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Rep. Andrew Hysell is calling on the Wisconsin Grocers Association to “take a stand” against tariffs after the group recently criticized his bill that would require tariff costs to be reflected on large retailers’ receipts. After Hysell, D-Sun Prairie, and
The question in my mind is not if the legislation will happen, but how many people will have to die before enough of us, regardless of political affiliation, demand sensible gun legislation.
The state’s Legislative Audit Bureau released last week its long-awaited audit of the state Department of Natural Resources’s Fish & Wildlife account, and, for those who bothered to read it, it was nothing short of eye-popping.
Republicans insist lakes are not human: ‘We need to be protecting the rights of people, not things’
From smallpox to polio to COVID-19, vaccination campaigns have averted millions of deaths and spared generations from suffering.
New proposal shows how targeted policies could slash poverty in Milwaukee and U.S.
Milwaukee may never fully understand the extent of the floods’ devastation, but we do know that at least three men are unaccounted for. We need to find them.
Van Orden is not doing his job. Veterans deserve much better.
When Trump tells congressional Republicans to jump, they all ask how high, no matter the issue.
Schoemann and Berrien are following a president as he takes wrong turns on the major issues facing the country.
The refusal of the Trump Administration to address the overwhelming number of guns on the streets of Chicago is proof that what is about to happen is a racially divisive, partisan scheme, and has nothing to do with stopping crimes.
Almost 60,000 students take part in Wisconsin’s private school choice program that was pioneered in 1990 by the state of Wisconsin.
About 70% of school districts across the state are starting the year with less money in the budget than they got in the last, austerity-level biennial budget deal.
Data and anecdotal evidence show a growing problem with work ethic.
Climate change is directly making our quality of life worse.
GOP leaders told Van Orden to kill the clean energy tax credits to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. And like always, he did exactly what they said.
Speaking your mind could get you arrested in Britain
As we approach America’s 250th birthday next July, Trump scolds the nation’s memory-keepers for dwelling on “how bad slavery was.”
A coalition of progressive political groups and workers is calling on state lawmakers to establish a $20 per hour minimum wage, along with other proposed policy changes around wages in Wisconsin. The Living Wage Coalition was officially launched Tuesday, the
Why she quit the high court race and what it tells us about Wisconsin politics. Wisconsin apartment rentals.
Rep. Andrew Hysell is calling on the Wisconsin Grocers Association to “take a stand” against tariffs after the group recently criticized his bill that would require tariff costs to be reflected on large retailers’ receipts. After Hysell, D-Sun Prairie, and other Dem lawmakers began circulating the legislation in late August,
The question in my mind is not if the legislation will happen, but how many people will have to die before enough of us, regardless of political affiliation, demand sensible gun legislation.
The state’s Legislative Audit Bureau released last week its long-awaited audit of the state Department of Natural Resources’s Fish & Wildlife account, and, for those who bothered to read it, it was nothing short of eye-popping.
Republicans insist lakes are not human: ‘We need to be protecting the rights of people, not things’
From smallpox to polio to COVID-19, vaccination campaigns have averted millions of deaths and spared generations from suffering.
New proposal shows how targeted policies could slash poverty in Milwaukee and U.S.
Milwaukee may never fully understand the extent of the floods’ devastation, but we do know that at least three men are unaccounted for. We need to find them.
Van Orden is not doing his job. Veterans deserve much better.
When Trump tells congressional Republicans to jump, they all ask how high, no matter the issue.
Schoemann and Berrien are following a president as he takes wrong turns on the major issues facing the country.
The refusal of the Trump Administration to address the overwhelming number of guns on the streets of Chicago is proof that what is about to happen is a racially divisive, partisan scheme, and has nothing to do with stopping crimes.
Almost 60,000 students take part in Wisconsin’s private school choice program that was pioneered in 1990 by the state of Wisconsin.
About 70% of school districts across the state are starting the year with less money in the budget than they got in the last, austerity-level biennial budget deal.
Data and anecdotal evidence show a growing problem with work ethic.
Climate change is directly making our quality of life worse.
GOP leaders told Van Orden to kill the clean energy tax credits to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. And like always, he did exactly what they said.
Speaking your mind could get you arrested in Britain
As we approach America’s 250th birthday next July, Trump scolds the nation’s memory-keepers for dwelling on “how bad slavery was.”
A coalition of progressive political groups and workers is calling on state lawmakers to establish a $20 per hour minimum wage, along with other proposed policy changes around wages in Wisconsin. The Living Wage Coalition was officially launched Tuesday, the day after Labor Day, according to a release. It sent
Why she quit the high court race and what it tells us about Wisconsin politics. Wisconsin apartment rentals.