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Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
UW-Madison researchers are “paving the way for scalable and practical” quantum computing by using advanced sensors to improve the technology. That’s according to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is touting the approach as a top licensing prospect in its
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
There was a unity of sorts as collectively we gawked at a political plot twist so strange, so unexpected, and so oddly compelling that everyone from the most dyed‑in‑the‑wool conservative in Waukesha to the most caffeinated liberal on Madison’s isthmus paused and said, “Wait… what?”
This is positively Shakespearean. What a wild ride of a governor’s race. You have Gov. Tony Evers as the aging King Lear, who fatally miscalculated when deciding how to divide his kingdom upon retirement, possibly pushing a guy who already quit back into the race over his former lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes.
New-on-the-scene businessman Jon Aleckson is making a serious challenge to win the 50th AD.
As the head of the Wisconsin Hospital Association, I can personally guarantee that you will find a “Price Transparency” link on the front page of every Wisconsin hospital website.
The decision to remove Flock cameras from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demonstrates that Wisconsin’s public-sector unions can still have an impact, even with Act 10 still on the books.
Trump has restarted and escalated his endless Iran War in a flurry of death, lawlessness and stupidity.
The Exonerated Five have long been cleared in the eyes of the law, but accountability also means acknowledging the rhetoric that helped shape one of the nation’s most infamous wrongful convictions.
Florida has long had a high execution rate, but in January 2025, DeSantis, a Trump acolyte, began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate. What followed, Times reporter Pamela Colloff tells us, was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades.
Apparently, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was so entranced by the prospect of being able to shovel “real money” to his boss, patron and former client Donald Trump, that he ignored the ethical obligations that govern his conduct as a lawyer.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the recent debate among GOP candidates for Wisconsin’s 7th CD.
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
— By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com If not for the running craze of the 1970s, Wisconsin’s Trek Bicycle Corp. might never have come to exist. Some five decades ago, Trek co-founder and serial entrepreneur Dick Burke became a running
A national group called the LIBRE Initiative is calling for loosening regulations on housing development in Wisconsin to improve affordability, with a focus on the state’s Hispanic community. Roel Sanchez, the grassroots engagement director for the group in Wisconsin and
Excerpt from Ben Wikler’s “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy”
Every year thousands of people fall prey to the whims of their local assessor. Even if you’ve made no improvements to your home, and even if local levy limits stay the same, your property tax bill can still go up.
But only a minority of counties use existing capabilities to send messages automatically
A rescission from the Trump administration that would strip Biden-era protections from LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system.
City Attorney Evan Goyke can help.
UW-Madison researchers are “paving the way for scalable and practical” quantum computing by using advanced sensors to improve the technology. That’s according to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is touting the approach as a top licensing prospect in its portfolio of engineering and computer science research from the university.
My party is being very much my party. Just as its crowded gubernatorial primary was coalescing around the candidate most likely to win in November, that candidate’s campaign stumbled hard, her less electable opponents pounced and, just like that, somebody else will get the nomination.
There was a unity of sorts as collectively we gawked at a political plot twist so strange, so unexpected, and so oddly compelling that everyone from the most dyed‑in‑the‑wool conservative in Waukesha to the most caffeinated liberal on Madison’s isthmus paused and said, “Wait… what?”
This is positively Shakespearean. What a wild ride of a governor’s race. You have Gov. Tony Evers as the aging King Lear, who fatally miscalculated when deciding how to divide his kingdom upon retirement, possibly pushing a guy who already quit back into the race over his former lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes.
New-on-the-scene businessman Jon Aleckson is making a serious challenge to win the 50th AD.
As the head of the Wisconsin Hospital Association, I can personally guarantee that you will find a “Price Transparency” link on the front page of every Wisconsin hospital website.
The decision to remove Flock cameras from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus demonstrates that Wisconsin’s public-sector unions can still have an impact, even with Act 10 still on the books.
Trump has restarted and escalated his endless Iran War in a flurry of death, lawlessness and stupidity.
The Exonerated Five have long been cleared in the eyes of the law, but accountability also means acknowledging the rhetoric that helped shape one of the nation’s most infamous wrongful convictions.
Florida has long had a high execution rate, but in January 2025, DeSantis, a Trump acolyte, began signing death warrants at an accelerated rate. What followed, Times reporter Pamela Colloff tells us, was the busiest period of executions in more than eight decades.
Apparently, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was so entranced by the prospect of being able to shovel “real money” to his boss, patron and former client Donald Trump, that he ignored the ethical obligations that govern his conduct as a lawyer.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the recent debate among GOP candidates for Wisconsin’s 7th CD.
Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
— By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com If not for the running craze of the 1970s, Wisconsin’s Trek Bicycle Corp. might never have come to exist. Some five decades ago, Trek co-founder and serial entrepreneur Dick Burke became a running enthusiast, eventually competing in Boston Marathons and numerous other races.
A national group called the LIBRE Initiative is calling for loosening regulations on housing development in Wisconsin to improve affordability, with a focus on the state’s Hispanic community. Roel Sanchez, the grassroots engagement director for the group in Wisconsin and a former real estate agent, said “we are in one
Excerpt from Ben Wikler’s “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy”