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Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
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Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.

Yes, GOP gerrymandering matters. But they also have stronger candidates and message.

Advancing one’s partisan agenda should never be the sole order of the day. It’s a sad and dangerous commentary that the GOP will go to any lengths to win – even if it means undermining the very tenets of our Democracy.

Dems are growing restless over the lack of a promising candidate to take on Gov. Scott Walker.

Lately, Democrats have been all too willing to use overheated rhetoric and outright lies to turn their health care policy differences with Republicans into a clash of “good people” versus “evil people who literally want you to die.”

Most Medicaid recipients work, could lose health care under Walker proposal.

There’s no doubt that bringing thousands of new jobs to Wisconsin would be a boon to the state. But the potential Foxconn relocation also perfectly demonstrates that when we talk about jobs and the economy, we focus on the “seen” and neglect the “unseen.”

New chairman James Arthur Pope could turn foundation even further right

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was right in more ways than he knew when he said the court is “the outlier, and to pretend otherwise is simply in defiance of the facts.”

The Federal Reserve Board estimates that 55 percent of the assets in the average taxed estate haven’t ever previously been taxed because even though their value may have increased, they weren’t sold (and thus taxed) previous to death.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, says he’s pleased GOP leaders have decided to delay a vote on the chamber’s Obamacare repeal bill until after the July 4th recess. Johnson and a handful of other Republicans had said they weren’t ready to vote

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Top Republicans are meeting with Gov. Scott Walker today following a tense budget meeting that left GOP legislative leaders voicing blistering criticisms of the process and their colleagues.

Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.

Yes, GOP gerrymandering matters. But they also have stronger candidates and message.

Advancing one’s partisan agenda should never be the sole order of the day. It’s a sad and dangerous commentary that the GOP will go to any lengths to win – even if it means undermining the very tenets of our Democracy.

Dems are growing restless over the lack of a promising candidate to take on Gov. Scott Walker.

Lately, Democrats have been all too willing to use overheated rhetoric and outright lies to turn their health care policy differences with Republicans into a clash of “good people” versus “evil people who literally want you to die.”

Most Medicaid recipients work, could lose health care under Walker proposal.

There’s no doubt that bringing thousands of new jobs to Wisconsin would be a boon to the state. But the potential Foxconn relocation also perfectly demonstrates that when we talk about jobs and the economy, we focus on the “seen” and neglect the “unseen.”

New chairman James Arthur Pope could turn foundation even further right

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was right in more ways than he knew when he said the court is “the outlier, and to pretend otherwise is simply in defiance of the facts.”

The Federal Reserve Board estimates that 55 percent of the assets in the average taxed estate haven’t ever previously been taxed because even though their value may have increased, they weren’t sold (and thus taxed) previous to death.
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U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, says he’s pleased GOP leaders have decided to delay a vote on the chamber’s Obamacare repeal bill until after the July 4th recess. Johnson and a handful of other Republicans had said they weren’t ready to vote on the bill this week, denying Senate GOP leaders enough

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Top Republicans are meeting with Gov. Scott Walker today following a tense budget meeting that left GOP legislative leaders voicing blistering criticisms of the process and their colleagues. The two caucuses are divided on the appropriate levels of