Kent Miller: Good Wisconsin union jobs are at risk if energy credits are stripped from budget bill
Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025
The truth is that this bill is just plain bad news for workers as currently written.
The truth is that this bill is just plain bad news for workers as currently written.
What is missing in our governmental process is Congress’s constitutional role in checking executive power, ensuring that policy decisions reflect broader national deliberations rather than abrupt, uneducated and ultimately dangerous unilateral presidential authority.
Earth has undergone its hottest decade on record. The years from 2015 to 2024 recorded the warmest temps in 200 years of record-keeping.
Nelson, former Wisconsin governor, U.S. senator and founder of Earth Day, was one of the two most important progressive leaders in the state’s history. The other was Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette.
Few personalities have been more consequential and just damned interesting than Jonathan Barry.
May home sales in Wisconsin fell 2.1% over the year, marking the third month in a row of declining sales. But it was a smaller decrease than the two previous months. The Wisconsin Realtors Association’s latest report highlights this slowdown
Dismantling the UW System is akin to shooting oneself in the foot. Let’s use part of the $4 billion state surplus to fully fund the UW System, which serves the entire state.
After years of fighting for my kids and yours in front of the bench, I’m ready to help reform our judiciary from behind the bench.
It’s time to fix our immigration mess by making it easier for farms to survive, and for Washington to act
President Trump promised to stop never-ending wars. He just put up the Stop Sign for one that has lasted 46 years.
As Wisconsinites have long recognized, Congress should never give presidents a blank check for endless war.
Being opposed to the Israel genocide of the Palestinian people is not the same as being opposed to Jewish people or their faith.
The level of national chaos that we have generated for years affects national mores, economics, education and our overall health.
I think the fact that the one person who walked out the doors and engaged with me at the emergency entrance was a trans woman underscores that trans people are very much a part of our rich and diverse society.
Residents understand the value of urban density, but like it better in the abstract.
The public, including seniors, deserves housing-free parks.
I want the UW System to thrive, but that won’t happen by enabling waste and unchecked expansion. Taxpayers deserve universities that educate — not embolden, not enrich, and certainly not excuse administrative excess. It’s time UW earned back our trust.
You can always tell when the state Legislature is about to attempt something nefarious or otherwise injurious to the state’s residents by the pace of their activity.
The Public Service Commission’s approval of two new We Energies natural gas plants wasn’t just a policy decision. It was a moral failure of leadership, imagination and public duty.
The truth is that this bill is just plain bad news for workers as currently written.
What is missing in our governmental process is Congress’s constitutional role in checking executive power, ensuring that policy decisions reflect broader national deliberations rather than abrupt, uneducated and ultimately dangerous unilateral presidential authority.
Earth has undergone its hottest decade on record. The years from 2015 to 2024 recorded the warmest temps in 200 years of record-keeping.
Nelson, former Wisconsin governor, U.S. senator and founder of Earth Day, was one of the two most important progressive leaders in the state’s history. The other was Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette.
Few personalities have been more consequential and just damned interesting than Jonathan Barry.
May home sales in Wisconsin fell 2.1% over the year, marking the third month in a row of declining sales. But it was a smaller decrease than the two previous months. The Wisconsin Realtors Association’s latest report highlights this slowdown in the rate of decline, noting March sales had fallen
Dismantling the UW System is akin to shooting oneself in the foot. Let’s use part of the $4 billion state surplus to fully fund the UW System, which serves the entire state.
After years of fighting for my kids and yours in front of the bench, I’m ready to help reform our judiciary from behind the bench.
It’s time to fix our immigration mess by making it easier for farms to survive, and for Washington to act
President Trump promised to stop never-ending wars. He just put up the Stop Sign for one that has lasted 46 years.
As Wisconsinites have long recognized, Congress should never give presidents a blank check for endless war.
Being opposed to the Israel genocide of the Palestinian people is not the same as being opposed to Jewish people or their faith.
The level of national chaos that we have generated for years affects national mores, economics, education and our overall health.
I think the fact that the one person who walked out the doors and engaged with me at the emergency entrance was a trans woman underscores that trans people are very much a part of our rich and diverse society.
Residents understand the value of urban density, but like it better in the abstract.
The public, including seniors, deserves housing-free parks.
I want the UW System to thrive, but that won’t happen by enabling waste and unchecked expansion. Taxpayers deserve universities that educate — not embolden, not enrich, and certainly not excuse administrative excess. It’s time UW earned back our trust.
You can always tell when the state Legislature is about to attempt something nefarious or otherwise injurious to the state’s residents by the pace of their activity.
The Public Service Commission’s approval of two new We Energies natural gas plants wasn’t just a policy decision. It was a moral failure of leadership, imagination and public duty.