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Madison, WI — Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin (AFP-WI) welcomes President Trump back to America’s Dairyland for his first visit since winning re-election, highlighting the administration’s efforts to expand markets and reduce costs for Wisconsin farmers. AFP-WI Legislative Director Jerry Ponio issued the following
MADISON, Wis.—The Universities of Wisconsin will host a series of public listening sessions across the state next week as part of the ongoing search for the next Universities of Wisconsin President. The sessions are designed to gather input from students,
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced a public listening session to gather feedback from individuals and communities about the agency’s PFAS law program development. 2025 Wisconsin Act 200 and 2025 Wisconsin Act 201 authorize the DNR
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at efforts to appeal lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines after three-judge panels dismissed them. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Today’s threat to mobile home parks echoes the loss of another affordable housing option: single-room occupancy units.
That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), together with the Iowa Department of Transportation, are announcing a key milestone in the IA 9 / WIS 82 Mississippi River Bridge project. The center span of the new bridge will be installed on Thursday,
MADISON, Wis. – June 5, 2026 – Wisconsin’s Edvest 529 college savings plan has achieved a major milestone in reaching $7 billion in assets under management. The growth has prompted another reduction in the plan’s plan manager fee to just 0.04%
Ahead of Trump’s visit to the Chippewa Valley today, DCCC spokesperson Katie Smith released the following statement: “Derrick Van Orden hauls in his elite friends from Washington to remind Wisconsin families the reason why they’re hurting: because Van Orden does
MUSKEGO, WI — Pete Karas filed his nomination papers to run for Wisconsin Secretary of State as a Green Party candidate. Today, someone hired a law firm to make sure you never get to vote for him. A verified challenge was
MADISON, Wis. — In anticipation of Trump’s visit to Wisconsin today, A Better Wisconsin Together is setting the record straight on how the MAGA agenda has devastated rural Wisconsin communities, all thanks to Trump’s Badger State Bestie Tom Tiffany. “Donald Trump
LA CROSSE, WI. – Rebecca Cooke has built her campaign around her family’s farm story, but her CCP-linked, anti-energy allies undercuts her claims to be a champion for agriculture and rural Wisconsin. Cooke is backed by the Natural Resources Defense
Madison, WI — Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin (AFP-WI) welcomes President Trump back to America’s Dairyland for his first visit since winning re-election, highlighting the administration’s efforts to expand markets and reduce costs for Wisconsin farmers. AFP-WI Legislative Director Jerry Ponio issued the following statement: “President Trump’s visit comes at an important t… Please
MADISON, Wis.—The Universities of Wisconsin will host a series of public listening sessions across the state next week as part of the ongoing search for the next Universities of Wisconsin President. The sessions are designed to gather input from students, faculty, staff, and community members to help inform the qualities
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced a public listening session to gather feedback from individuals and communities about the agency’s PFAS law program development. 2025 Wisconsin Act 200 and 2025 Wisconsin Act 201 authorize the DNR to develop programs to understand the prevalence of PFAS throughout
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at efforts to appeal lawsuits challenging Wisconsin’s congressional lines after three-judge panels dismissed them. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Today’s threat to mobile home parks echoes the loss of another affordable housing option: single-room occupancy units.
That Democrats have any chance at all there is owing and due to fear and loathing of Donald Trump.
While no system is perfect, the decentralized administration of all elections in Wisconsin comes with multiple checks and balances – mainly because much of the work is done by ordinary people in cities, counties, villages and towns. These supervised poll workers are largely volunteers accountable to their own communities.
The surplus deal, which failed to pass in the Senate last month, may not be dead.
School district now faces lawsuit and federal investigation
Among my collection of books on Wisconsin’s famed Progressive Party and the family of “Fighting Bob” La Follette is one by professor Patrick Maney, an acclaimed historian and accomplished author who grew up in Wisconsin and recently retired from the history faculty at Boston College.
As an evangelical Christian, it is important to me that our immigration policies do everything they reasonably can to keep families together. But it’s not just me.
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weaker. Standing up to power is hard to replicate.
The firing is a step toward restoring public trust in media.
The Founding Fathers had plenty of flaws. But they would never believe this would come to pass in the republic they cherished. They had standards. They would weep with me. All in time for the Fourth of July, the nation’s 250th birthday.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), together with the Iowa Department of Transportation, are announcing a key milestone in the IA 9 / WIS 82 Mississippi River Bridge project. The center span of the new bridge will be installed on Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12 in a process that
MADISON, Wis. – June 5, 2026 – Wisconsin’s Edvest 529 college savings plan has achieved a major milestone in reaching $7 billion in assets under management. The growth has prompted another reduction in the plan’s plan manager fee to just 0.04% (4 basis points). Effective June 1, 2026, all existing Edvest
Ahead of Trump’s visit to the Chippewa Valley today, DCCC spokesperson Katie Smith released the following statement: “Derrick Van Orden hauls in his elite friends from Washington to remind Wisconsin families the reason why they’re hurting: because Van Orden does D.C.’s bidding. He rubberstamps the reckless war driving up the
MUSKEGO, WI — Pete Karas filed his nomination papers to run for Wisconsin Secretary of State as a Green Party candidate. Today, someone hired a law firm to make sure you never get to vote for him. A verified challenge was filed this morning with the Wisconsin Elections Commission targeting Karas’s
MADISON, Wis. — In anticipation of Trump’s visit to Wisconsin today, A Better Wisconsin Together is setting the record straight on how the MAGA agenda has devastated rural Wisconsin communities, all thanks to Trump’s Badger State Bestie Tom Tiffany. “Donald Trump said it himself: Tom Tiffany has always been at his
LA CROSSE, WI. – Rebecca Cooke has built her campaign around her family’s farm story, but her CCP-linked, anti-energy allies undercuts her claims to be a champion for agriculture and rural Wisconsin. Cooke is backed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a radical climate group that is hellbent on