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That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
Labor organizers say next week’s union election for nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital will be the state’s largest in the private sector in at least a quarter-century. SEIU Wisconsin yesterday announced the National Labor Relations Board has set
Both sides of the aisle in this governor’s race chose their ideological corners over the people they want to lead.
The presumptive GOP nominee in the race for governor is an election denier, and seeking to overturn the results of a free and fair election is extreme in a way that goes beyond policy disagreements.
Transmission development should never be about a race to the bottom. Transmission is long-lived, critical infrastructure, and the hard part isn’t submitting low-cost bids. It’s delivering projects on time and maintaining a regulatory structure that holds people accountable for decades after the press releases stop.
Open classrooms can connect all the parents, students and teachers as one family.
State schools superintendent reverses course and says DPI lacks authority to support the Milwaukee Reading Coalition at all. That directly contradicts the guidance provided in previous year.
For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley Forge like a Norman Rockwell recreation — the silence today is deafening. And it is very sad as we prepare to observe the semiquincentennial.
Screens are unavoidable, and can be used for good, but only if we change our doom-spiral routine.
While Wisconsin will need less new housing than previously projected to maintain the status quo, a new Forward Analytics report argues the state should set its sights higher than “building for a low-end estimate.” The research arm of the Wisconsin
One of the most important lessons from the last several decades of criminal justice policy is surprisingly simple: communities are safest when laws are enforced consistently and wrongdoing is addressed before it escalates.
Modern ALPR systems, when implemented responsibly with strong policies and oversight, can significantly enhance safety while protecting the constitutional rights of citizens.
That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
Labor organizers say next week’s union election for nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital will be the state’s largest in the private sector in at least a quarter-century. SEIU Wisconsin yesterday announced the National Labor Relations Board has set June 11 as the date for the union election, after
Both sides of the aisle in this governor’s race chose their ideological corners over the people they want to lead.
The presumptive GOP nominee in the race for governor is an election denier, and seeking to overturn the results of a free and fair election is extreme in a way that goes beyond policy disagreements.
Transmission development should never be about a race to the bottom. Transmission is long-lived, critical infrastructure, and the hard part isn’t submitting low-cost bids. It’s delivering projects on time and maintaining a regulatory structure that holds people accountable for decades after the press releases stop.
Open classrooms can connect all the parents, students and teachers as one family.
State schools superintendent reverses course and says DPI lacks authority to support the Milwaukee Reading Coalition at all. That directly contradicts the guidance provided in previous year.
For a nation that once threw itself a year‑long Bicentennial bash — tall ships crowding New York Harbor, wagon trains converging on Valley Forge like a Norman Rockwell recreation — the silence today is deafening. And it is very sad as we prepare to observe the semiquincentennial.
Screens are unavoidable, and can be used for good, but only if we change our doom-spiral routine.
While Wisconsin will need less new housing than previously projected to maintain the status quo, a new Forward Analytics report argues the state should set its sights higher than “building for a low-end estimate.” The research arm of the Wisconsin Counties Association yesterday released “Not Enough: Wisconsin’s Housing Outlook.” The
One of the most important lessons from the last several decades of criminal justice policy is surprisingly simple: communities are safest when laws are enforced consistently and wrongdoing is addressed before it escalates.
Modern ALPR systems, when implemented responsibly with strong policies and oversight, can significantly enhance safety while protecting the constitutional rights of citizens.