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The Dane County Board’s 2026 budget amendments meet the moment.
A panel discussion around AI highlighted differing views on the technology’s potential for workforce disruption in Wisconsin, with some in state government more optimistic than others. Yesterday’s WisBusiness-WisPolitics-State Affairs luncheon event was held in UW-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute, which helps
Real reform means investing in people, not prisons.
The push to legalize sports betting across the nation has grown over the last several years, and the stakes are far too great for us to get this wrong.
The teacher has a problem. What’s everybody else’s excuse?
When poor Black communities sound the alarm, we must listen and act as if everyone else is next. The struggle for food justice is not just about groceries.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Davis’s appeal is a reminder that civil rights are not subject to the whims of individual clerks or the shifting tides of political ideology.
Three weeks ago in this space we urged Democrats to do the responsible thing, be the adults in the room, and vote to end the government shutdown. Now, thanks to the sensible moderate Democrats in the Senate, that’s exactly what’s happening. Moreover, it’ll pay off politically for their party.
Wauwatosa startup RoddyMedical plans to roll out its medical line management device at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus in the near future. Founder and CEO Lindsey Roddy shared an update on the business during the Wisconsin Technology Council’s recent Early Stage
Steil is behind legislation intended to take away elected representatives’ paychecks when the federal government is shut down.
Even if Trump’s new testing is something less than he suggested, nonproliferation advocates worry that even the scientific objectives suggested by Energy Secretary Chris Wright would create a backlash that would open the door for other major nuclear powers to begin their own widespread testing.
Community solar is an option like none we have experienced before; it is decentralized, flexible, and ready to power Wisconsin’s future.
Health care management is complex. But smart politicians should, on behalf of citizens, be able to cut through the complexity toward solutions that work.
The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit “foreign adversaries” from owning or acquiring land in Wisconsin. Richard Moore gives the low-down and compares it to similar efforts being made in other states, and at the federal level.
UW Law School on Friday will be holding a one-day conference on reviving fusion voting in Wisconsin.
The process was once common, according to Project Democracy, and two states — New York and Connecticut — allow some version of it.
Fusion voting gave New York City voters a chance to reject Trump’s outrageous attacks on Mamdani, while at the same time putting an increasingly marginalized GOP in its place.
Until now, special education has been one of the few areas where politics didn’t divide us.
The cruelty, the waste, the lack of any coherent plan by this administration is becoming clearer and clearer.
It is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an organization and to a society that goes Woke. Not content with being green, the Sierra Club embraced “social justice” and proceeded to devour itself in backbiting, blame-gaming, and inquisitions.
The Dane County Board’s 2026 budget amendments meet the moment.
A panel discussion around AI highlighted differing views on the technology’s potential for workforce disruption in Wisconsin, with some in state government more optimistic than others. Yesterday’s WisBusiness-WisPolitics-State Affairs luncheon event was held in UW-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute, which helps advance industrial technology applications with Microsoft’s help for manufacturers in
Real reform means investing in people, not prisons.
The push to legalize sports betting across the nation has grown over the last several years, and the stakes are far too great for us to get this wrong.
The teacher has a problem. What’s everybody else’s excuse?
When poor Black communities sound the alarm, we must listen and act as if everyone else is next. The struggle for food justice is not just about groceries.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Davis’s appeal is a reminder that civil rights are not subject to the whims of individual clerks or the shifting tides of political ideology.
Three weeks ago in this space we urged Democrats to do the responsible thing, be the adults in the room, and vote to end the government shutdown. Now, thanks to the sensible moderate Democrats in the Senate, that’s exactly what’s happening. Moreover, it’ll pay off politically for their party.
Wauwatosa startup RoddyMedical plans to roll out its medical line management device at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus in the near future. Founder and CEO Lindsey Roddy shared an update on the business during the Wisconsin Technology Council’s recent Early Stage Symposium in Madison. She said the company has made substantial
Steil is behind legislation intended to take away elected representatives’ paychecks when the federal government is shut down.
Even if Trump’s new testing is something less than he suggested, nonproliferation advocates worry that even the scientific objectives suggested by Energy Secretary Chris Wright would create a backlash that would open the door for other major nuclear powers to begin their own widespread testing.
Community solar is an option like none we have experienced before; it is decentralized, flexible, and ready to power Wisconsin’s future.
Health care management is complex. But smart politicians should, on behalf of citizens, be able to cut through the complexity toward solutions that work.
The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit “foreign adversaries” from owning or acquiring land in Wisconsin. Richard Moore gives the low-down and compares it to similar efforts being made in other states, and at the federal level.
UW Law School on Friday will be holding a one-day conference on reviving fusion voting in Wisconsin.
The process was once common, according to Project Democracy, and two states — New York and Connecticut — allow some version of it.
Fusion voting gave New York City voters a chance to reject Trump’s outrageous attacks on Mamdani, while at the same time putting an increasingly marginalized GOP in its place.
Until now, special education has been one of the few areas where politics didn’t divide us.
The cruelty, the waste, the lack of any coherent plan by this administration is becoming clearer and clearer.
It is a cautionary tale of what can happen to an organization and to a society that goes Woke. Not content with being green, the Sierra Club embraced “social justice” and proceeded to devour itself in backbiting, blame-gaming, and inquisitions.