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Invited speakers shall be allowed to speak freely and without interference, regardless of ideology, and Wisconsin’s institutions must have rules in place to ensure that faculty and students are not mandated to publicly express a given views on social policy, but rather, to openly challenge popular, politically-correct opinions and truths.
April 25 marked the fifth anniversary of student loan debt reaching $1 trillion in the United States. According to the latest estimates, over 43 million Americans now owe $1.4 trillion, making student loans the second largest consumer debt in the nation, more than what’s owed on credit cards or auto loans.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s new blog entry highlights the AAU’s statement urging the renewal of the partnership between the federal government and research universities.
The biggest problem of all is that Wisconsin appears to have lost its ambition to be first or best.
There’s no way to minimize the environmental and legal disaster being imposed on Wisconsin and its publicly-owned waters by conservative donors and corporately-manipulated Republicans who occupy and are coordinating the Governor’s Office, Legislative majorities in both chambers, the Office of Attorney General, all relevant stage agency management positions and a 5-2 majority on an openly-conflicted, giddly-greedy State Supreme Court.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 4: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Medicaid in Transition” The WisPolitics.com lunch at the Madison Club on Thursday, May 4 features a “Medicaid in Transition” panel discussing proposed changes to the federal-state Medicaid program. Panelists: –
A new Republican bill would require the UW System to adopt a policy on freedom of expression and sanction students who “interfere with the expressive rights of others.” The bill, authored by Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, would require UW campuses
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Assembly will return to the floor Tuesday to vote on the high-capacity wells bill while possibly taking up two special session bills to address opioid abuse.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A new Republican bill would require the UW System to adopt a policy on freedom of expression and sanction students who “interfere with the rights of others” to hear from a controversial
It’s Tax Freedom Day for the Badger State, the day when hard-working Wisconsinites have finally earned enough money to cover their total tax burden for 2017, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Freedom Day initiative.
We could fix what we have in Wisconsin and nationally. We could move toward something better. Tragically, our leaders don’t want better health care, even at lower prices.
The governor’s statement that there is “more than enough revenue” to fund transportation projects is squarely at odds with current and proposed highway budgets.
The ultimate responsibility for local roads lies with local government. It doesn’t matter what state lawmakers decide to do with transportation, roads in cities like Milwaukee will stay in terrible condition until the local government decides to make road improvement a priority.
As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.
Invited speakers shall be allowed to speak freely and without interference, regardless of ideology, and Wisconsin’s institutions must have rules in place to ensure that faculty and students are not mandated to publicly express a given views on social policy, but rather, to openly challenge popular, politically-correct opinions and truths.
April 25 marked the fifth anniversary of student loan debt reaching $1 trillion in the United States. According to the latest estimates, over 43 million Americans now owe $1.4 trillion, making student loans the second largest consumer debt in the nation, more than what’s owed on credit cards or auto loans.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank’s new blog entry highlights the AAU’s statement urging the renewal of the partnership between the federal government and research universities.
The biggest problem of all is that Wisconsin appears to have lost its ambition to be first or best.
There’s no way to minimize the environmental and legal disaster being imposed on Wisconsin and its publicly-owned waters by conservative donors and corporately-manipulated Republicans who occupy and are coordinating the Governor’s Office, Legislative majorities in both chambers, the Office of Attorney General, all relevant stage agency management positions and a 5-2 majority on an openly-conflicted, giddly-greedy State Supreme Court.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 4: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Medicaid in Transition” The WisPolitics.com lunch at the Madison Club on Thursday, May 4 features a “Medicaid in Transition” panel discussing proposed changes to the federal-state Medicaid program. Panelists: – Michael Heifetz, state of Wisconsin Medicaid director – John R…
A new Republican bill would require the UW System to adopt a policy on freedom of expression and sanction students who “interfere with the expressive rights of others.” The bill, authored by Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, would require UW campuses to suspend or expel students who violate the policy twice.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state Assembly will return to the floor Tuesday to vote on the high-capacity wells bill while possibly taking up two special session bills to address opioid abuse. The Assembly Committee on Rules yesterday signed off on the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — A new Republican bill would require the UW System to adopt a policy on freedom of expression and sanction students who “interfere with the rights of others” to hear from a controversial speaker. The bill, authored by Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, would
It’s Tax Freedom Day for the Badger State, the day when hard-working Wisconsinites have finally earned enough money to cover their total tax burden for 2017, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Freedom Day initiative.
We could fix what we have in Wisconsin and nationally. We could move toward something better. Tragically, our leaders don’t want better health care, even at lower prices.
The governor’s statement that there is “more than enough revenue” to fund transportation projects is squarely at odds with current and proposed highway budgets.
The ultimate responsibility for local roads lies with local government. It doesn’t matter what state lawmakers decide to do with transportation, roads in cities like Milwaukee will stay in terrible condition until the local government decides to make road improvement a priority.
As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.