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For the millions struggling with electoral grief, experts recommend focusing on what you can control.
We’ll focus on the context and impact, not the chaos.
The Wisconsin Technology Council is urging the state’s congressional delegation to push for restoring National Institutes of Health funding and preventing similar cuts from being made elsewhere. After the NIH on Friday announced cuts to grants that help cover indirect
Hospitals in state and metro area have further cut the percent of revenue for this.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘America was given its colored people a bad check, marked ‘insufficient funds.” Do you believe this still holds today?
It was never about DEI. DEI was only the crumbs they allowed us to have, while simultaneously undermining any advancement with harmful policies.
President Trump is fixated on tariffs as an ultimate solution to many problems. Did he and we not learn from his tariff war in his first term that they are often counter-productive on prices and inflation?
The Constitution of the United States makes no mention of “special government employees,” and it certainly does not suggest that they should be able to roll over the Congress in a wholesale effort to turn the federal government into a billionaire’s playground.
Since January 20th, it’s obvious that the Democrats did not learn a thing from the brutal shellacking they received on November 5th, 2024.
Trump may well be justified in dialing back federal spending; the nation has run a deficit every year since 2001 and spending has grown to about 24% of gross domestic product. What’s alarming is that university research seems like a counter-productive place to start.
Liberals hated the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Now those things are among the last lines of defense against an authoritarian state.
Amid the torrent of bad news gushing from Washington like sewage from a busted pipe, there are fragments of good news fluttering around us.
Gov. Tony Evers is slamming federal officials for moving to “yank tens of millions of investments” in EV charging in Wisconsin after the U.S. Department of Transportation suspended approval of state EV infrastructure plans. The guv’s office on Friday said
Teacher turnover varies by pay, seniority and other characteristics.
We need a clear vision and a real plan for addressing the worst-in-the-nation performance of our city’s schools. The time is now for bold leadership, uncompromising vision and collective will to make difficult but necessary changes. Nothing less than Milwaukee’s very future is at stake.
Schimel must tell Musk to stay out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Wisconsin’s future depends on it.
Failure to pass many of the proposals in the Evers budget, or at least reach effective compromises, will only perpetuate the “forever debate” in Wisconsin over the harmful “forever chemicals.”
ate last year a movement started to pass a resolution in the U.S. Senate to recognize this milestone and honor Aldo Leopold’s enduring contributions to conservation. Unfortunately, time ran out before it could pass. But as we enter this new year, I am hopeful that Congress will revisit this resolution and seize the opportunity to officially celebrate Leopold’s life and work.
Those who chose not to vote or cast protest ballots, like “Uncommitted,” may have thought they were sending a message. In reality, they inadvertently enabled policies that harm many of their own constituency base.
Pocan introduced a proposal to maintain transparency and honesty in government spending, which he dubbed the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act.
For the millions struggling with electoral grief, experts recommend focusing on what you can control.
We’ll focus on the context and impact, not the chaos.
The Wisconsin Technology Council is urging the state’s congressional delegation to push for restoring National Institutes of Health funding and preventing similar cuts from being made elsewhere. After the NIH on Friday announced cuts to grants that help cover indirect R&D costs for medical research institutions, the Tech Council sent
Hospitals in state and metro area have further cut the percent of revenue for this.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘America was given its colored people a bad check, marked ‘insufficient funds.” Do you believe this still holds today?
It was never about DEI. DEI was only the crumbs they allowed us to have, while simultaneously undermining any advancement with harmful policies.
President Trump is fixated on tariffs as an ultimate solution to many problems. Did he and we not learn from his tariff war in his first term that they are often counter-productive on prices and inflation?
The Constitution of the United States makes no mention of “special government employees,” and it certainly does not suggest that they should be able to roll over the Congress in a wholesale effort to turn the federal government into a billionaire’s playground.
Since January 20th, it’s obvious that the Democrats did not learn a thing from the brutal shellacking they received on November 5th, 2024.
Trump may well be justified in dialing back federal spending; the nation has run a deficit every year since 2001 and spending has grown to about 24% of gross domestic product. What’s alarming is that university research seems like a counter-productive place to start.
Liberals hated the Supreme Court and the filibuster. Now those things are among the last lines of defense against an authoritarian state.
Amid the torrent of bad news gushing from Washington like sewage from a busted pipe, there are fragments of good news fluttering around us.
Gov. Tony Evers is slamming federal officials for moving to “yank tens of millions of investments” in EV charging in Wisconsin after the U.S. Department of Transportation suspended approval of state EV infrastructure plans. The guv’s office on Friday said the Trump administration is seeking to “retroactively suspend” EV infrastructure
Teacher turnover varies by pay, seniority and other characteristics.
We need a clear vision and a real plan for addressing the worst-in-the-nation performance of our city’s schools. The time is now for bold leadership, uncompromising vision and collective will to make difficult but necessary changes. Nothing less than Milwaukee’s very future is at stake.
Schimel must tell Musk to stay out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Wisconsin’s future depends on it.
Failure to pass many of the proposals in the Evers budget, or at least reach effective compromises, will only perpetuate the “forever debate” in Wisconsin over the harmful “forever chemicals.”
ate last year a movement started to pass a resolution in the U.S. Senate to recognize this milestone and honor Aldo Leopold’s enduring contributions to conservation. Unfortunately, time ran out before it could pass. But as we enter this new year, I am hopeful that Congress will revisit this resolution and seize the opportunity to officially celebrate Leopold’s life and work.
Those who chose not to vote or cast protest ballots, like “Uncommitted,” may have thought they were sending a message. In reality, they inadvertently enabled policies that harm many of their own constituency base.
Pocan introduced a proposal to maintain transparency and honesty in government spending, which he dubbed the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act.