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Small-town folk must understand that Democrats seek to improve their lives if we hope to find reconciliation.

If there is a lesson to be learned from McCarthy’s actions following Donald Trump‘s election loss in 2020 it is that principle and core values must not be tossed aside all for the anticipation and glory of future political power.

Democrats are calling for Rep.-elect George Santos to resign after he acknowledged “resume embellishment” in an interview.

Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald will likely be reelected again and again in their safely gerrymandered districts, but neither one will escape the judgment of history.

Federal agencies pursuing partisan agendas unrelated to core missions is the final subversion of government.

Past records of futility aside, Forecasters members have boldly tried again. Here’s what the Forecasters see for 2023

It will be an off-off year. No national races, no legislative races, except a special election here and there. But still a lot will happen in 2023. Here’s what we can anticipate.

Wisconsin’s Medicaid fund is now projected to finish the fiscal year with a $774.8 million surplus — $269.9 million more than what was expected three months ago — in another shot of good news for the state’s bottom line.
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Gov. Tony Evers called his reelection the rejection of a “return to the bitter politics of resentment” as he called for the Capitol to work together on goals such as funding schools and overturning the state’s 174-year-old abortion ban.

Two months ago, the Democratic incumbent surpassed expectations by winning re-election by more than three percentage points. He and I talked Monday for a half-hour in his East Wing office, my questions often echoing a conversation we had on the eve of his first inauguration four years ago.

Johnson wrongheadedly denounced the bipartisan omnibus appropriations bill as “an abomination.” An out of touch Johnson voted against Wisconsin by trying to eliminate necessary earmarks (not pork).

The $1.7 trillion – TRILLION – omnibus spending spree that Congress passed before running home for the holidays is a perfect example of how dysfunctional Congress has become.

The contest for an open seat of the state Supreme Court has the potential to tip the balance of the court away from the fringe right-wing politicization that has defined it in recent years and toward a renewed respect for the rule of law.

Small-town folk must understand that Democrats seek to improve their lives if we hope to find reconciliation.

If there is a lesson to be learned from McCarthy’s actions following Donald Trump‘s election loss in 2020 it is that principle and core values must not be tossed aside all for the anticipation and glory of future political power.

Democrats are calling for Rep.-elect George Santos to resign after he acknowledged “resume embellishment” in an interview.

Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald will likely be reelected again and again in their safely gerrymandered districts, but neither one will escape the judgment of history.

Federal agencies pursuing partisan agendas unrelated to core missions is the final subversion of government.

Past records of futility aside, Forecasters members have boldly tried again. Here’s what the Forecasters see for 2023

It will be an off-off year. No national races, no legislative races, except a special election here and there. But still a lot will happen in 2023. Here’s what we can anticipate.

Wisconsin’s Medicaid fund is now projected to finish the fiscal year with a $774.8 million surplus — $269.9 million more than what was expected three months ago — in another shot of good news for the state’s bottom line.
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Gov. Tony Evers called his reelection the rejection of a “return to the bitter politics of resentment” as he called for the Capitol to work together on goals such as funding schools and overturning the state’s 174-year-old abortion ban.

Two months ago, the Democratic incumbent surpassed expectations by winning re-election by more than three percentage points. He and I talked Monday for a half-hour in his East Wing office, my questions often echoing a conversation we had on the eve of his first inauguration four years ago.

Johnson wrongheadedly denounced the bipartisan omnibus appropriations bill as “an abomination.” An out of touch Johnson voted against Wisconsin by trying to eliminate necessary earmarks (not pork).

The $1.7 trillion – TRILLION – omnibus spending spree that Congress passed before running home for the holidays is a perfect example of how dysfunctional Congress has become.

The contest for an open seat of the state Supreme Court has the potential to tip the balance of the court away from the fringe right-wing politicization that has defined it in recent years and toward a renewed respect for the rule of law.