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Conservative groups who focus on candidate recruitment and training in Wisconsin say they have seen a distinct drop-off in the number of people volunteering to run for municipal and county positions this spring.
I’d like to see family and friends once again discuss issues with each other and tamp down the angry rhetoric.
State courts have become the only legal forum for challenging the partisan power grab or partisan congressional maps, since the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that those lawsuits cannot be brought in federal court.
For a month, politics was the last thing on my mind. But now, in-between exercises recommended by my wonderful physical and occupational therapists, I have time to read the news. Sadly, it seems it’s just as concerning as it was before.
Children go to school to learn to read and do math, not to be taught about sex.
The state’s got a projected $6.6 billion surplus and all Assembly Speaker Robin Vos can think about is even deeper tax cuts for the wealthy. My own view is that we should take a bunch of that money and pour it into kids.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants “significantly more” than half of the state’s projected $6.8 billion budget surplus to go to tax relief in the next biennial budget.
Progressive issues are much more popular than they’ve been given credit for.
Over the past few years, the Republican-controlled state Legislature has not only been stopping key protection efforts by the Stewardship Fund, but doing so in a secretive, underhanded and unaccountable way.
The senator’s switch to “independent” aligns her more completely with the special interests that she has so diligently represented since coming to the chamber.
Citing “1984,” George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarian repression, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has blocked portions of Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E. Act.”
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Property owners will pay $78.7 million more in school taxes this year, even though the state budget signed last summer aimed to drive down the annual bills. The Wisconsin Policy Forum cited the hundreds of school referendum that have passed since the 2021-23 budget was signed as one reason for the 1.5 percent increase in property taxes statewide to $5.48 billion
Conservative groups who focus on candidate recruitment and training in Wisconsin say they have seen a distinct drop-off in the number of people volunteering to run for municipal and county positions this spring.
I’d like to see family and friends once again discuss issues with each other and tamp down the angry rhetoric.
State courts have become the only legal forum for challenging the partisan power grab or partisan congressional maps, since the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that those lawsuits cannot be brought in federal court.
For a month, politics was the last thing on my mind. But now, in-between exercises recommended by my wonderful physical and occupational therapists, I have time to read the news. Sadly, it seems it’s just as concerning as it was before.
Children go to school to learn to read and do math, not to be taught about sex.
The state’s got a projected $6.6 billion surplus and all Assembly Speaker Robin Vos can think about is even deeper tax cuts for the wealthy. My own view is that we should take a bunch of that money and pour it into kids.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants “significantly more” than half of the state’s projected $6.8 billion budget surplus to go to tax relief in the next biennial budget.
Progressive issues are much more popular than they’ve been given credit for.
Over the past few years, the Republican-controlled state Legislature has not only been stopping key protection efforts by the Stewardship Fund, but doing so in a secretive, underhanded and unaccountable way.
The senator’s switch to “independent” aligns her more completely with the special interests that she has so diligently represented since coming to the chamber.
Citing “1984,” George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarian repression, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker has blocked portions of Florida’s “Stop W.O.K.E. Act.”
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Property owners will pay $78.7 million more in school taxes this year, even though the state budget signed last summer aimed to drive down the annual bills. The Wisconsin Policy Forum cited the hundreds of school referendum that have passed since the 2021-23 budget was signed as one reason for the 1.5 percent increase in property taxes statewide to $5.48 billion