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Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
Mahatma Gandhi employed a symbol of defiance to help bring an empire to its knees and free his people.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1 will offer an early test of the political environment after November’s presidential election.
If the left gets the state Supreme Court (it has had it for a year) for the next several years, it will turn Wisconsin into a California hellhole of radicalism.
GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
Most of its growth in population and workers in last 30 years has come from immigrants.
Aside from their weak and embarrassing antics during the convicted felon Donald Trump’s aggressively stupid speech last week, the Democratic leadership seems to have been pursuing a rope a dope strategy.
Donald Trump has apparently given up in his quest to destroy the Affordable Care Act, so now he’s just going to try to bleed it to death.
Gov. Tony Evers says the Trump administration is “betraying” Wisconsin’s farmers by cutting nearly $6 million in funding for a program that helps bolster local food supply chains. The guv’s office yesterday released a letter from the USDA informing DATCP
Whether through misleading arguments, frustrating questions on “electability” or problematic tough-on-crime ads, campaigns for state Supreme Court have gone in a troubling direction.
After six years in office, Evers has consistently argued that the removal of lead pipes is a top health priority, but has failed to offer a clear and strategic plan to achieve this objective.
Belmont, Wisconsin, hadn’t been all that close to the political action since it briefly served in 1836 as the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory. But on Saturday, the quiet village of 989 people felt like the hottest spot on the political map.
Resilience in the face of Trump’s leadership
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
Mahatma Gandhi employed a symbol of defiance to help bring an empire to its knees and free his people.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1 will offer an early test of the political environment after November’s presidential election.
If the left gets the state Supreme Court (it has had it for a year) for the next several years, it will turn Wisconsin into a California hellhole of radicalism.
GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
Most of its growth in population and workers in last 30 years has come from immigrants.
Aside from their weak and embarrassing antics during the convicted felon Donald Trump’s aggressively stupid speech last week, the Democratic leadership seems to have been pursuing a rope a dope strategy.
Donald Trump has apparently given up in his quest to destroy the Affordable Care Act, so now he’s just going to try to bleed it to death.
Gov. Tony Evers says the Trump administration is “betraying” Wisconsin’s farmers by cutting nearly $6 million in funding for a program that helps bolster local food supply chains. The guv’s office yesterday released a letter from the USDA informing DATCP that funding will be cut for the Local Food Purchase
Whether through misleading arguments, frustrating questions on “electability” or problematic tough-on-crime ads, campaigns for state Supreme Court have gone in a troubling direction.
After six years in office, Evers has consistently argued that the removal of lead pipes is a top health priority, but has failed to offer a clear and strategic plan to achieve this objective.
Belmont, Wisconsin, hadn’t been all that close to the political action since it briefly served in 1836 as the first capital of the Wisconsin Territory. But on Saturday, the quiet village of 989 people felt like the hottest spot on the political map.
Resilience in the face of Trump’s leadership