Melissa Agard: Dane County needs more foster families
Thursday, May 29, 2025
In Dane County, the demand for foster homes is acute, especially for teenagers and sibling groups.
In Dane County, the demand for foster homes is acute, especially for teenagers and sibling groups.
Police monitor hard at work undermining public safety.
We need you to listen to the shifting opinions of the American people, including your Wisconsin constituents, who the AP/NORC poll shows want you to do just that.
In Wisconsin and neighboring states, only 16 percent of violent crimes result in arrest.
Grassroots Republicans are still embracing rigid views on abortion, despite a barrage of headlines detailing the deaths and suffering of women under similar bans.
So Make America Healthy Again finally found its way to Madison this month when lawmakers gave a pair of Republican-sponsored bills each a hearing, and while groups such as Wisconsin United for Freedom were ecstatic, and rightly so, some libertarian-ish types were reaching for their Tums.
We must protect Medicaid for the millions who rely on it. Tell Congress not to endanger the health of our country.
By moving the United States another step toward the wealth-dominated oligarchy that FDR warned against, Tiffany and his fellow Republicans made American less equal, less free and more vulnerable to “the most ancient of mankind’s enemies.”
I have always believed the Trump administration contained a troubling undercurrent of racism. The question is how we confront this injustice moving forward.
Donald Trump and his administration are slowly but inexorably eroding our American democracy in multiple ways. The end result may not be all that different than a military takeover and suspension of constitutional government, but it’s happening incrementally and on many fronts.
The Department of Public Instruction has announced an effort to revamp state report cards for Wisconsin schools, saying a cross-section of educators will be involved in making sure the system “remains valid, fair, and aligned with current expectations.”
The Joint Finance Committee will meet Thursday to vote on eight agency budgets, including the Department of Safety and Professional Services.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is raising concerns about “deep cuts” to FoodShare included in the federal budget reconciliation bill. FoodShare is the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food benefits to low-income recipients. WGA says the
Our obligation is to work together to create and advance a care plan that will honor the defenseless and protect our most vulnerable. This is a call for action, a call to the people who have the ability and responsibility to make changes and regulate a critical industry. We want and need safe, affordable housing for our aging friends and family members—and for ourselves.
It is right and important that we remember and grieve with the families, the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, who lost loved ones in America’s wars.
It’s Memorial Day, so let’s do some reflecting on war. Here’s my key reflection: the most dangerous thing we face right now may be the passing of the WW II generation. Here’s why.
The victor will succeed Ben Wikler.
If Evers were truly adhering to the court’s directive, he would have made the smallest possible changes to balance populations, not orchestrated a wholesale transfer of tens of thousands of voters to reshape electoral outcomes.
The GOP-led House passage of the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Act” cuts taxes mostly for the wealthy, shreds food aid and health care coverage, and massively increases the national debt.
Medicaid cuts are what the Senators will be most attuned to as they now take up the highly flawed and overly mean-spirited House bill.
In Dane County, the demand for foster homes is acute, especially for teenagers and sibling groups.
Police monitor hard at work undermining public safety.
We need you to listen to the shifting opinions of the American people, including your Wisconsin constituents, who the AP/NORC poll shows want you to do just that.
In Wisconsin and neighboring states, only 16 percent of violent crimes result in arrest.
Grassroots Republicans are still embracing rigid views on abortion, despite a barrage of headlines detailing the deaths and suffering of women under similar bans.
So Make America Healthy Again finally found its way to Madison this month when lawmakers gave a pair of Republican-sponsored bills each a hearing, and while groups such as Wisconsin United for Freedom were ecstatic, and rightly so, some libertarian-ish types were reaching for their Tums.
We must protect Medicaid for the millions who rely on it. Tell Congress not to endanger the health of our country.
By moving the United States another step toward the wealth-dominated oligarchy that FDR warned against, Tiffany and his fellow Republicans made American less equal, less free and more vulnerable to “the most ancient of mankind’s enemies.”
I have always believed the Trump administration contained a troubling undercurrent of racism. The question is how we confront this injustice moving forward.
Donald Trump and his administration are slowly but inexorably eroding our American democracy in multiple ways. The end result may not be all that different than a military takeover and suspension of constitutional government, but it’s happening incrementally and on many fronts.
The Department of Public Instruction has announced an effort to revamp state report cards for Wisconsin schools, saying a cross-section of educators will be involved in making sure the system “remains valid, fair, and aligned with current expectations.”
The Joint Finance Committee will meet Thursday to vote on eight agency budgets, including the Department of Safety and Professional Services.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is raising concerns about “deep cuts” to FoodShare included in the federal budget reconciliation bill. FoodShare is the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food benefits to low-income recipients. WGA says the program is a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of state
Our obligation is to work together to create and advance a care plan that will honor the defenseless and protect our most vulnerable. This is a call for action, a call to the people who have the ability and responsibility to make changes and regulate a critical industry. We want and need safe, affordable housing for our aging friends and family members—and for ourselves.
It is right and important that we remember and grieve with the families, the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, who lost loved ones in America’s wars.
It’s Memorial Day, so let’s do some reflecting on war. Here’s my key reflection: the most dangerous thing we face right now may be the passing of the WW II generation. Here’s why.
The victor will succeed Ben Wikler.
If Evers were truly adhering to the court’s directive, he would have made the smallest possible changes to balance populations, not orchestrated a wholesale transfer of tens of thousands of voters to reshape electoral outcomes.
The GOP-led House passage of the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Act” cuts taxes mostly for the wealthy, shreds food aid and health care coverage, and massively increases the national debt.
Medicaid cuts are what the Senators will be most attuned to as they now take up the highly flawed and overly mean-spirited House bill.