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The incredible decline — and remarkable staying power — of state teacher’s union.
Twenty years ago, prison overcrowding in Wisconsin led to hundreds of inmates being housed by private prisons, costing millions of taxpayer dollars each year. At the same time, new prisons were constructed and opened at a rate of nearly one prison per year, also costing millions of taxpayer dollars. Today, we stand on the verge of repeating this costly history.
Wachs’ attempt to link his Republican political opponent to the misdeeds of Franken, Conyers and Moore comes as sexual assault and harassment are being treated with the gravity they deserve. Yet Wachs has decided to take a cheap political shot.
If Wachs is serious – finally – about showing women respect, it’s a conversation he needs to have with his own political party.
The 21 law, like Prohibition in the ’20s, didn’t really cut down on drinking — it sent it to the modern-day speakeasies. And that, of course, spurred raids by the cops followed by huge fines and even jail.
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State Superintendent Tony Evers is seeking to dump the Wisconsin Department of Justice as his attorney in a lawsuit aiming to force him to comply with a new law that gives the Legislature and guv overview of the administrative rules
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Dec. 19: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senate candidate Leah Vukmir Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Tuesday Dec. 19 with U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, a Brookfield Republican
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will address the WMC Foundation’s fourth annual Future Wisconsin Summit today in Madison. This afternoon, Walker will participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony at Industries
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Superintendent Tony Evers today sought to dump the Wisconsin Department of Justice as his attorney in a lawsuit seeking to force him to comply with a new law that gives the
They’re at it again. Despite overwhelming support for an open Internet, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to undo net neutrality in the United States. And the big winner will be the giant telecommunications companies — and pretty much no one else.
Evers using Walker’s requirement the Department of Public Instruction use state DOJ lawyers in lawsuit related to REINS Act to raise funds for gubernatorial campaign.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on President Donald Trump’s derision of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
The incredible decline — and remarkable staying power — of state teacher’s union.
Twenty years ago, prison overcrowding in Wisconsin led to hundreds of inmates being housed by private prisons, costing millions of taxpayer dollars each year. At the same time, new prisons were constructed and opened at a rate of nearly one prison per year, also costing millions of taxpayer dollars. Today, we stand on the verge of repeating this costly history.
Wachs’ attempt to link his Republican political opponent to the misdeeds of Franken, Conyers and Moore comes as sexual assault and harassment are being treated with the gravity they deserve. Yet Wachs has decided to take a cheap political shot.
If Wachs is serious – finally – about showing women respect, it’s a conversation he needs to have with his own political party.
The 21 law, like Prohibition in the ’20s, didn’t really cut down on drinking — it sent it to the modern-day speakeasies. And that, of course, spurred raids by the cops followed by huge fines and even jail.
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State Superintendent Tony Evers is seeking to dump the Wisconsin Department of Justice as his attorney in a lawsuit aiming to force him to comply with a new law that gives the Legislature and guv overview of the administrative rules his agency writes. Evers declared at a news conference Tuesday
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Dec. 19: WisPolitics Luncheon with Senate candidate Leah Vukmir Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at the Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Tuesday Dec. 19 with U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir, a Brookfield Republican state senator. Check-in and lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker will address the WMC Foundation’s fourth annual Future Wisconsin Summit today in Madison. This afternoon, Walker will participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony at Industries for the Blind in Menomonee Falls. — Wisconsin Veterans Affairs
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — State Superintendent Tony Evers today sought to dump the Wisconsin Department of Justice as his attorney in a lawsuit seeking to force him to comply with a new law that gives the Legislature and guv overview of the administrative rules his agency
They’re at it again. Despite overwhelming support for an open Internet, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to undo net neutrality in the United States. And the big winner will be the giant telecommunications companies — and pretty much no one else.
Evers using Walker’s requirement the Department of Public Instruction use state DOJ lawyers in lawsuit related to REINS Act to raise funds for gubernatorial campaign.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on President Donald Trump’s derision of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”