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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislature’s education committees have scheduled a joint hearing next week to take testimony on bills Republican sponsors say would ban critical race theory in K-12 schools
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Groups spent $18 million to lobby the Capitol during the first six months of the year, a slight uptick from the last time a budget was before lawmakers, according to a WisPolitics.com
FluGen is reporting positive results from a “human challenge” study, in which participants were purposefully exposed to a flu virus to test vaccine efficacy. FluGen, based in Madison, is undertaking the study with the support of a $15.4 million Department
Americans must demand transparency from their local officials and ask tough questions about the data they are relying on to back up their public policy choices.
Capitol sources say they are hearing from a growing number of constituents concerned about what could happen to their businesses, their jobs, their liberties in these “delta variant” days.
In absence of government leadership – President Biden and Gov. Evers have tried the soft sell to little avail – big business needs to enter the breach to save the country from another wave of COVID and another recession.
The pandemic put a spotlight on the disparities inherent in our for-profit health care system. There’s no good reason why the richest country on Earth should put a price on people’s health.
17% hike nationally in LGBTQ elected officials in last year, but still a long way to go.
Milwaukee teachers union tries to kill competition … The union representing MPS teachers, successfully blocked a vote by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to approve Milwaukee Excellence’s five-year lease of an MPS building needed to accommodate the school’s growth.
While lawmakers will be busy crisscrossing their districts this month — including visits to farms, hopefully — a number of dairy-related items will be waiting for their return to Washington.
There don’t appear to be any standards left, and if there are, few voters seem to care about them.
Americans are split on increasing the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new national Marquette University Law School Poll. Some Dems have pushed the idea of expanding the court beyond the current configuration of nine
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Americans are split on increasing the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new national Marquette University Law School Poll. Some Dems have pushed
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Legislature’s education committees have scheduled a joint hearing next week to take testimony on bills Republican sponsors say would ban critical race theory in K-12 schools by prohibiting the teaching of race or sex stereotypes. Critical
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Groups spent $18 million to lobby the Capitol during the first six months of the year, a slight uptick from the last time a budget was before lawmakers, according to a WisPolitics.com check of lobbying reports. Though interest groups spent $132,651 more
FluGen is reporting positive results from a “human challenge” study, in which participants were purposefully exposed to a flu virus to test vaccine efficacy. FluGen, based in Madison, is undertaking the study with the support of a $15.4 million Department of Defense grant. Published recently in the Journal of Infectious
Americans must demand transparency from their local officials and ask tough questions about the data they are relying on to back up their public policy choices.
Capitol sources say they are hearing from a growing number of constituents concerned about what could happen to their businesses, their jobs, their liberties in these “delta variant” days.
In absence of government leadership – President Biden and Gov. Evers have tried the soft sell to little avail – big business needs to enter the breach to save the country from another wave of COVID and another recession.
The pandemic put a spotlight on the disparities inherent in our for-profit health care system. There’s no good reason why the richest country on Earth should put a price on people’s health.
17% hike nationally in LGBTQ elected officials in last year, but still a long way to go.
Milwaukee teachers union tries to kill competition … The union representing MPS teachers, successfully blocked a vote by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to approve Milwaukee Excellence’s five-year lease of an MPS building needed to accommodate the school’s growth.
While lawmakers will be busy crisscrossing their districts this month — including visits to farms, hopefully — a number of dairy-related items will be waiting for their return to Washington.
There don’t appear to be any standards left, and if there are, few voters seem to care about them.
Americans are split on increasing the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new national Marquette University Law School Poll. Some Dems have pushed the idea of expanding the court beyond the current configuration of nine justices after Republicans shortly before the November election confirmed Donald
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Americans are split on increasing the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new national Marquette University Law School Poll. Some Dems have pushed the idea of expanding the court beyond the current configuration