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Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.
City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies
Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.
The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.
Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.
Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
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Six Madison-area startup companies will compete later this month for the chance to meet with Silicon Valley venture capital firms in the fall. This year’s Pressure Chamber competition, hosted by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, is taking place Aug.
The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.
54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.
We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.
Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.
If Questions 1 and 2 pass it would upend our state’s constitution and tie the hands of either Evers or any future governor as they respond in times of emergency. When the next crisis occurs, Wisconsin’s leaders will keep the dreams of small business owners like mine alive through swift, executive action for the good of our state.
This Fed, under Powell’s leadership, has virtually been wrong on every single Fed move; always too late to loosen, too late to tighten, and whipsawing the economy up and down at their own whim.
The work undertaken by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party stands as a testament to progress and consensus that can be built in Washington around the very real threat we face from China.
Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed the path to the White House runs through Wisconsin as she campaigned in the state for the first time with newly minted running mate Tim Walz, the governor of neighboring Minnesota. Just across town, GOP VP nominee JD Vance continued to take shots at Walz and Harris as national voters are getting their first introduction to the Minnesota guv.
The head of Hospital Sisters Health System is slamming a bill from U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, arguing the restrictions and requirements it would place on health care systems are “not feasible.” HSHS President and CEO Damond Boatwright made the comments
In just one year, the new progressive majority has been doing exactly what voters across the Badger State elected them to do: hear cases where our constitutional rights and freedoms are at stake and ensure those rights and freedoms are protected.
Although the Republican leaders were perfectly fine with former Gov. Scott Walker dispensing federal funds, they didn’t like Tony Evers having that same power, especially when federal funds directed at COVID relief, and later, the sweeping infrastructure act, significantly increased Wisconsin’s share of one-time federal aid.
Today’s censorship war is a cat-and-mouse game like the one CBS engaged in with the Smothers Brothers all those years ago—free speech advocates figuring out how they can evade the network censors, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, until of course they are fired. In today’s America, it’s the constitution that is in danger of being fired.
City of Madison officials should use the $22 million budget deficit to examine efficiencies
Health care systems have found a way to generate bigger profits by skimming dollars from a drug discount program designed to help indigent or uninsured patients.
The Sauk County Board is considering selling its Medicare rated five-star county nursing home to a nonprofit that it curiously will not name.
Explore regional efficiencies in providing emergency services.
Atwell, who was appointed to the Board of Regents by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker in 2017, also criticized the pay differential between UW faculty and faculty at peer institutions.
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Six Madison-area startup companies will compete later this month for the chance to meet with Silicon Valley venture capital firms in the fall. This year’s Pressure Chamber competition, hosted by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, is taking place Aug. 20 as part of Forward Festival. This annual celebration of
The presidential race in Wisconsin remained tight in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll, though enthusiasm has spiked among Dems with Kamala Harris now the party’s nominee.
54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country.
We have never had to place basic goodness on the must-have list of characteristics when choosing our national candidates, but since 2016 this has been a requirement.
Madison will become a big city, but not a very good one, if its leaders do not rethink their approaches to growth.
If Questions 1 and 2 pass it would upend our state’s constitution and tie the hands of either Evers or any future governor as they respond in times of emergency. When the next crisis occurs, Wisconsin’s leaders will keep the dreams of small business owners like mine alive through swift, executive action for the good of our state.
This Fed, under Powell’s leadership, has virtually been wrong on every single Fed move; always too late to loosen, too late to tighten, and whipsawing the economy up and down at their own whim.
The work undertaken by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party stands as a testament to progress and consensus that can be built in Washington around the very real threat we face from China.
Vice President Kamala Harris proclaimed the path to the White House runs through Wisconsin as she campaigned in the state for the first time with newly minted running mate Tim Walz, the governor of neighboring Minnesota. Just across town, GOP VP nominee JD Vance continued to take shots at Walz and Harris as national voters are getting their first introduction to the Minnesota guv.
The head of Hospital Sisters Health System is slamming a bill from U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, arguing the restrictions and requirements it would place on health care systems are “not feasible.” HSHS President and CEO Damond Boatwright made the comments in response to the Madison Dem introducing a bill last
In just one year, the new progressive majority has been doing exactly what voters across the Badger State elected them to do: hear cases where our constitutional rights and freedoms are at stake and ensure those rights and freedoms are protected.
Although the Republican leaders were perfectly fine with former Gov. Scott Walker dispensing federal funds, they didn’t like Tony Evers having that same power, especially when federal funds directed at COVID relief, and later, the sweeping infrastructure act, significantly increased Wisconsin’s share of one-time federal aid.