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From WisPolitics … — GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is urging Dem Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson to intervene and demand the protest zone for the Republican National Convention be moved further away from Fiserv Forum, the main
We need urgent and comprehensive reform. Our children deserve better than a system that prioritizes property over pupils. We must hold MPS accountable for its spending and outcomes. We need greater transparency in how funds are allocated and used. We must demand that every dollar is spent with the sole aim of improving student achievement.
This is a plan about process, not about people, not about kids. It may be needed, but it doesn’t scratch the surface of the scandal at DPI and MPS.
We’ve discovered in recent weeks that many of the people we pay to run our schools and prisons are either incompetent or, in some instances, possibly criminal. And it’s a top-to-bottom issue.
Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin says there is insufficeint data to suggest there will be enough ridership to support bus rapid transit, so city leaders have “turned to abusive land use policies” to make it work.
As centrists fall for the fantasy, who will end up living in the flight path?
Policymakers on both sides of the aisle spend a lot of time talking about ways to strengthen rural communities — and rightly so. They must remember that unless our local hospitals are kept secure and strong, our rural communities cannot be secure or strong either.
It will be seven years ago next month that McCain, suffering from terminal cancer, walked to the front of the Senate floor and dramatically signaled thumbs down to the bill that would have meant the death knell for the ACA.
It was a sad joke when the Supreme Court took up a case from conservatives who wanted to con people into thinking that a proven abortion medication with a decades-long safety record is dangerous.
For now, at least, one party in our two-party system remains fully captured by what was — at the time when “culture war” entered our lexicon — still an emerging trend. The rift has widened, and now threatens to swallow whatever is left of our common civic life.
She hasn’t announced a change of heart on most positions she had as a Democrat.
Why does Biden keep touting this thing when his efforts aren’t even appreciated by the people he’s trying to help?
As Jon Stewart says in his own inimitable way, juries consider all the facts and carefully weigh the evidence but don’t stop there and neither should journalists.
The Dem group Opportunity Wisconsin is again hitting GOP U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil on the airwaves, this time with a spot that knocks him for voting to allow credit card companies to charge higher fees.
Americans for Contraception announced a digital ad campaign praising U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, for backing access to birth control.
Climate Power and Future Forward USA Action announced a nearly $2.3 million buy in Wisconsin touting actions by the Biden administration the groups say are saving Americans money by cracking down on oil companies and capping the costs of medicine.
Wisconsin Dems slammed Donald Trump following a report he called Milwaukee — where he’s poised to formally receive the party’s nomination for the fall election — “a horrible city” during a meeting with House Republicans in Washington, D.C. House Republicans, meanwhile, gave varying explanations for Trump’s remark.
Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the university’s Fox Cities campus will close in June 2025 due to low enrollment — the sixth two-year campus in two years to either end in-person instruction or shut completely.
Washington County DA Mark Bensen tells WisPolitics he declined to file charges against state Rep. Janel Brandtjen for alleged campaign finance violations, sending the case back to the Ethics Commission.
The rally at the Racine Festival Park along Lake Michigan is about 10 miles from Mt. Pleasant, where President Joe Biden visited in early May to tout a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft in a new data center there.
From WisPolitics … — GOP Sen. Ron Johnson is urging Dem Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson to intervene and demand the protest zone for the Republican National Convention be moved further away from Fiserv Forum, the main hub for the convention. “The proximity is ridiculous,” Johnson said
We need urgent and comprehensive reform. Our children deserve better than a system that prioritizes property over pupils. We must hold MPS accountable for its spending and outcomes. We need greater transparency in how funds are allocated and used. We must demand that every dollar is spent with the sole aim of improving student achievement.
This is a plan about process, not about people, not about kids. It may be needed, but it doesn’t scratch the surface of the scandal at DPI and MPS.
We’ve discovered in recent weeks that many of the people we pay to run our schools and prisons are either incompetent or, in some instances, possibly criminal. And it’s a top-to-bottom issue.
Former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin says there is insufficeint data to suggest there will be enough ridership to support bus rapid transit, so city leaders have “turned to abusive land use policies” to make it work.
As centrists fall for the fantasy, who will end up living in the flight path?
Policymakers on both sides of the aisle spend a lot of time talking about ways to strengthen rural communities — and rightly so. They must remember that unless our local hospitals are kept secure and strong, our rural communities cannot be secure or strong either.
It will be seven years ago next month that McCain, suffering from terminal cancer, walked to the front of the Senate floor and dramatically signaled thumbs down to the bill that would have meant the death knell for the ACA.
It was a sad joke when the Supreme Court took up a case from conservatives who wanted to con people into thinking that a proven abortion medication with a decades-long safety record is dangerous.
For now, at least, one party in our two-party system remains fully captured by what was — at the time when “culture war” entered our lexicon — still an emerging trend. The rift has widened, and now threatens to swallow whatever is left of our common civic life.
She hasn’t announced a change of heart on most positions she had as a Democrat.
Why does Biden keep touting this thing when his efforts aren’t even appreciated by the people he’s trying to help?
As Jon Stewart says in his own inimitable way, juries consider all the facts and carefully weigh the evidence but don’t stop there and neither should journalists.
The Dem group Opportunity Wisconsin is again hitting GOP U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil on the airwaves, this time with a spot that knocks him for voting to allow credit card companies to charge higher fees.
Americans for Contraception announced a digital ad campaign praising U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, for backing access to birth control.
Climate Power and Future Forward USA Action announced a nearly $2.3 million buy in Wisconsin touting actions by the Biden administration the groups say are saving Americans money by cracking down on oil companies and capping the costs of medicine.
Wisconsin Dems slammed Donald Trump following a report he called Milwaukee — where he’s poised to formally receive the party’s nomination for the fall election — “a horrible city” during a meeting with House Republicans in Washington, D.C. House Republicans, meanwhile, gave varying explanations for Trump’s remark.
Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the university’s Fox Cities campus will close in June 2025 due to low enrollment — the sixth two-year campus in two years to either end in-person instruction or shut completely.
Washington County DA Mark Bensen tells WisPolitics he declined to file charges against state Rep. Janel Brandtjen for alleged campaign finance violations, sending the case back to the Ethics Commission.
The rally at the Racine Festival Park along Lake Michigan is about 10 miles from Mt. Pleasant, where President Joe Biden visited in early May to tout a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft in a new data center there.