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There was a new dimension to the anti-Trump protest Saturday that drew a record turnout of an estimated 1,600 citizens to the grounds of the Washington County Courthouse. It was opposition to his new war against Iran.
I’m tired of the snap judgments that fall so much harder on women, especially conservative women. We don’t really know what went down in Kristi’s marriage and, frankly, it’s hard to see how it’s any of our business, as weird as it all is. Leave Kristi alone. She has enough to deal with.
More than 20,000 international cruise ship passengers are expected to visit Milwaukee this year as Great Lakes tourism continues to expand in the region. That’s according to the former head of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Adam
All of ATC’s customers, Wisconsin households and businesses, started paying for a project the day construction began, eighteen months before the facility opens.
Wisconsin lawmakers just advanced two major bills related to the SNAP program; one was signed by the governor, and the other just passed the Assembly.
Hong is the beating heart of the pro-Palestine, “reimagine policing,” social justice warriors here in Wisconsin. The huddled masses yearning for more free stuff support legislation like her Assembly Bill 370. It required prisons and jails to allow inmates to get and give a 20-second hug.
There is palpable anger afoot in this nation. Not violent fist-a-cuff anger. But rather a determined, reasoned, and righteous commitment against the destruction of our national norms and the constitutional guardrails that govern this land.
The Chicano Movement was our Civil Rights Movement and we cannot stand by and watch it be erased by the actions of one man, no matter how much he contributed to it.
Will the league stand by inclusion efforts?
Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law dozens of changes to worker’s compensation in the state, from expanding PTSD coverage for some first responders to boosting certain disability benefit rates. The Dem guv yesterday signed AB 651 at the Wisconsin
There were some surprises along the way.
In a session otherwise defined by circular firing squads, three Republican legislators did something rare in Wisconsin politics. They led.
Wisconsin is sitting on a significant state budget surplus. Investing these resources into special education services would provide real relief while ensuring schools have the resources needed to serve all students. A more balanced approach to school funding, including a new approach to general aid disbursements, is necessary.
It is up to us as adults to put young people in an environment where they can be successful. And when we do that, these kids respond positively. When provided an equal level of expectations and a positive environment, Black students can perform just as well as their white counterparts.
Wauwatosa ‘2030 Slate’ mum on governing Ideas, promises school board recall elections
Americans have had enough of Trump-GOP’s cruelty, incompetence, lies and stupidity. There’s hope; Americans are organizing, protesting and voting.
The founders of the United States feared monarchically inclined presidents who could wage wars of whim.
The book’s foreword says McGovern’s diary provides “a sense of the man he was to become. We also come to understand why McGovern, having experienced combat firsthand, in later life was not among those given to glorifying war or to sending their fellow citizens to fight when not absolutely necessary.” Times have changed.
Most of our strategies focus on managing the symptoms of violence—not changing the conditions that produce it.
Federal changes to wage rates under the H-2A migrant labor program are expected to lower costs for employers in Wisconsin and elsewhere, though advocates are raising concerns about the impact on workers whose pay will drop dramatically. Most of the
There was a new dimension to the anti-Trump protest Saturday that drew a record turnout of an estimated 1,600 citizens to the grounds of the Washington County Courthouse. It was opposition to his new war against Iran.
I’m tired of the snap judgments that fall so much harder on women, especially conservative women. We don’t really know what went down in Kristi’s marriage and, frankly, it’s hard to see how it’s any of our business, as weird as it all is. Leave Kristi alone. She has enough to deal with.
More than 20,000 international cruise ship passengers are expected to visit Milwaukee this year as Great Lakes tourism continues to expand in the region. That’s according to the former head of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Adam Tindall-Schlicht, who addressed members of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee
All of ATC’s customers, Wisconsin households and businesses, started paying for a project the day construction began, eighteen months before the facility opens.
Wisconsin lawmakers just advanced two major bills related to the SNAP program; one was signed by the governor, and the other just passed the Assembly.
Hong is the beating heart of the pro-Palestine, “reimagine policing,” social justice warriors here in Wisconsin. The huddled masses yearning for more free stuff support legislation like her Assembly Bill 370. It required prisons and jails to allow inmates to get and give a 20-second hug.
There is palpable anger afoot in this nation. Not violent fist-a-cuff anger. But rather a determined, reasoned, and righteous commitment against the destruction of our national norms and the constitutional guardrails that govern this land.
The Chicano Movement was our Civil Rights Movement and we cannot stand by and watch it be erased by the actions of one man, no matter how much he contributed to it.
Will the league stand by inclusion efforts?
Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law dozens of changes to worker’s compensation in the state, from expanding PTSD coverage for some first responders to boosting certain disability benefit rates. The Dem guv yesterday signed AB 651 at the Wisconsin State Council of Machinists Annual Conference, his office announced. The
There were some surprises along the way.
In a session otherwise defined by circular firing squads, three Republican legislators did something rare in Wisconsin politics. They led.
Wisconsin is sitting on a significant state budget surplus. Investing these resources into special education services would provide real relief while ensuring schools have the resources needed to serve all students. A more balanced approach to school funding, including a new approach to general aid disbursements, is necessary.
It is up to us as adults to put young people in an environment where they can be successful. And when we do that, these kids respond positively. When provided an equal level of expectations and a positive environment, Black students can perform just as well as their white counterparts.
Wauwatosa ‘2030 Slate’ mum on governing Ideas, promises school board recall elections
Americans have had enough of Trump-GOP’s cruelty, incompetence, lies and stupidity. There’s hope; Americans are organizing, protesting and voting.
The founders of the United States feared monarchically inclined presidents who could wage wars of whim.
The book’s foreword says McGovern’s diary provides “a sense of the man he was to become. We also come to understand why McGovern, having experienced combat firsthand, in later life was not among those given to glorifying war or to sending their fellow citizens to fight when not absolutely necessary.” Times have changed.
Most of our strategies focus on managing the symptoms of violence—not changing the conditions that produce it.
Federal changes to wage rates under the H-2A migrant labor program are expected to lower costs for employers in Wisconsin and elsewhere, though advocates are raising concerns about the impact on workers whose pay will drop dramatically. Most of the workers coming to Wisconsin under the program could see their