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His latest attempt at election bribery isn’t just self-defeating in its purported aim to make higher education more affordable; it is also a dubious political calculation.
DEI, short for diversity, equity and inclusion, has been at the forefront of the culture wars for at least three years now, its roots in the right-wing Texas Legislature where GOP lawmakers claimed the state’s universities were brainwashing faculty and students over race and social justice.
When people say Congress is broken, this failure is a poster child. Instead of taking sensible steps toward reform, immigration is just an explosive political football.
The uniparty shows remarkable resilience.
Reintroduced this year in the 118th Congress by Senators Baldwin (D-WI) and J.D. Vance (R-OH), the COOL Online Act is supposed to better educate consumers about where the products they purchase online are coming from. While I understand the idea, there are a host of problems with the bill that could hurt the economic progress made in Wisconsin and the nation since the pandemic with untenable regulations.
The recent experience in India showed me a pathway that can be replicated in the United States – and here at home in Milwaukee, if we choose to again invest in our social infrastructure so that families can live, thrive, and build a supportive community for generations to come.
GOP lawmakers told the state Supreme Court they shouldn’t be on the hook for any of the expenses incurred by the consultants the liberal majority hired in the case, arguing the entire process was improper. Meanwhile, the Republican voters who intervened in the suit argued the court should cover the costs. And the Dem plaintiffs argued the Legislature alone should pick up the tab.
Constitutional amendments serve an important purpose within our democracy; however, the Republicans who gerrymandered their way into office and pushed these amendments to a vote are weaponizing the process to enshrine anti-democratic public policy.
Governor Evers often repeats the phrase “the will of the people is the law of the land,” but last week he defied the will of an overwhelming majority of Wisconsin residents in vetoing the Saving Women’s Sports Act.
Empowering Wisconsin’s working class with working-class elected leaders.
Last week the centrist, bipartisan organization No Labels labelled its attempt to find a unity ticket a failure.
College costs are outrageous. But free loans are a figment of the imagination.
The platform of the Democratic Party can be summarized in three words: More Free Stuff. While we were distracted by the partial eclipse of the sun Monday, the President of the United States dropped out of the sky to reinforce that single truth here in Madison.
The Arizona state Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era law that bans abortion in all cases, at any stage of pregnancy, except when it’s necessary to save the mother’s life.
“We’re very confident that the restaurant owners, the venues are going to see the return on investment of having the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” said Anne Hathaway, chair of the 2024 RNC Committee on Arrangements
With the 2024 Republican National Convention in Downtown Milwaukee less than 100 days away, organizers say area businesses can soon expect to see increased interest in booking space. A New York Times article noted some area venues and restaurants had
SHINE Technologies has submitted its drug master file to the FDA for a material used in precision cancer treatment. The Janesville-based company yesterday announced the submission for non-carrier added lutetium-177 chloride, or Lu-177. This radiopharmaceutical is used alongside a cancer-seeking
Nearly 180,000 primary voters refused to vote for either. What’s does that mean for Wisconsin?
Turnout for the party primaries was roughly equivalent, with both sides drawing close to 600,000 voters. By any reasonable measure, Trump should have gotten the higher popular vote and the higher percentage of the total. But that didn’t happen. Biden won 511,845 votes, compared with 476,355 votes for Trump.
As both a former Republican member of Congress who represented Green Bay and — more central to my identity, an evangelical Christian — my plea to the former president would be to speak of and pursue policies that impact immigrants in ways guided by the Bible.
His latest attempt at election bribery isn’t just self-defeating in its purported aim to make higher education more affordable; it is also a dubious political calculation.
DEI, short for diversity, equity and inclusion, has been at the forefront of the culture wars for at least three years now, its roots in the right-wing Texas Legislature where GOP lawmakers claimed the state’s universities were brainwashing faculty and students over race and social justice.
When people say Congress is broken, this failure is a poster child. Instead of taking sensible steps toward reform, immigration is just an explosive political football.
The uniparty shows remarkable resilience.
Reintroduced this year in the 118th Congress by Senators Baldwin (D-WI) and J.D. Vance (R-OH), the COOL Online Act is supposed to better educate consumers about where the products they purchase online are coming from. While I understand the idea, there are a host of problems with the bill that could hurt the economic progress made in Wisconsin and the nation since the pandemic with untenable regulations.
The recent experience in India showed me a pathway that can be replicated in the United States – and here at home in Milwaukee, if we choose to again invest in our social infrastructure so that families can live, thrive, and build a supportive community for generations to come.
GOP lawmakers told the state Supreme Court they shouldn’t be on the hook for any of the expenses incurred by the consultants the liberal majority hired in the case, arguing the entire process was improper. Meanwhile, the Republican voters who intervened in the suit argued the court should cover the costs. And the Dem plaintiffs argued the Legislature alone should pick up the tab.
Constitutional amendments serve an important purpose within our democracy; however, the Republicans who gerrymandered their way into office and pushed these amendments to a vote are weaponizing the process to enshrine anti-democratic public policy.
Governor Evers often repeats the phrase “the will of the people is the law of the land,” but last week he defied the will of an overwhelming majority of Wisconsin residents in vetoing the Saving Women’s Sports Act.
Empowering Wisconsin’s working class with working-class elected leaders.
Last week the centrist, bipartisan organization No Labels labelled its attempt to find a unity ticket a failure.
College costs are outrageous. But free loans are a figment of the imagination.
The platform of the Democratic Party can be summarized in three words: More Free Stuff. While we were distracted by the partial eclipse of the sun Monday, the President of the United States dropped out of the sky to reinforce that single truth here in Madison.
The Arizona state Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era law that bans abortion in all cases, at any stage of pregnancy, except when it’s necessary to save the mother’s life.
“We’re very confident that the restaurant owners, the venues are going to see the return on investment of having the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” said Anne Hathaway, chair of the 2024 RNC Committee on Arrangements
With the 2024 Republican National Convention in Downtown Milwaukee less than 100 days away, organizers say area businesses can soon expect to see increased interest in booking space. A New York Times article noted some area venues and restaurants had concerns about a dearth of bookings so far for the
SHINE Technologies has submitted its drug master file to the FDA for a material used in precision cancer treatment. The Janesville-based company yesterday announced the submission for non-carrier added lutetium-177 chloride, or Lu-177. This radiopharmaceutical is used alongside a cancer-seeking molecule to attack cancer cells, and is “especially useful” against
Nearly 180,000 primary voters refused to vote for either. What’s does that mean for Wisconsin?
Turnout for the party primaries was roughly equivalent, with both sides drawing close to 600,000 voters. By any reasonable measure, Trump should have gotten the higher popular vote and the higher percentage of the total. But that didn’t happen. Biden won 511,845 votes, compared with 476,355 votes for Trump.
As both a former Republican member of Congress who represented Green Bay and — more central to my identity, an evangelical Christian — my plea to the former president would be to speak of and pursue policies that impact immigrants in ways guided by the Bible.