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Voting is important. However, protest is needed to push politicians to act.
Not a single currently eligible Wisconsin Medicaid enrollee is at risk of losing coverage under the current budget proposal. And nationwide, no children, elderly, or disabled enrollees are at risk either.
Today, it’s the fear of institutional or personal financial ruin at the hands of a vengeful government that uses federal funds like a lawbreaker uses blackmail.
Balancing the impact of Trump’s DEI policies on Black college campuses.
Trump’s executive order eliminating DEI jeopardizes those social and educational gains made in the past four decades.
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly approved a crime victims’ rights amendment to our state Constitution, known as Marsy’s Law.
Policy playbook shows how it could be done without taxpayer subsidies or taking up more land.
Our public schools are not failing. They are being sabotaged.
It takes three M’s to win in Wisconsin: message, manpower and money.
Whatever else it may represent, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is setting up to provide a great test of democratic resilience.
Will ROFR ensure future reliability, or are opponents correct in asserting that out-of-state transmission line expertise is just as good as what may be found at home? The coming weeks will tell which way the political currents flow.
How one classic “Star Trek” episode reflects our chosen reality.
Rather than labeling clean energy projects “the green new scam,” the Trump administration should embrace them as a key component of achieving “American energy dominance.”
End of federal money makes city scramble to cover operating costs of the Hop.
The Milwaukee County Board and Common Council formed a joint Housing Committee. It is the result of three years of meetings and effort by local leaders and more than 40 area organizations.
Dem lawmakers say keeping hedge funds from buying more single-family homes in the state would help address access and affordability issues in Wisconsin’s housing market. Sens. Sarah Keyeski of Lodi and Brad Pfaff of Onalaska, along with Reps. Kalan Haywood
Happily, within Wisconsin, we are inching back toward being the inclusive, compassionate, and even-handed state we once were.
This election doesn’t mean that voters have turned on Trump. It also isn’t really a referendum on him. It’s a statement that liberal voters are enraged at Trump, and it’s a referendum on how Democrats feel about Trump. It was bad timing.
The most important lesson of the 2025 Supreme Court race is that voters can stand up to the mind-boggling spree of destruction by MAGA nihilists.
We prefer to think of Tuesday, April 1, 2025 as a wake-up call, not a death knell.
Voting is important. However, protest is needed to push politicians to act.
Not a single currently eligible Wisconsin Medicaid enrollee is at risk of losing coverage under the current budget proposal. And nationwide, no children, elderly, or disabled enrollees are at risk either.
Today, it’s the fear of institutional or personal financial ruin at the hands of a vengeful government that uses federal funds like a lawbreaker uses blackmail.
Balancing the impact of Trump’s DEI policies on Black college campuses.
Trump’s executive order eliminating DEI jeopardizes those social and educational gains made in the past four decades.
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly approved a crime victims’ rights amendment to our state Constitution, known as Marsy’s Law.
Policy playbook shows how it could be done without taxpayer subsidies or taking up more land.
Our public schools are not failing. They are being sabotaged.
It takes three M’s to win in Wisconsin: message, manpower and money.
Whatever else it may represent, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is setting up to provide a great test of democratic resilience.
Will ROFR ensure future reliability, or are opponents correct in asserting that out-of-state transmission line expertise is just as good as what may be found at home? The coming weeks will tell which way the political currents flow.
How one classic “Star Trek” episode reflects our chosen reality.
Rather than labeling clean energy projects “the green new scam,” the Trump administration should embrace them as a key component of achieving “American energy dominance.”
End of federal money makes city scramble to cover operating costs of the Hop.
The Milwaukee County Board and Common Council formed a joint Housing Committee. It is the result of three years of meetings and effort by local leaders and more than 40 area organizations.
Dem lawmakers say keeping hedge funds from buying more single-family homes in the state would help address access and affordability issues in Wisconsin’s housing market. Sens. Sarah Keyeski of Lodi and Brad Pfaff of Onalaska, along with Reps. Kalan Haywood of Milwaukee and Karen DeSanto of Baraboo, recently sent a
Happily, within Wisconsin, we are inching back toward being the inclusive, compassionate, and even-handed state we once were.
This election doesn’t mean that voters have turned on Trump. It also isn’t really a referendum on him. It’s a statement that liberal voters are enraged at Trump, and it’s a referendum on how Democrats feel about Trump. It was bad timing.
The most important lesson of the 2025 Supreme Court race is that voters can stand up to the mind-boggling spree of destruction by MAGA nihilists.
We prefer to think of Tuesday, April 1, 2025 as a wake-up call, not a death knell.