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Deer farms will continue to be subject to additional fencing requirements under a new emergency rule aimed at curbing chronic wasting disease after lawmakers declined to undo the provision. But members of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules

Polls from all sources over the past months have underscored the dread, and even alarm that voters are feeling about tariffs. The tariffs that the Trump White House have placed on a number of products ranging across many countries have not only made headlines, but for some companies created shaky bottom lines.

Because the GOP has cast its lot so thoroughly with Trump, he has succeeded in a remarkably short period in moving the window of acceptability in our politics, especially on the right. As a result, the rules of the game have changed in ways that are still hard to grasp, as conservatives accept behaviors and ideological shifts that would have been unacceptable a few years ago.

The attorney general of Wisconsin is an all-in Trump man who refers to his office as “a strong partner” with the Trump administration.

In the interests of Wisconsin’s “homeland security,” our governor should demand that all Wisconsin Guard members remain in Wisconsin.

While the UW’s leadership is working to solve the perennial diversity problem with ambitious and expensive recruitment programs, there are many smaller efforts that go unnoticed, but might just turn out to be as effective in the long run.

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Ford came across as credible, emphatic and “nobody’s pawn”. Kavanaugh’s denial was fiery, partisan and unhinged. Gone was any pretense of judicial demeanor.

Could political reforms improve the state and national political system?


Deer farms will continue to be subject to additional fencing requirements under a new emergency rule aimed at curbing chronic wasting disease after lawmakers declined to undo the provision. But members of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules opted to nix another set of requirements under the Department

Polls from all sources over the past months have underscored the dread, and even alarm that voters are feeling about tariffs. The tariffs that the Trump White House have placed on a number of products ranging across many countries have not only made headlines, but for some companies created shaky bottom lines.

Because the GOP has cast its lot so thoroughly with Trump, he has succeeded in a remarkably short period in moving the window of acceptability in our politics, especially on the right. As a result, the rules of the game have changed in ways that are still hard to grasp, as conservatives accept behaviors and ideological shifts that would have been unacceptable a few years ago.

The attorney general of Wisconsin is an all-in Trump man who refers to his office as “a strong partner” with the Trump administration.

In the interests of Wisconsin’s “homeland security,” our governor should demand that all Wisconsin Guard members remain in Wisconsin.

While the UW’s leadership is working to solve the perennial diversity problem with ambitious and expensive recruitment programs, there are many smaller efforts that go unnoticed, but might just turn out to be as effective in the long run.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — Scott Walker’s latest TV ad features a woman who says the guv has made it easier to stay in her home thanks to a property tax bill that’s lower than it was eight years ago. It’s the second
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Wisconsin Next, the super PAC backing Republican Leah Vukmir for the U.S. Senate, is putting another $450,000 into TV ads hitting U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, according to a filing with the FEC. That pushes the PAC’s spending in the Senate race

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Ford came across as credible, emphatic and “nobody’s pawn”. Kavanaugh’s denial was fiery, partisan and unhinged. Gone was any pretense of judicial demeanor.

Could political reforms improve the state and national political system?