Craig Gilbert is a journalist who covered Wisconsin politics and policy for The Weekly Standard in the mid-1990s. His contributions to the magazine focused on figures like Governor Tommy Thompson and issues such as school choice. He is known for his long career as a political reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
REP. MARK NEUMANN is a conservative Christian. He's pro-life and anti- homosexuality. He recites the Pledge of Allegiance before press conferences. Righteous, impatient, and indefatigable, he has the headlong stride and self- certain zeal of a man on a mission. But that mission, it turns out, has…
THE FUTURE OF THE NATION'S chief experiment in private-school vouchers is about to be decided in a sleepy spring election where the great mass of voters will simply tune out and stay home. Welcome to the saga of school choice in Milwaukee -- and the funkier side of federalism in the '90s.
BUMMED OUT BY ANOTHER can't-do candidacy, miffed that his "battleground" state got bumped from the battle plan, Tommy Thompson took a stunning home- stretch shot at the top of the ticket. "I thought George Bush's campaign was probably the poorest-run presidential campaign," the governor of…