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Developers need more certainty if housing market to rebound for middle earners.

Historic cuts jeopardize our health and wellbeing.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority should reject this challenge to the congressional map as it did the last one if it wants to retain even a shred of credibility.

Taxpayers will pay outside pathologists $30,000 to sort out the recriminations at the Madison Department of Civil Rights. In the meantime, the reality is that Director Norman Davis is guilty until proven innocent. That’s how woke works.

The Chicago Tribune informed us the next day that the last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during those Dust Bowl days in the early to mid-1930s.

If you are on two wheels when you are killed, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Trump, a mogul and dealmaker, aims to acquire Canada, Greenland and Gaza. Are these far-fetched whims? No.

Our self-anointed master deal-maker, President Donald Trump, gave away the store when he told Vladimir Putin at the get-go that he could keep the land he seized in Ukraine as part of a Trumpian peace deal. With that concession in hand, Putin did not decrease the hostilities against Ukraine; he ramped up his aggression to expand the seized territory.

New Marquette poll finds 56% approve of border security policies, only 34% on inflation and cost of living.

The head of Milwaukee-based customs broker M.E. Dey says “it’s going to be a busy Q2” as companies rush their imports and exports during the current tariff reprieve. Sandi Siegel, the company’s president and CEO, notes the international trade landscape

I hope that someone with a distinguished legal background and no obvious ideological or partisan leanings will step up to run.

Two maps of Wisconsin produced by the MacIver Institute reveal two very different political realities in the state.

We want our children to grow through sports — to learn discipline, resilience, teamwork. But how can they do that when they’re busy navigating unspoken racial double standards?

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the top of American society.

I urge our elected officials — especially those who have said they want to protect “the vulnerable” — to stop these irresponsible cuts to Medicaid.

The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), introduced last Congress, would inject competition into the marketplace and correct the failures that have allowed swipe fees to grow out of control.

Now that the media itself is admitting that the last two years of Joe Biden’s administration was a giant lie — that Biden was essentially senile and his staff was running the country — the important questions to ask are: How morally bankrupt are they, and how in the world did they think they could get away with it?

Orders are not laws, which is one reason courts keep tossing them out for exceeding the executive’s constitutional authority. Congress makes laws. That’s what the Constitution says. America should follow its founding document.
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An executive with Dairyland Power Cooperative says wind energy coupled with battery storage will be a “monster workhorse” for the western Wisconsin region where the co-op operates. Kevin Nordt is executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Dairyland, based

Developers need more certainty if housing market to rebound for middle earners.

Historic cuts jeopardize our health and wellbeing.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority should reject this challenge to the congressional map as it did the last one if it wants to retain even a shred of credibility.

Taxpayers will pay outside pathologists $30,000 to sort out the recriminations at the Madison Department of Civil Rights. In the meantime, the reality is that Director Norman Davis is guilty until proven innocent. That’s how woke works.

The Chicago Tribune informed us the next day that the last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during those Dust Bowl days in the early to mid-1930s.

If you are on two wheels when you are killed, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Trump, a mogul and dealmaker, aims to acquire Canada, Greenland and Gaza. Are these far-fetched whims? No.

Our self-anointed master deal-maker, President Donald Trump, gave away the store when he told Vladimir Putin at the get-go that he could keep the land he seized in Ukraine as part of a Trumpian peace deal. With that concession in hand, Putin did not decrease the hostilities against Ukraine; he ramped up his aggression to expand the seized territory.

New Marquette poll finds 56% approve of border security policies, only 34% on inflation and cost of living.

The head of Milwaukee-based customs broker M.E. Dey says “it’s going to be a busy Q2” as companies rush their imports and exports during the current tariff reprieve. Sandi Siegel, the company’s president and CEO, notes the international trade landscape remains fraught with volatility despite the U.S-UK trade deal announced

I hope that someone with a distinguished legal background and no obvious ideological or partisan leanings will step up to run.

Two maps of Wisconsin produced by the MacIver Institute reveal two very different political realities in the state.

We want our children to grow through sports — to learn discipline, resilience, teamwork. But how can they do that when they’re busy navigating unspoken racial double standards?

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the top of American society.

I urge our elected officials — especially those who have said they want to protect “the vulnerable” — to stop these irresponsible cuts to Medicaid.

The Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), introduced last Congress, would inject competition into the marketplace and correct the failures that have allowed swipe fees to grow out of control.

Now that the media itself is admitting that the last two years of Joe Biden’s administration was a giant lie — that Biden was essentially senile and his staff was running the country — the important questions to ask are: How morally bankrupt are they, and how in the world did they think they could get away with it?

Orders are not laws, which is one reason courts keep tossing them out for exceeding the executive’s constitutional authority. Congress makes laws. That’s what the Constitution says. America should follow its founding document.
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An executive with Dairyland Power Cooperative says wind energy coupled with battery storage will be a “monster workhorse” for the western Wisconsin region where the co-op operates. Kevin Nordt is executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Dairyland, based in La Crosse. He spoke yesterday during a Wisconsin Technology