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State bill seeks to punish those that defund police.
Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector.
It’s long past time to erect a Vel Phillips statue on the Square. She should be but the first.
For a decade or more Democrats have been counting on a demographic tsunami to sweep them to a long-term majority. It might just sweep them out to sea instead.
A lot of people got the wind knocked out of their sails when Tom Lyon died last week.
Wisconsin is getting federal support for a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Gov. Tony Evers says. FEMA will coordinate staffing support to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Wisconsin has committed to providing at least 7,000 weekly
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement La Follette School of Public Affairs From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature will be on the floor today. The Assembly plans to take up AB 34. It would require health insurance providers
A new 15-second digital ad from the Dem group Opportunity Wisconsin targets Johnson for his opposition to the COVID stimulus bill. The digital buy is in addition to a $1 million TV campaign the group previously laid down targeting Johnson,
The Democratic National Committee is running a new ad on broadcast TV in Milwaukee that features President Biden touting the COVID-19 bill he signed last week. The ad also will run on national cable, a spokeswoman said. The party also
A Better Wisconsin Together digital ad accuses state superintendent candidate and former Brown Deer Superintendent Deb Kerr of trying to cover up a “financial scandal in her school district.” The narrator in the spot says a district employee overdrew an
The American Federation for Children Action fund spent $56,500 on digital ads opposing Pecatonica School Superintendent Jill Underly, according to its filing with the Ethics Commission. The ad calls Underly the hand-picked candidate of the teachers’ unions. The spot focuses
The answer for real recovery is not more big government. Instead, we need real reform. And we need the courage to fight for it.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides substantial funding to end the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic downturn. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy
The governor signed Act 4 into law, which creates a civil liability exemption for COVID-19 related claims. This is tremendous news for every school, church, employer, organization and entity in our communities.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Over the past several decades, the open government movement has become a powerful force in Wisconsin. Every public official, both right
While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.
We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.
A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.
Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.
State bill seeks to punish those that defund police.
Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector.
It’s long past time to erect a Vel Phillips statue on the Square. She should be but the first.
For a decade or more Democrats have been counting on a demographic tsunami to sweep them to a long-term majority. It might just sweep them out to sea instead.
A lot of people got the wind knocked out of their sails when Tom Lyon died last week.
Wisconsin is getting federal support for a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Gov. Tony Evers says. FEMA will coordinate staffing support to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. Wisconsin has committed to providing at least 7,000 weekly vaccine doses from the state’s allocation for the site. “We
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement La Follette School of Public Affairs From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature will be on the floor today. The Assembly plans to take up AB 34. It would require health insurance providers to cover those with pre-existing conditions if the Affordable Care
A new 15-second digital ad from the Dem group Opportunity Wisconsin targets Johnson for his opposition to the COVID stimulus bill. The digital buy is in addition to a $1 million TV campaign the group previously laid down targeting Johnson, R-Oshkosh. The new digital ad asks if viewers saw the
The Democratic National Committee is running a new ad on broadcast TV in Milwaukee that features President Biden touting the COVID-19 bill he signed last week. The ad also will run on national cable, a spokeswoman said. The party also placed a billboard ad along I-94 in Milwaukee knocking U.S.
A Better Wisconsin Together digital ad accuses state superintendent candidate and former Brown Deer Superintendent Deb Kerr of trying to cover up a “financial scandal in her school district.” The narrator in the spot says a district employee overdrew an account by half a million dollars, costing taxpayers $130,000. Instead
The American Federation for Children Action fund spent $56,500 on digital ads opposing Pecatonica School Superintendent Jill Underly, according to its filing with the Ethics Commission. The ad calls Underly the hand-picked candidate of the teachers’ unions. The spot focuses on schools not being open to in-person instruction with the
The answer for real recovery is not more big government. Instead, we need real reform. And we need the courage to fight for it.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides substantial funding to end the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic downturn. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin said: “The fact that Wisconsin Republicans in the House
The governor signed Act 4 into law, which creates a civil liability exemption for COVID-19 related claims. This is tremendous news for every school, church, employer, organization and entity in our communities.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Over the past several decades, the open government movement has become a powerful force in Wisconsin. Every public official, both right and left, is committed to “letting the sun shine in.”
While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.
We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.
A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.
Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.