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In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.
Income inequality in Wisconsin is declining as lower-wage workers are seeing faster wage growth, according to a recent report from UW-Madison’s High Road Strategy Center. The State of Working Wisconsin 2024 report, released ahead of Labor Day, notes this change
Once again, our state will help determine the next president.
If Harris does, in fact, prevail on Nov. 5, she would become the first woman president in the history of the country, whose top-down influence would likely result in the installation of more and more women as leaders in business, industry and government.
While the right intends to use these attacks as insults, we see them as compliments and aim to reclaim their power.
In an exclusive interview with The Nation, AFSCME President Lee Saunders explains organized labor’s enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket.
Looking at multiple indicators of economic, personal and democratic well-being, it’s clear that unions not only benefit our members, but have a substantial positive effect on our communities more generally.
ut never got organized labor’s endorsement!
Tens of thousands of Republican voters rejected two proposed constitutional amendments that were approved by the Republican-led Wisconsin legislature and supported by every conservative group in the state.
Local governments can support private commuter rail project without breaking the bank.
The 3rd CD needs change and results, not invective. It’s time for first-term U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden to go.
As a part of a bill to increase shared revenue to municipalities and an allowance to institute increased sales taxes, Republicans threw in a caveat that will cost Milwaukee residents an extra 2 million dollars a year. The expense is to return police officers to Milwaukee Public Schools.
Wisconsin’s measuring stick for student performance has been changed. And the categories for student performance have been renamed in, shall we say, kinder, gentler ways.
I will be kicking off back-to-school bus tour in Green Bay to highlight the importance of public schools
Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.
“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”
It is quite curious as to why Chair Jacobs wants to follow the letter of the law now, but not in her past decisions.
Four years ago I posted videos about the conventions as an outsider. This year, I was inside both conventions.
She rips Hovde for ‘conflicts of interest’ while concealing her own.
Attorney, Milwaukee native and Bradley Foundation board member Paul Clement faces questions for his starring role in gun rights.
In the filing, Kennedy’s attorneys argue Wisconsin law inappropriately creates a different standard for third-party candidates because Democrats and Republicans have until 5 p.m. on the first Tuesday in September ahead of an election to certify who their presidential nominee will be.
Income inequality in Wisconsin is declining as lower-wage workers are seeing faster wage growth, according to a recent report from UW-Madison’s High Road Strategy Center. The State of Working Wisconsin 2024 report, released ahead of Labor Day, notes this change marks a “reversal of trends” from the past 40 years
Once again, our state will help determine the next president.
If Harris does, in fact, prevail on Nov. 5, she would become the first woman president in the history of the country, whose top-down influence would likely result in the installation of more and more women as leaders in business, industry and government.
While the right intends to use these attacks as insults, we see them as compliments and aim to reclaim their power.
In an exclusive interview with The Nation, AFSCME President Lee Saunders explains organized labor’s enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket.
Looking at multiple indicators of economic, personal and democratic well-being, it’s clear that unions not only benefit our members, but have a substantial positive effect on our communities more generally.
ut never got organized labor’s endorsement!
Tens of thousands of Republican voters rejected two proposed constitutional amendments that were approved by the Republican-led Wisconsin legislature and supported by every conservative group in the state.
Local governments can support private commuter rail project without breaking the bank.
The 3rd CD needs change and results, not invective. It’s time for first-term U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden to go.
As a part of a bill to increase shared revenue to municipalities and an allowance to institute increased sales taxes, Republicans threw in a caveat that will cost Milwaukee residents an extra 2 million dollars a year. The expense is to return police officers to Milwaukee Public Schools.
Wisconsin’s measuring stick for student performance has been changed. And the categories for student performance have been renamed in, shall we say, kinder, gentler ways.
I will be kicking off back-to-school bus tour in Green Bay to highlight the importance of public schools
Speaking to Laborfest, the Minnesota guv noted he was a dues-paying member of his union while a teacher and recounted how GOP opponents once accused him in a campaign of being in the pocket of organized labor. “I said that’s a damned lie. I am the pocket. I am the pocket,” Walz said.
“We talk about a race, this one is literally a race,” Warren said on WISN’s “UpFront,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics. “She has not been a candidate for a year, or even four years, like Donald Trump has. She has been our presidential candidate for something that can be counted in just a handful of weeks. And what she’s doing, everything she can to reach people all across the country.”
It is quite curious as to why Chair Jacobs wants to follow the letter of the law now, but not in her past decisions.
Four years ago I posted videos about the conventions as an outsider. This year, I was inside both conventions.
She rips Hovde for ‘conflicts of interest’ while concealing her own.
Attorney, Milwaukee native and Bradley Foundation board member Paul Clement faces questions for his starring role in gun rights.