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Ninety years ago, too many people under increasingly autocratic rule stopped caring about the truth.
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Ninety years ago, too many people under increasingly autocratic rule stopped caring about the truth.

A Gov. Tony Evers budget plan aims to protect innocent landowners from being put on the hook for PFAS contamination — termed a “good start” by one GOP senator spearheading legislation to combat “forever chemicals.” Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature

The majority party instead vows an income tax cut.

In 2018, a large competitive project was authorized by MISO, put up for competitive bidding, awarded to the winning bidder, and then denied to the awardee because of the successful passing of a state ROFR law.

By effectively sidelining alternative bidders, the legislation can lead to less favorable terms for consumers and impede the entry of new technology and practices that could emerge from a more open and competitive bidding process.

The issue in the case cuts to the heart of democracy: Does a school board need to be transparent to the public when conducting public business?

The troubling words by Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Schimel about the female justices on the Supreme Court concern me on several fronts.

The proposed DNR budget needs to be thoroughly deconstructed, and then the agency’s internal scientific regime, especially its corrupt so-called scientific integrity policy, needs to be scrapped.

As we welcome the month of March, we acknowledge National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to recognize the contributions, struggles, and rights of the millions of Americans living with developmental disabilities.

GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

Trump and Vance in a calculated “mob hit” berated, slandered and humiliated Zelensky before the press and abandoned Ukraine to Putin.

Trump and Vance lost control of their emotions, played to their MAGA base and shattered the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, and possibly Europe, by ambushing Zelenskyy.

President Trump shocked U.S. allies, not to mention many Americans, when he called Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections” who “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

Governor talks of new 9.8% top rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to fix Wisconsin’s penal institutions has a chance.

Gov. Tony Evers is making Wisconsin a national embarrassment after including language in his state budget proposal that changes the definition of mother to inseminated person.

As a survivor of multiple cancers, I’m proud that we just launched our third cohort of 15 UWM undergraduates studying cancer with faculty mentors at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Gas power plants, in addition to emitting greenhouse gases, pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

The law would also require Wisconsin’s transmission owning companies to competitively bid out every aspect of the construction process for every covered project.

Lies come so fast that it feels impossible for the press to push back on them all, which is the point.

Ninety years ago, too many people under increasingly autocratic rule stopped caring about the truth.

A Gov. Tony Evers budget plan aims to protect innocent landowners from being put on the hook for PFAS contamination — termed a “good start” by one GOP senator spearheading legislation to combat “forever chemicals.” Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature have clashed over proposals to spend the $125 million set

The majority party instead vows an income tax cut.

In 2018, a large competitive project was authorized by MISO, put up for competitive bidding, awarded to the winning bidder, and then denied to the awardee because of the successful passing of a state ROFR law.

By effectively sidelining alternative bidders, the legislation can lead to less favorable terms for consumers and impede the entry of new technology and practices that could emerge from a more open and competitive bidding process.

The issue in the case cuts to the heart of democracy: Does a school board need to be transparent to the public when conducting public business?

The troubling words by Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Schimel about the female justices on the Supreme Court concern me on several fronts.

The proposed DNR budget needs to be thoroughly deconstructed, and then the agency’s internal scientific regime, especially its corrupt so-called scientific integrity policy, needs to be scrapped.

As we welcome the month of March, we acknowledge National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to recognize the contributions, struggles, and rights of the millions of Americans living with developmental disabilities.

GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.

Trump and Vance in a calculated “mob hit” berated, slandered and humiliated Zelensky before the press and abandoned Ukraine to Putin.

Trump and Vance lost control of their emotions, played to their MAGA base and shattered the U.S. relationship with Ukraine, and possibly Europe, by ambushing Zelenskyy.

President Trump shocked U.S. allies, not to mention many Americans, when he called Ukrainian President Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections” who “better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

Governor talks of new 9.8% top rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to fix Wisconsin’s penal institutions has a chance.

Gov. Tony Evers is making Wisconsin a national embarrassment after including language in his state budget proposal that changes the definition of mother to inseminated person.

As a survivor of multiple cancers, I’m proud that we just launched our third cohort of 15 UWM undergraduates studying cancer with faculty mentors at the Medical College of Wisconsin

Gas power plants, in addition to emitting greenhouse gases, pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and volatile organic compounds.

The law would also require Wisconsin’s transmission owning companies to competitively bid out every aspect of the construction process for every covered project.

Lies come so fast that it feels impossible for the press to push back on them all, which is the point.