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It’s time to set aside hyper-polarization and work to prevent ordinary people from needlessly dying in mass shootings.

An untold number of K-12 students appear to have “fallen off the grid” in Wisconsin during the lost year-plus of virtual education. What are Gov. Tony Evers and the education agency he led for a decade doing about these “ghost kids”?

Even if DeJoy’s slashing and burning does not immediately lead to the dismantlement of the agency, it will do severe harm to the Postal Service, and to the communities that most rely on it.

Wisconsin distilleries Driftless Glen and Wollersheim see opportunity and innovation amid the global pandemic. Baraboo’s Driftless Glen made a conscious effort about four years ago to push its bourbon to off-premise consumption, such as in liquor stores. When the pandemic

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — State Superintendent-elect Jill Underly says she wants to make sure all schools reopen for in-person learning by the fall while pledging to improve math and literacy gaps across

Pecatonica School District Superintendent Jill Underly declared victory in the state superintendent’s race over former Brown Deer School District Superintendent Deb Kerr. With over 96 percent of voting precincts reporting, Underly led Kerr by over 15 points at roughly 57.7

Labor representative Andy Buck is urging the Legislature to take up measures to tackle worker misclassification and payroll fraud. The Joint Task Force on Payroll Fraud and Worker Misclassification submitted its 2021 annual report to Gov. Tony Evers last month.
Gov. Tony Evers’ budget includes some three dozen recommendations from his Climate Change Task Force, including tens of millions of new investments in green jobs, conservation efforts and renewable energy. One of the high-profile items: creating an Office of Environmental

The chancellors of Wisconsin’s top two research universities are pushing for investment in more R&D. “The only way that we stay at the front end of the world economy is by being on the front end in innovation,” UW-Madison Chancellor

Will Madison be ready to help lead a push to at long last get the capital city of Wisconsin connected to the nation’s passenger rail system?

Former state health secretary they hated was success with state vaccine plan, and got picked as Biden’s deputy health secretary.

When civilians and police kill Black people and get away with it, we feel the same sentiments she expressed well over a century ago. The damage does not go away after the trial or non-trial. It lingers for weeks, months, years decades and centuries in our collective memories and leads to generational trauma.

If MLB is determined to give in to the hysteria and move the All-Star game, and if it is still planned to honor Aaron, let’s bring the game to Milwaukee.

Is hybrid homeschooling the future of education?

We need to lower the temperature on rhetoric about voting. One side falsely claims wide spread voter fraud while the other charges that some election law changes are, “the new Jim Crow.” Neither accusation holds up under scrutiny.

It’s time to set aside hyper-polarization and work to prevent ordinary people from needlessly dying in mass shootings.

An untold number of K-12 students appear to have “fallen off the grid” in Wisconsin during the lost year-plus of virtual education. What are Gov. Tony Evers and the education agency he led for a decade doing about these “ghost kids”?

Even if DeJoy’s slashing and burning does not immediately lead to the dismantlement of the agency, it will do severe harm to the Postal Service, and to the communities that most rely on it.

Wisconsin distilleries Driftless Glen and Wollersheim see opportunity and innovation amid the global pandemic. Baraboo’s Driftless Glen made a conscious effort about four years ago to push its bourbon to off-premise consumption, such as in liquor stores. When the pandemic hit, that decision paid off with 2020 wholesales surpassing those

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — State Superintendent-elect Jill Underly says she wants to make sure all schools reopen for in-person learning by the fall while pledging to improve math and literacy gaps across the state. “Wisconsin’s kids and public schools face significant challenges

Pecatonica School District Superintendent Jill Underly declared victory in the state superintendent’s race over former Brown Deer School District Superintendent Deb Kerr. With over 96 percent of voting precincts reporting, Underly led Kerr by over 15 points at roughly 57.7 percent to Kerr’s 42.3 percent. During a virtual event, Underly

Labor representative Andy Buck is urging the Legislature to take up measures to tackle worker misclassification and payroll fraud. The Joint Task Force on Payroll Fraud and Worker Misclassification submitted its 2021 annual report to Gov. Tony Evers last month. Worker misclassification is illegally labeling employees as independent contractors in
Gov. Tony Evers’ budget includes some three dozen recommendations from his Climate Change Task Force, including tens of millions of new investments in green jobs, conservation efforts and renewable energy. One of the high-profile items: creating an Office of Environmental Justice within the Department of Administration to coordinate state efforts

The chancellors of Wisconsin’s top two research universities are pushing for investment in more R&D. “The only way that we stay at the front end of the world economy is by being on the front end in innovation,” UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said, adding that other countries in key tech

Will Madison be ready to help lead a push to at long last get the capital city of Wisconsin connected to the nation’s passenger rail system?

Former state health secretary they hated was success with state vaccine plan, and got picked as Biden’s deputy health secretary.

When civilians and police kill Black people and get away with it, we feel the same sentiments she expressed well over a century ago. The damage does not go away after the trial or non-trial. It lingers for weeks, months, years decades and centuries in our collective memories and leads to generational trauma.

If MLB is determined to give in to the hysteria and move the All-Star game, and if it is still planned to honor Aaron, let’s bring the game to Milwaukee.

Is hybrid homeschooling the future of education?

We need to lower the temperature on rhetoric about voting. One side falsely claims wide spread voter fraud while the other charges that some election law changes are, “the new Jim Crow.” Neither accusation holds up under scrutiny.