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MADISON, Wis. — Right-wing Court of Appeals judge and candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court Maria Lazar has once again suggested that she’s not above using a seat on our state’s highest court to advance a right-wing political agenda. Lazar’s admission stems
MADISON, WI – The Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA), a partnership between the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA), has selected 42 small and medium-sized dairy businesses across the Midwest to receive approximately $4.6
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today took action on 34 bills. The bills signed by the governor today include efforts to keep kids, families, and communities safe, including roadway safety and increasing penalties for human trafficking and trafficking of a
MADISON – A bill authored by Rep. Dean Kaufert [R–Neenah] and Senator Julian Bradley [R–New Berlin] to help prevent disruptions of funeral processions was signed into law by the Governor today. The bill (AB 302), commonly called the “Purple Light”
MADISON, Wis. – In a new op-ed published today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and Law Forward attorneys Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder argue that the U.S. Supreme Court should reject attempts to further erode campaign finance
Menomonie, Wis. – The creators of a computer game about a doomed submarine had a real-life sinking feeling last May as the date of the Stout Game Expo (SGX) approached. After months of work on the claustrophobic, cooperative game Dread
MADISON, WI — Senator Melissa Ratcliff (D-Cottage Grove) applauds the federal approval of our state’s ambitious plan to deploy more than $1 billion in broadband funding — a landmark investment that will connect high-speed internet to more than 175,000 homes
MILWAUKEE (December 9, 2025) — Dohmen Company Foundation, a private foundation guided by a vision of ‘life without diet-related disease,’ today announced a three-year, $4 million investment in FoodCorps, a national nonprofit advancing child well-being through food in school. The investment
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released its 2024 Report on Water Withdrawals, which gives an overview of the past 10 years of water withdrawals throughout Wisconsin. Since the onset of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin requires water
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.
MADISON, WI (December 9, 2025) — Against the backdrop of a presidential transition and major shift in many federal government policies, along with a new technology revolution gathering steam, it is time to invite some special guests to the program to share what
Madison, WI – Yesterday, Wisconsin Democratic Legislators circulated their Keep Our Promise on Special Education Reimbursement legislation, which fulfills the state’s promise to our public schools to provide needed funding for special education. Our school’s need for special education instruction
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that the winter issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine is now available in print and online. Winter in Wisconsin brings unique opportunities to enjoy the outdoors, and the latest issue is packed
MADISON, Wis. — Right-wing Court of Appeals judge and candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court Maria Lazar has once again suggested that she’s not above using a seat on our state’s highest court to advance a right-wing political agenda. Lazar’s admission stems from a recent radio interview in which she bizarrely complained that right-wing
MADISON, WI – The Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA), a partnership between the Center for Dairy Research (CDR) and the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA), has selected 42 small and medium-sized dairy businesses across the Midwest to receive approximately $4.6 million in grants through the Dairy Business Innovation Alliance (DBIA).
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today took action on 34 bills. The bills signed by the governor today include efforts to keep kids, families, and communities safe, including roadway safety and increasing penalties for human trafficking and trafficking of a child, making changes to several medical related boards and joining
MADISON – A bill authored by Rep. Dean Kaufert [R–Neenah] and Senator Julian Bradley [R–New Berlin] to help prevent disruptions of funeral processions was signed into law by the Governor today. The bill (AB 302), commonly called the “Purple Light” Bill, allows funeral directors to utilize a flashing purple light
MADISON, Wis. – In a new op-ed published today in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and Law Forward attorneys Jeff Mandell and Rachel Snyder argue that the U.S. Supreme Court should reject attempts to further erode campaign finance laws as the Court hears arguments in NRSC v. FEC
Menomonie, Wis. – The creators of a computer game about a doomed submarine had a real-life sinking feeling last May as the date of the Stout Game Expo (SGX) approached. After months of work on the claustrophobic, cooperative game Dread Not, the team of 15 University of Wisconsin-Stout students were
MADISON, WI — Senator Melissa Ratcliff (D-Cottage Grove) applauds the federal approval of our state’s ambitious plan to deploy more than $1 billion in broadband funding — a landmark investment that will connect high-speed internet to more than 175,000 homes and businesses statewide. Senator Ratcliff also recognizes U.S. Senator Tammy
MILWAUKEE (December 9, 2025) — Dohmen Company Foundation, a private foundation guided by a vision of ‘life without diet-related disease,’ today announced a three-year, $4 million investment in FoodCorps, a national nonprofit advancing child well-being through food in school. The investment will support the development and launch of two groundbreaking initiatives
Wisconsin’s nightmare could become America’s reality: elections for sale to the highest bidder, and citizens’ voices drowned out by billionaires’ checkbooks.
The state Supreme Court has created two panels to review the Republican-drawn maps.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released its 2024 Report on Water Withdrawals, which gives an overview of the past 10 years of water withdrawals throughout Wisconsin. Since the onset of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin requires water users to register and annually report on any surface water
Wisconsin’s unemployment insurance system still taxes paychecks like it’s 1932.
When Democrats talk about the need to keep making “health care affordable,” but only offer up more subsidies and government intervention, they’re not serious about lowering costs.
Blue bureaucrats and their political partners aren’t interested in open scientific inquiry; they are interested in protecting those special interests who insist vaccines can’t and don’t play a role in autism.
As we observe World AIDS Day, we remember a champion who transformed how America understood HIV and AIDS. Hydeia Broadbent, the pioneering activist who passed away in February 2024 at age thirty-nine, spent her entire life fighting stigma and bringing hope to millions affected by the epidemic.
Ever since the Paris Climate Accords in 2015, 1.5 degrees Celsius has been the temperature many scientists talk about as a threshold for global warming. Few thought we had already blown by 1.5, until recently.
This recent blockade is part of a much longer pattern: Israel’s restrictions on the movement of food into Gaza actually date back to 1991, well before Hamas came into power in 2006.
MADISON, WI (December 9, 2025) — Against the backdrop of a presidential transition and major shift in many federal government policies, along with a new technology revolution gathering steam, it is time to invite some special guests to the program to share what they think lies ahead in the economy, financial markets, investment
Madison, WI – Yesterday, Wisconsin Democratic Legislators circulated their Keep Our Promise on Special Education Reimbursement legislation, which fulfills the state’s promise to our public schools to provide needed funding for special education. Our school’s need for special education instruction is increasing rapidly, and is greater than was projected in
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that the winter issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine is now available in print and online. Winter in Wisconsin brings unique opportunities to enjoy the outdoors, and the latest issue is packed with stories to help you embrace the season. Beautiful frozen