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These promising trends continue into 2026. From January to June of this year, preliminary estimates continue to show a decrease across the four key categories of crime
As immigrants—work-authorized or unauthorized— participate in the economy both as workers and consumers, they tend to increase demand for labor and expand the overall size of the American economy.
They have hurt Democrats in the polls in recent years.
When it comes to their high-profile national supporters, David Crowley and Tom Tiffany are a study in stark contrasts.
By most rational accounts, the congressional race in Wisconsin’s sprawling 7th District in northern Wisconsin should be no contest.
When you fill out your ballot this fall, don’t stop after the governor’s race. Three proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and each one puts a firm limit on government power.
This constitutional amendment question will be on every ballot across the state, and its intentionally confusing language makes it seem like it’s anti-discrimination, but the devil is in the details.
Wisconsin amendment would bar unjust preferences, defeating agencies’ so-sue-me attitude
Find economic statistics that matter to you and see how they’re doing under the Republicans and Trump. Then please cast your vote.
I fear what will happen to our humanity after this. An irreversible wickedness, to borrow Dickens’ verbiage, will live inside us, waiting for the next opportunity to gawk at state-sanctioned death.
Terrorism is no abstract threat.
R.J. Johnson, longtime Republican consultant, condemns raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
My 16-year-old son was home alone when armed agents came through our door.
Evidence mounts that ongoing AI use makes our brains lazy and over time will likely make us stupider.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says new federal match requirements could kill a program meant to support dairy farmers and processors.
Attorney General Josh Kaul is co-leading a multistate lawsuit against the federal government targeting what plaintiffs say was the unlawful termination of IT modernization grants.
Make your vote an extension of your love for our city and a confirmation of your faith in our neighbors who volunteer to work the polls.
We have a responsibility to fund the core functions of state government and provide the services Wisconsinites depend on. We also have a responsibility to make sure taxpayers receive value for every dollar we spend. Sometimes the best way to determine where we should go next is to start from zero.
A promise not to tax is not a “subsidy” at all when the $35B+ in investment in the state would have likely never happened in the first place, but for the existence of the exemption.
Rather than letting another election season divide us over who is responsible, Wisconsin can work toward a durable solution: give schools predictable, inflation-responsive revenue authority; fund that commitment with state resources; reduce pressure on local property taxpayers; and lessen communities’ dependence on recurring operating referenda.
These promising trends continue into 2026. From January to June of this year, preliminary estimates continue to show a decrease across the four key categories of crime
As immigrants—work-authorized or unauthorized— participate in the economy both as workers and consumers, they tend to increase demand for labor and expand the overall size of the American economy.
They have hurt Democrats in the polls in recent years.
When it comes to their high-profile national supporters, David Crowley and Tom Tiffany are a study in stark contrasts.
By most rational accounts, the congressional race in Wisconsin’s sprawling 7th District in northern Wisconsin should be no contest.
When you fill out your ballot this fall, don’t stop after the governor’s race. Three proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution are on the Nov. 3 ballot, and each one puts a firm limit on government power.
This constitutional amendment question will be on every ballot across the state, and its intentionally confusing language makes it seem like it’s anti-discrimination, but the devil is in the details.
Wisconsin amendment would bar unjust preferences, defeating agencies’ so-sue-me attitude
Find economic statistics that matter to you and see how they’re doing under the Republicans and Trump. Then please cast your vote.
I fear what will happen to our humanity after this. An irreversible wickedness, to borrow Dickens’ verbiage, will live inside us, waiting for the next opportunity to gawk at state-sanctioned death.
Terrorism is no abstract threat.
R.J. Johnson, longtime Republican consultant, condemns raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
My 16-year-old son was home alone when armed agents came through our door.
Evidence mounts that ongoing AI use makes our brains lazy and over time will likely make us stupider.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin says new federal match requirements could kill a program meant to support dairy farmers and processors.
Attorney General Josh Kaul is co-leading a multistate lawsuit against the federal government targeting what plaintiffs say was the unlawful termination of IT modernization grants.
Make your vote an extension of your love for our city and a confirmation of your faith in our neighbors who volunteer to work the polls.
We have a responsibility to fund the core functions of state government and provide the services Wisconsinites depend on. We also have a responsibility to make sure taxpayers receive value for every dollar we spend. Sometimes the best way to determine where we should go next is to start from zero.
A promise not to tax is not a “subsidy” at all when the $35B+ in investment in the state would have likely never happened in the first place, but for the existence of the exemption.
Rather than letting another election season divide us over who is responsible, Wisconsin can work toward a durable solution: give schools predictable, inflation-responsive revenue authority; fund that commitment with state resources; reduce pressure on local property taxpayers; and lessen communities’ dependence on recurring operating referenda.