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The once powerful lobby that has played kingmaker in so many state and national elections, helping elect politicians who would steamroll grieving parents of murdered school children and survivors of mass shootings begging for help, is now on the ropes.
Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald are asking for your money to prevent President Joe Biden from doing to America what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela. No, really. We can’t make this stuff up.
Republicans are running scared, not only in Wisconsin, but throughout the country. As a futurist, I know the reason. It is demographics.
Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives did not have a fast-enough horse to out-run the majority of GOP congressmen, including all five from Wisconsin, who wanted to shut her up as she consistently challenged former President Trump and his Big Lie that the November election was stolen from him.
Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport is seeing travel bounce back after the pandemic year. Airport traffic is up year to year, and leisure travelers are leading the comeback, said Brian Dranzik, airport director. In an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” produced
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has tapped former Jefferson County Judge David Wambach for the Ethics Commission at the suggestion of GOP legislative leaders. If confirmed, Wambach would fill the vacancy
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Capital Times’ Briana Reilly discuss GOP efforts to end enhanced unemployment payments and reinstate work-search requirements, the Joint Finance committee delaying action on broadband funding in the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session on Medicaid expansion and more.
The Joint Committee on Finance voted to continue a $1.5 million addition to the Department of Tourism’s base budget over the next biennium. Acting Secretary Anne Sayers said that money will go toward new markets to remain competitive with other
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.
The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.
We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.
Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?
A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
The once powerful lobby that has played kingmaker in so many state and national elections, helping elect politicians who would steamroll grieving parents of murdered school children and survivors of mass shootings begging for help, is now on the ropes.
Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald are asking for your money to prevent President Joe Biden from doing to America what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela. No, really. We can’t make this stuff up.
Republicans are running scared, not only in Wisconsin, but throughout the country. As a futurist, I know the reason. It is demographics.
Liz Cheney, the third ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives did not have a fast-enough horse to out-run the majority of GOP congressmen, including all five from Wisconsin, who wanted to shut her up as she consistently challenged former President Trump and his Big Lie that the November election was stolen from him.
Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport is seeing travel bounce back after the pandemic year. Airport traffic is up year to year, and leisure travelers are leading the comeback, said Brian Dranzik, airport director. In an interview aired Sunday on “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com, Dranzik said business travel also is
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement AARP Wisconsin From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Tony Evers has tapped former Jefferson County Judge David Wambach for the Ethics Commission at the suggestion of GOP legislative leaders. If confirmed, Wambach would fill the vacancy left by the expiration of former Waukesha County Judge Mac
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and the Capital Times’ Briana Reilly discuss GOP efforts to end enhanced unemployment payments and reinstate work-search requirements, the Joint Finance committee delaying action on broadband funding in the state budget, Gov. Tony Evers’ call for a special session on Medicaid expansion and more.
The Joint Committee on Finance voted to continue a $1.5 million addition to the Department of Tourism’s base budget over the next biennium. Acting Secretary Anne Sayers said that money will go toward new markets to remain competitive with other Midwest states. Tourism is in double the markets it was
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider policy shifts in state agencies as Gov. Tony Evers gains control of boards governing the DNR, the UW System and Department of Ag Trade and Consumer Protection.
The Biden administration is working to reassert the government’s top consumer watchdog just as the U.S. economy is showing signs of a solid recovery.
We want our leaders to defend America. To stand up, unabashedly, for its inherent goodness. To provide optimistic leadership that will spur us on to success. To unite us as Americans.
Why are so many people—including those who have been fully vaccinated—still obsessively wearing masks when the science says they don’t need to?
A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.