Bill Barth: Return money to the taxpayers
Try again. Put more money into public schools. Send more aid to cities to reduce property taxes. Temporarily lower gas taxes, or income taxes, or send rebate checks to taxpayers. Fix more potholes. And keep some to build the rainy-day fund.
Mark Belling: Crowley gives laptops to Milwaukee jail inmates who intimidate witnesses
Wisconsin voters, in picking their governor in two months, will decide if they want to elect a leftist so addled that he signed legislation using public money to give laptops and tablets to jail inmates who then used them to intimidate witnesses and view pornography.
Bill Lueders: Let the public copy court records
Court records are among the most important public records we have. Clerks of court should not be making it harder or cost-prohibitive for members of the public to access them.
Jordan Sinz: Innovation in service of students
As students return to school this fall, educators across Wisconsin are focused on a familiar mission: providing every student with the best possible opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed.
Mitchell A. Sobieski: Wisconsin’s brain drain shows how a rural state can produce talent yet struggle to keep it
Wisconsin’s latest brain drain numbers point to a problem that is less dramatic than a population collapse but more durable than a temporary labor-market fluctuation.
Stephen Pluháček and Heidi Bostic: We are having the wrong conversations about AI
Not only are the bodies and the souls of these AI workers being harmed, so is the Earth from which the materials needed to power AI are being extracted.
Bruce Murphy: Milwaukee County Parks has oh so many friends
But so little funding. How did this contradictory, messy situation arise?
Jessica Strand: Milwaukee County’s replacement for the Public Safety Building prioritizes victim-witnesses
The replacement for the Public Safety Building and the renovated Historic Courthouse is being designed with fully separate, secure hallways, so that people in custody move through the building on entirely different paths than victims, witnesses and their families.
Mike McCabe: Mooching us to financial ruin
In the time it takes to read this article, our nation will be some $22 million deeper in debt.
Dave Zweifel: Trump’s chaos is all part of the plan
The administration’s strategy has nothing to do with solving the nation’s problems. Instead it’s a three-pronged approach to distract Americans while it dismantles the government that could address those problems.
James Wigderson: We defeated socialism!
The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ensocialism. No, really.
WED News Summary: Lawmakers to release $10 million from PFAS contamination settlement
TOP STORIES Lawmakers vote to release $10M from PFAS contamination settlement… With almost no discussion,[JFC unanimously] passed the resolution Sept. 1 to allow [DNR] access to the funding [from Tyco settlement of DOJ suit] … DNR [letter] asked the committee
Crowley, Tiffany to meet in Oct. 21 debate
Gubernatorial candidates David Crowley and Tom Tiffany will meet Oct. 21 for a debate hosted by WISN-TV in partnership with WisPolitics-State Affairs, the network announced.
State Treasurer Leiber: State Treasurer Leiber Applauds Court Finding that Milwaukee County Unconstitutionally Diverted Millions from the Common School Fund
Madison – State Treasurer John Leiber announced his agreement with a court decision today that found the diversion of millions of dollars from the Common School Fund to Milwaukee County was unconstitutional. A Waukesha circuit court today heard arguments on
Van Orden campaign: Coward Cooke DECLINES Debate
LA CROSSE, WI. – Rebecca Cooke declined today an invitation to debate Congressman Derrick Van Orden, despite spending months saying she was eager to debate him. On July 24, Wisconsin Firearm Owners invited both candidates to participate in a one-hour