and other houses of worship for health emergencies. In other words, if...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) Starting in January, it will be David Crowley's Wisconsin. Conservatives like you are me are just living in it. With majorities in the state assembly and the state senate, Republicans are powerless to stop anything. There's no filibuster. Anything that passes the legislature goes straight to t...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - There was a quaint time, many years ago, that almost anyone could run for political office. Regular, work-a-day citizens of modest means could run for Congress, or for Mayor, or city council, or for the state legislature. You didn't have to be rich. Your candidacy would rise and fall on your...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - If you're a lifelong democrat, something strange has happened. On this Election Day, if you don't gladly accept the far-left, socialist, craziness within your party - you're a disloyal outsider. That's ridiculous. Consider Michigan. Congresswoman Haley Stevens objects to a crazy campaign comm...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - It's happened again. There's another case of a biological male athlete competing against girls. In this case, the high school track and field team that the boy competed with denied a girls team a chance to compete in the state track meet. And this turned a little ugly. The bio-male ran for Ca...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Halloween is tomorrow. So let's spend a moment on whether Christians should partake. I'm certain not everyone will agree. On Halloween, my children and I are not worshiping Satan. My children are worshiping Hershey bars and Peanut Butter cups. So I have no problem with my kids dressing up and...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - My phone started buzzing yesterday as soon as the new Marquette Law School poll came out. It showed David Crowley leading Tom Tiffany, 51-44 percent. I've been asked over and over again, 'do I believe it?' My answer: Isn't this the same poll that had Francesca Hong leading Crowley by 20-point...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - It's certainly been a great baseball season. And soon it will be over. Perhaps for awhile. The conventional wisdom is that there will be a work stoppage as a December 1st. That probably doesn't mean much... it's the middle of the off-season. But if there isn't a new contract in place by Febru...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) Kamala Harris campaigned in Milwaukee yesterday for David Crowley. It's curious that she's here. When she ran for President, she lost Wisconsin. She is still considering whether to run again in 2028, so her personal positions on everything have not changed. She's still a black-lives-matter, de...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - This year's Wausau city budget is the worst of everything. Property taxes are going up, spending is up even more. And the city council's budget review process has made the spending package worse, not better. There are two changes that could have saved money, but won't. First, the city is like...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I am reminded today that the teachings and the salvation of Jesus Christ are for all people in all places. Lately I've been reading my bible, and I've been spending time in Romans - it is Paul's letter to the house churches in Rome - about 30 years after Jesus went to the cross. Romans is an ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I'm never disappointed when people bring issues they care about to local government, and they get their way. That's happened twice this month. Flock cameras are unpopular in Wausau. Local residents don't want to live in a surveillance state. Enough people have spoken up, and the Public Health...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I will tell you a dirty little secret about the train station at Columbus, Wisconsin. It's currently the nearest train station to Madison, which is otherwise disconnected from Amtrak's national route map. If someone from Madison wants to ride, they take a 28-miles bus ride to Columbus to conn...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Donald Trump wants to do some simple, nice things. And, because he is Donald Trump, some people try to block him at every turn. Consider the East Potomac Golf Course. It's a public course, in a public park in Washington DC. Because of security concerns, Trump will never play there. Still, he ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Another round of No Kings rallies took place over the weekend. The rally in Rib Mountain was smaller, but louder. More of the Trump haters were engaging with passing drivers, both for and against. Never mind that these rallies are organized and funded by a tech billionaire who lives in China....

This Friday on Faith originally aired on February 28, 2024 CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I am a big fan of the TV Series 'The Chosen' - it tells the story of Jesus' ministry. There are many scenes that show up in my social media feeds, and I like them so much that I watch them over and over again. It is a marvelous way t...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - In my late, great hometown of New York CIty, there's been a tawdry fight over horse drawn carriage rides in Central Park. They are a favorite for out-of-town tourists in the fall. For $180 you can ride in an ornate horse drawn carriage and see the fall colors in the park for an hour. The hand...

This Conley Commentary was originally aired on July 13, 2026 CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I'm glad to have spent America's 250th birthday on a cross-country train trip. Chicago and St Louis are the two cities that separate the American East from the West. - cities built solely on our nation's commerce. The Great Lakes ar...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - When I say "the American dream", what comes to mind? You probably think of a two-or-three bedroom house in the suburbs, a yard with an oak tree, a white picket fence. People living the American Dream are probably married with two kids and a dog. There are two cars in the garage. The...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - This being an election year, there's a call to make Wisconsin's school funding formula "more fair". Democrat liberals say school funding should be based "on need". That's code for giving even more money to failing school districts. Districts that do the worst job educating...

Here are links to some of the things I'll be talking about on Monday, October 12, 2026 on the WSAU Wisconsin Morning News There will be Packers and Brewers games to autopsy: Packers-Bears: Brewers-Dodgers: Wausau's finances will continue to be a mess into the future: The most interesting story of the weekend: The US,...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I'm a Christian. I consider myself to be a good person. And I'm amazed at how often I fail to do the right thing. A week ago Saturday, I was at the gas station. I was fueling up before doing my errands that morning. I went inside for a coffee. Inside the store, there was someone passed out dr...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I have two television sets in my house: a huge 72-inch big screen. It's in the room that used to be my home office, but is now my bedroom. The other television is in my living room. It's a much smaller TV, but I do most of my watching on it. A few years ago, a friend gave me a nice credenza -...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - If you've watched the TV show Cheers, you know the character Sam Malone. He's a too-young-to-be-retired baseball pitcher whose career ended because of alcoholism. He beat his addiction, and now owns a bar. The Sam Malone character is based on a real person: Sam McDowell. He was a wiz kid pitc...