This week's Conley Commentaries are about back-to-school. If you know someone school age, please share these with them. CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Here is a depressing back-to-school statistic. Last year there were 159 school shooting incidents around the country. Most of the incidents have something in common. The sho...

The remaining Conley Commentaries this week are about back to school. If you know someone school age, please share these with them. CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - One of the most important non-academic lessons to learn in school is making friends. For the younger kids in grade school, it's easy but still requires some cour...

The remaining Conley Commentaries this week are about back to school. If you know someone school age, please share these with them. CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - No one promised you everything would be easy at school. Some subjects are hard. For me: math, and science classes that involved math. So, what should you do if y...

The remaining Conley Commentaries this week are about back to school. If you know someone of school-age, please share these with them. CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I should have followed my own advice. I didn't work as hard as I should have academically in school, both in high school and college. I could have learned mor...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Democrats dream of making Washington DC and Puerto Rico the 51st and 52nd states. Both have many more democrat voters than republicans. The donkeys hope for four more red senators in perpetuity. Washington DC is a non-starter. Everyone knows it's a city, and there are reasons why our governme...

Today's Friday on Faith is airing on Thursday; I'm off on Friday CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - At my bible study last week, one of the women said something that I'd never heard before. She said "Jesus has always been about relationships, not rules." I thought her observation was extraordinary; something I'd neve...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - The college football season will be starting soon... and I enjoy college football as much as the next guy. But you can spare me the talk about the "student athletes" on the field. In this day of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) payments, the players are very much employees of the sch...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Kasey Thomasson and her 17-year-old daughter Annie are WNBA fans from Georgia. When Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever came to town, they bought expensive tickets near the court, hoping for a Sophie meet-up during pregame warm-ups. That didn't happen. What did happen wa...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - The first head-to-head poll in the governor's race is out. It shows David Crowley leading Tom Tiffany, 48 to 44 percent. That's within the poll's 4-point margin of error. The numbers come from Badger Battleground polling. The survey involved only 500 likely voters. The poll itself is unremark...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - I heard a sermon earlier this month about Noah's Ark. The story of the ark and the great flood are taylor made for skeptics. Really, 40 days of rain until the entire earth was flooded? Oh really, two of every kind of animal? You know, other religions also have flood stories. Why should we be...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Democrats had breakfast yesterday. There they were, David Crowley, the new nominee for governor. Tony Evers was there. So was Senator Tammy Baldwin and Congressman Mark Pocan. Most importantly, Francesca Hong was there. It was - a unity breakfast to unite the party behind the goal of defeatin...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Today I'm bringing up an unpleasant memory from the Wausau School District. In 2004 Wausau West teacher and girls basketball coach Mitchell King was arrested shortly before the start of a game. He was taken away on charges that he was having a sexual relationship with one of his players. The ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Francesca Hong's moment is coming tonight. It's impossible to image her not winning today's democratic primary. She'll be the lead national news story tomorrow: "Can a socialist win in purple-Wisconsin?" And for those who support her, we haven't even dug into Fran's craziness. You'v...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - The Wausau City Council will consider three new fees as it puts together next year's budget. You and I - the taxpayers - know that fees are just taxes by another name. I've already talked about a wheel tax. Wausau residents already pay $25 more when they register their cars each year. None of...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Today, I'd like to ask for your prayers for something new. My church, The Cross on Grand Avenue in Schofield, is starting a new bible study at the Lincoln Hills youth prison in Lincoln County. The Cross already does jailhouse bible study at the Marathon County jail; separate sessions for the ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - New York City mayor Zohran Mandami made an announcement earlier this week about his proposed city-owned grocery stores. They will offer groceries at a 30-percent discount. So eggs that normally cost 99-cents a dozen will be sold for 69-cents. A large box of corn flakes that retails for $5.99 ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - There is a time at the end of each politician's career when they become irrelevant. Maybe they know they're about to lose the next election. Perhaps they've already lost and are lame ducks. In Tony Ever's case, he's already announced his retirement and all the attention has shifted to those w...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne described the police shooting of Corey Ruiz as a tragedy. I agree. I'm saddened that he was shot and killed by Madison police last month. I see a street thug who was non-compliant with arresting officers. Others see a street execution. The District ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Here is something to remember about radicalized liberals, unreformed socialists, and communists. When it doesn't suit them, they are opposed to law and order. Consider what's happening at the intersection of Williamson and South Baldwin streets in Madison. It's the intersection where Corey R...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Twice this week I've visited a friend in the hospital. He is doing well. I've marveled at how medical technology has moved forward in leaps and bounds. His heart began racing last weekend. He pushed a button and a tiny machine on his chest began recording an EKG. Push another button, and it ...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - Wausau needs some clear thinking on the buildings for its police and fire departments. Some very expensive projects are already out of the starting gate with little or no public comment or awareness. Wausau city leaders are interested in the old UW-Stevens Point building near Marathon Park. I...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mandami campaigned on arresting Isreal's Banjamin Netanyahu and turning him over to stand trial at the International Court in The Hague. Only this month did our federal government give him a reminder about his role in U.S. foreign policy: he has none. B...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) Wausau has debated a wheel tax before. Each time it has been rejected. But like a vampire, a stake needs to be driven through the heart to finally kill it. In 2025 a wheel tax was proposed by Wausau's Department of Public Works. $25 added to each vehicle registration to pay for road maintenanc...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) - There are many anti-police activists in Madison who are trying to turn the shooting death of Corey Ruiz into George Floyd 2.0. Shame on them. The circumstances are not the same. George Floyd was handcuffed and subdued when officer Derek Chovin forced his knee into the back of Floyd's neck. T...

CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) "Behold, I am doing a new thing" sounds like something Jesus would say. He didn't. It's from Isiah. He told the Israelites what the Messiah would be like 800 years before Jesus. And Isiah spoke of a time of exile. Jews wondered aloud if they were indeed God's chosen people, or if the...