Gov. Evers: Calls for conducting operational, instructional audits of Milwaukee Public Schools
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced he is calling for operational and instructional audits of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and is proposing to direct funding to support both audits. The governor’s proposal would be a more comprehensive review than the ongoing MPS audit, which is solely focused on
Dept. of Natural Resources: Announces 2024 turkey season results
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced preliminary totals for the 2024 spring turkey season. Wisconsin turkey hunters registered 50,435 birds this season, making it the fourth-highest spring harvest on record and a 22% increase from the five-year
Boese campaign: DA candidate defends her record against lies from opponent
Waukesha County District Attorney candidate Lesli Boese released the following statement on Mike Thurston’s lies about her trial record: A few days ago my opponent, Mike Thurston, released a statement alleging that I have been lying about my record as
Phil Rocco: One year after a watershed election, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is at the center of the battle for democracy
A year into the new liberal majority, the pace of cases being heard by the Wisconsin Supreme Court has slowed, mammoth cases are being decided, and much more lies ahead. And the clock is ticking.
Patrick McIlheran: DPI says Wisconsin students are now ‘developing’ rather than failing
Bureaucrats apparently don’t want parents to know when their kids can’t read or do math.
David Blaska: Shawshank Wisconsin
It is impossible to overstate the scandal coming out of the Waupun state penitentiary (excuse us) correctional institution.
Melissa Agard: New cannabis products highlight need for regulation
Without legal guardrails, children are at risk of consuming unregulated and untested intoxicating products, and that is a cause for concern.
Rep. Myers: To keynote Jailer Academy graduation
MADISON – Representative LaKeshia Myers (D-Milwaukee) will serve as the keynote speaker at the MATC Jailer Academy graduation on Friday, June 7, 2024. Regarding the event, Myers released the following statement: “I am pleased to have been selected as the
Scott Walker: Freedom must never be taken for granted
Today, we must be vigilant against those seeking to expand their oppressive rule worldwide. Freedom must never be taken for granted – abroad or at home. The conditions that led to the start of World War II could easily happen again. We must never forget history, or we will be doomed to repeat it.
Ruth Conniff: The party of ‘law and order’ is now the party of coddling felons
Republicans in Wisconsin are downright blasé about hosting a nominating convention for a convicted felon just a few days after his sentencing hearing.
Dan O’Donnell: The Scott Walker effect
Common sense would dictate that the absolute worst thing for a presidential campaign would be a criminal conviction of the candidate—let alone a conviction on 34 felony charges—but this is apparently not the case.
Dave Zweifel: Van Orden’s Trump verdict response predictably unhinged
The Badger Project reported this week that our unhinged congressman took to X to compare the judge presiding over Trump’s fraud trial to an obscure Nazi judge, adding that he was “Communist scum” while equating Joe Biden to Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Adolf Hitler.
Jeff Mandell and Scott Thompson: Hold Jim Troupis, Ken Chesebro accountable for Wisconsin fake elector scheme
Nearly four years later, we are still living with the consequences of the Trump campaign’s fake elector scheme. Election denialism and conspiracy theories continue to poison our public life.
Bruce Murphy: Brad Schimel is Mr. Anti-Abortion
Conservative candidate for state Supreme Court a national leader in pushing to ban abortions.
Phil Haslanger: Faith leader on social justice issues had an impact
Rabbi Bonnie Margulis will be leaving Madison later this month to become the interim rabbi at Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, where Rabbi Dena Feingold is retiring after 39 years.