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Happily, within Wisconsin, we are inching back toward being the inclusive, compassionate, and even-handed state we once were.
This election doesn’t mean that voters have turned on Trump. It also isn’t really a referendum on him. It’s a statement that liberal voters are enraged at Trump, and it’s a referendum on how Democrats feel about Trump. It was bad timing.
The most important lesson of the 2025 Supreme Court race is that voters can stand up to the mind-boggling spree of destruction by MAGA nihilists.
We prefer to think of Tuesday, April 1, 2025 as a wake-up call, not a death knell.
Ask yourself if abortion were not an issue in the spring election, if a liberal Dane County judge would have won statewide with a 10% margin of absolute victory? That is the problem Wisconsin Republicans need to address.
Beyond the names on the ballot, who else won or lost in Tuesday’s election?
Reed conveyed the subtle art of de-escalation as a member of the Milwaukee Commandos, navigating tense situations with a calm and composed demeanor.
We cannot make Wisconsin the most restrictive boating state in the country. These patchwork regulations create confusion and confrontation.
The Budget Blog is available to WisPolitics subscribers on the State Affairs Wisconsin platform. To read, visit here and log in with your WisPolitics subscription email address.
The Trump administration’s tariffs have been front-and-center at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show in Germany, where state officials and Wisconsin businesses are visiting this week as part of a WEDC trade mission. That’s according to Missy Hughes, secretary and
Wisconsin has thrown that concept aside. Shameful, and against the public interest.
Tech billionaire made the election a referendum on Trump’s second term — and lost bigly.
What did we learn from last night’s results?
For all the deranged loathing of Donald Trump, it somehow seems the left hates Elon Musk even more!
Wisconsin’s state agencies’ performance is dismal according to their own metrics, but lawmakers on JFC missed their big opportunity to make the heads of those agencies answer for it.
Courts and carceral institutions must have standardized, reliable systems for recording, analyzing, and reporting data. Wisconsin’s municipal courts must be held to higher standards of transparency, and the state must implement policies that ensure courts are accountable to the communities they serve.
Trump administration’s bizarre sharing of U.S. battle plans involved use of Signal.
Many of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress are running for the hills.
Donald Trump’s reflexive response to the bombshell reporting that his cabinet endangered national security by sharing military secrets via a leaked online chat was utterly predictable. He tried to shoot the messenger.
Financial smarts have been missing in the Trump/Musk blunderbuss approach to getting our deficits and debts under control.
Happily, within Wisconsin, we are inching back toward being the inclusive, compassionate, and even-handed state we once were.
This election doesn’t mean that voters have turned on Trump. It also isn’t really a referendum on him. It’s a statement that liberal voters are enraged at Trump, and it’s a referendum on how Democrats feel about Trump. It was bad timing.
The most important lesson of the 2025 Supreme Court race is that voters can stand up to the mind-boggling spree of destruction by MAGA nihilists.
We prefer to think of Tuesday, April 1, 2025 as a wake-up call, not a death knell.
Ask yourself if abortion were not an issue in the spring election, if a liberal Dane County judge would have won statewide with a 10% margin of absolute victory? That is the problem Wisconsin Republicans need to address.
Beyond the names on the ballot, who else won or lost in Tuesday’s election?
Reed conveyed the subtle art of de-escalation as a member of the Milwaukee Commandos, navigating tense situations with a calm and composed demeanor.
We cannot make Wisconsin the most restrictive boating state in the country. These patchwork regulations create confusion and confrontation.
The Budget Blog is available to WisPolitics subscribers on the State Affairs Wisconsin platform. To read, visit here and log in with your WisPolitics subscription email address.
The Trump administration’s tariffs have been front-and-center at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show in Germany, where state officials and Wisconsin businesses are visiting this week as part of a WEDC trade mission. That’s according to Missy Hughes, secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. In an interview
Wisconsin has thrown that concept aside. Shameful, and against the public interest.
Tech billionaire made the election a referendum on Trump’s second term — and lost bigly.
What did we learn from last night’s results?
For all the deranged loathing of Donald Trump, it somehow seems the left hates Elon Musk even more!
Wisconsin’s state agencies’ performance is dismal according to their own metrics, but lawmakers on JFC missed their big opportunity to make the heads of those agencies answer for it.
Courts and carceral institutions must have standardized, reliable systems for recording, analyzing, and reporting data. Wisconsin’s municipal courts must be held to higher standards of transparency, and the state must implement policies that ensure courts are accountable to the communities they serve.
Trump administration’s bizarre sharing of U.S. battle plans involved use of Signal.
Many of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress are running for the hills.
Donald Trump’s reflexive response to the bombshell reporting that his cabinet endangered national security by sharing military secrets via a leaked online chat was utterly predictable. He tried to shoot the messenger.
Financial smarts have been missing in the Trump/Musk blunderbuss approach to getting our deficits and debts under control.