Dept. of Natural Resources: Accepting applications for Sandhill Learn To Hunt Event
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting applications for the 2024 Learn to Hunt Deer program at Sandhill Wildlife Area. Applications will be accepted through July 1, 2024. Sandhill’s Learn to Hunt workshops combine classroom instruction
U.S. Sen. Baldwin: Makes final pitch to Biden Administration to fund Wisconsin Tech Hub
WISCONSIN – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin met privately with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo to make a final pitch for Wisconsin to be selected for funding for the state’s Biohealth Tech Hub, potentially unlocking up to $75 million to help grow the
Tiffany campaign: Demonstrates strong local support
Minocqua – Congressmen Tom Tiffany (WI-07), collected over 3,800 nomination signatures, more than 2,800 over the minimum needed to appear on the November ballot. This was the highest amount of nomination signatures collected by a candidate seeking a congressional office
Boese campaign: DA candidate responds to Thurston’s donations to John Chisholm
Waukesha County District Attorney candidate Lesli Boese released the following statement on Mike Thurston’s history of donations to Milwaukee DA John Chisholm: Waukesha County residents have seen how soft-on-crime policies are failing Milwaukee, and they expect us to hold people
Tom Kamenick: Officials must bear burden of proof in records cases
Imagine I sue a school district for refusing to provide copies of records. Do I have to prove I’m entitled to them, or does the district have to prove it can withhold them?
Donna Rozar: Overturning Act 10: dire fiscal implications for taxpayers
Thirteen years ago, 2011 Act 10 was signed into law. At that time there was much angst and opposition to this legislation. Without reform, Wisconsin was headed for a $3 billion annual budget deficit. Since then, labor relations in Wisconsin have moved forward in a positive direction and Wisconsin’s Budgets have reflected fiscal responsibility.
James Causey: Time to revive a mayoral takeover at MPS or face a perpetually failing system
Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Keith Posley should be terminated over the district’s failure to submit financial reports to the state, but the repercussions should not end there.
Dept. of Natural Resources: Support walleye research while you fish at Escanaba Lake
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds anglers that after 20 years of limited harvest, Escanaba Lake in the Northern Highland Fishery Research Area will have an open walleye season this year starting on Saturday, June 8. From 2003
David Blaska: Hey progressives! Nobody cares!
Blaska promised to smell the roses. That day came this morning when The Lovely Lisa placed in a slender silver vase (“vahse”) a single pink rose right where your irascible bloggeur could not miss it — that being in front of his battered computer keyboard. Beautiful: the rose, the thought, the wife, my life! Now for today’s angry rant.
Dave Cieslewicz: Defund bail providers
On the evening of February 15, 2023, Stephen Fleck was walking his dog on Schroeder Road on Madison’s Southwest Side. The father of five and Marine Corps veteran, “Steve was known for his towering height, quick wit, intelligent dialogue, lyrical writing, intricate art, philosopher’s mind, and compassionate counselor heart,” according to his obituary.
Gregory Humphrey: Donald Trump’s legal hell is America’s perfect storm we needed to witness
For years some people in New York City who knew Donald Trump said that based on his lack of ethics in both business and his personal life he should not have sought the Republican Party nomination. Trump would not fare well, they said, with every aspect of his life under the microscope.
Ed Delgado: I’m voting for Donald Trump because judicial misconduct is terrifying
My name is Ed Delgado. I am an American. And I will be voting for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America this November. What we have seen today’s guilty verdict in the Trump trial should scare the hell out of every one of us.
David Crowley: Donald Trump puts NRA over Wisconsin lives
Last weekend, Donald Trump spent his limited free time on the trail courting the gun lobby – delivering the keynote speech at the NRA’s annual meeting in Dallas, Texas. This is no surprise.
LaKeshia Myers: Got Hemp: The agricultural goldmine of hemp farming
There has been much discussion recently from some politicians about banning Delta-8 and other hemp products. The concerns arise from rising use of teens getting sick from using too much hemp and mixing it with other substances, for the purpose of intoxication.
Alex Hummel: Oshkosh Civility Project: Want civil AI? We better model the way.
HAL was the artificially intelligent (and authentically diabolical) computer in 1968’s landmark film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Despite his/its programmed politeness, HAL, uh … let’s just say HAL had some flaws.