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A national view brought home.

A stand of old-growth hemlock forest in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Upper Michigan covers 35,000 acres, with some trees up to 400 years old, never logged.

Parent company Gannett announces 6% staff reduction, coming on heels of November layoffs at Milwaukee paper.
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Kaul in an interview with WisPolitics.com said the newly projected $6.6 billion budget surplus provides a “once-in-a generation opportunity.” In all, Kaul wants $95.7 million more in general purpose revenue and 67 more positions.

Republican Amy Loudenbeck today conceded to Dem Doug La Follette after the final county canvasses found the longtime secretary of state beating his GOP challenger by 7,442 votes. That’s a margin of 0.28 percent of all votes cast in the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, will be the featured guests at a WisPolitics.com luncheon today. See coverage in today’s PM

An expert with UW-Oshkosh says Wisconsin’s farming and food production industries present a “tremendous” opportunity for biogas in the state. UW-Oshkosh Director of Biogas Systems and Research Development Brian Langolf spoke Friday during an Appleton event hosted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin

No matter how you slice it, Wisconsin Democrats have a rural problem.

Now that Democrat Tony Evers has been reelected governor, it will be interesting to see if an even more Republican state Legislature will work with him, or even try to play fair.

The policies and the people that turned the red wave pink.

La Follette’s defeat of Loudenbeck was a big deal for Wisconsin democracy. It was also a noteworthy historical accomplishment for La Follette, who went into the 2022 election as one of the longest-serving statewide constitutional officers in American history.

No one would argue that the U.S. has an efficient or comprehensible healthcare system, but neutering pharmacy benefit managers would do nothing to improve it while increasing its cost for Badgers and people across the rest of the country.

If we want a return to normalcy, or, at least, if we want to avoid the inevitable slide into further despotism, we must drastically push our government back to the fringes of our lives.

A national view brought home.

A stand of old-growth hemlock forest in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Upper Michigan covers 35,000 acres, with some trees up to 400 years old, never logged.

Parent company Gannett announces 6% staff reduction, coming on heels of November layoffs at Milwaukee paper.
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Kaul in an interview with WisPolitics.com said the newly projected $6.6 billion budget surplus provides a “once-in-a generation opportunity.” In all, Kaul wants $95.7 million more in general purpose revenue and 67 more positions.

Republican Amy Loudenbeck today conceded to Dem Doug La Follette after the final county canvasses found the longtime secretary of state beating his GOP challenger by 7,442 votes. That’s a margin of 0.28 percent of all votes cast in the race, just outside the margin of 0.25 percent needed for
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists From WisPolitics.com … — Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, will be the featured guests at a WisPolitics.com luncheon today. See coverage in today’s PM Update. — Vos challenger Adam Steen got fewer votes in

An expert with UW-Oshkosh says Wisconsin’s farming and food production industries present a “tremendous” opportunity for biogas in the state. UW-Oshkosh Director of Biogas Systems and Research Development Brian Langolf spoke Friday during an Appleton event hosted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin Energy Institute. Biogas is a renewable energy source that’s produced

No matter how you slice it, Wisconsin Democrats have a rural problem.

Now that Democrat Tony Evers has been reelected governor, it will be interesting to see if an even more Republican state Legislature will work with him, or even try to play fair.

The policies and the people that turned the red wave pink.

La Follette’s defeat of Loudenbeck was a big deal for Wisconsin democracy. It was also a noteworthy historical accomplishment for La Follette, who went into the 2022 election as one of the longest-serving statewide constitutional officers in American history.

No one would argue that the U.S. has an efficient or comprehensible healthcare system, but neutering pharmacy benefit managers would do nothing to improve it while increasing its cost for Badgers and people across the rest of the country.

If we want a return to normalcy, or, at least, if we want to avoid the inevitable slide into further despotism, we must drastically push our government back to the fringes of our lives.