Deja Vishny and Kristy Parker: As attorneys, we recognized judge’s courthouse arrest was not standard practice
Monday, Apr 28, 2025
We must remain on high alert to prevent further slide into authoritarianism.
We must remain on high alert to prevent further slide into authoritarianism.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has finalized aerial spraying plans for its 2025 Spongy Moth Suppression Program, with maps of the five selected treatment areas available online. The treatment sites are at three state parks in Juneau, Marinette
When it comes to arresting a judge and threatening a prison sentence for ensuring due process is carried out in a courthouse, well, that is a step that no American can allow Trump to ignore.
With universal school choice, there would be government schools, parochial schools, special needs schools, secular schools, neighborhood-founded and run schools, but all those who participate in the universal choice program would be public schools.
All state medical associations, including the Wisconsin Medical Society, urged Congress not to support the $880 billion in Medicaid cuts in the GOP-passed (preliminary) budget reconciliation bill.
As soon as Tuesday, April 29, Rep. Derrick Van Orden will cast a critical vote that will determine whether Congress will investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz over the ‘Signalgate’ controversy. Both Waltz and Hegseth
Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party.
MADISON— The ACLU of Wisconsin this week filed an amicus brief in two separate cases challenging the random revocation of international students’ visas at the University of Wisconsin and other universities throughout the state. The cases are pending in the
For 40% of America’s retirees, the payments they receive from Social Security makes up half or more of their total monthly income.
The governor has now visited five European countries in less than two years’ time, and if past performance is any indication of what’s to come, the ‘Evers Effect’ is likely to reduce, not increase, Wisconsin trade.
The order, which effectively dismantles Title VI protections established during the Obama and Biden administrations, has raised alarms about potential increases in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests that disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.
The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) is calling on the Trump Administration to investigate a Hispanic-only party hosted by the Tippecanoe Valley Middle School in Akron, Indiana. Non-Hispanic students were segregated and then denied access to
Debt reduction is a pressing need, but current remedies will likely hurt three of Wisconsin’s key industries – manufacturing, agriculture and science-based research. In the long run, it will be economic growth from those kinds of industries nationwide that reduces the national debt. Let’s keep that economic principle in mind.
Terms likes stagflation and the Misery Index have already come back into our vocabulary in 2025. It will take several years and a dramatic shift in leadership before we have a healthy domestic economy again.
While the cranes may have made progress, the nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined 43% since 1970, more than any other category, and are “in crisis,” according to the U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative’s “U.S. State of the Birds” report released last month.
Dorothy Day, in her decades of activism from the 1910s to the 1980s, made common cause with American socialists, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners and anti-war protesters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led a group of 41 Senators in calling out the Trump administration’s direct attacks on Head Start and demanding his Department of Health and Human Services immediately release Head Start funding, reverse the
MADISON, Wis. – With the conclusion of the 2024 deer hunting seasons, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) shares a summary of the year’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling efforts. For the 2024 season, the DNR focused its efforts on
HAYWARD – Parents from the grassroots Learn in My Shoes campaign will be among those who testify at legislative state budget hearings in Hayward on Monday, April 28, and Wausau on Tuesday, April 29. The hearings can be viewed live on Wisconsin
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers last week wrapped up his statewide tour celebrating Earth Week, during which he visited local parks, communities, fish hatcheries, conservation groups, and more across the state to celebrate Earth Day, Forest Appreciation Week, and Arbor Day. During his week-long celebrations, Gov. Evers highlighte… Please log in to access subscriber content.
We must remain on high alert to prevent further slide into authoritarianism.
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has finalized aerial spraying plans for its 2025 Spongy Moth Suppression Program, with maps of the five selected treatment areas available online. The treatment sites are at three state parks in Juneau, Marinette and Sauk counties. A total of 544 acres will be
When it comes to arresting a judge and threatening a prison sentence for ensuring due process is carried out in a courthouse, well, that is a step that no American can allow Trump to ignore.
With universal school choice, there would be government schools, parochial schools, special needs schools, secular schools, neighborhood-founded and run schools, but all those who participate in the universal choice program would be public schools.
All state medical associations, including the Wisconsin Medical Society, urged Congress not to support the $880 billion in Medicaid cuts in the GOP-passed (preliminary) budget reconciliation bill.
As soon as Tuesday, April 29, Rep. Derrick Van Orden will cast a critical vote that will determine whether Congress will investigate Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz over the ‘Signalgate’ controversy. Both Waltz and Hegseth repeatedly used the unsecure messaging app, Signal, to share highly-sensitive
Ben Wikler’s recent announcement that he’s stepping down as Wisconsin’s Democratic leader generated a volume of national coverage I’ve never seen for the head of a state party.
MADISON— The ACLU of Wisconsin this week filed an amicus brief in two separate cases challenging the random revocation of international students’ visas at the University of Wisconsin and other universities throughout the state. The cases are pending in the federal district court for the Western District of Wisconsin in
For 40% of America’s retirees, the payments they receive from Social Security makes up half or more of their total monthly income.
The governor has now visited five European countries in less than two years’ time, and if past performance is any indication of what’s to come, the ‘Evers Effect’ is likely to reduce, not increase, Wisconsin trade.
The order, which effectively dismantles Title VI protections established during the Obama and Biden administrations, has raised alarms about potential increases in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests that disproportionately impact Black and Brown students, and students with disabilities.
The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) is calling on the Trump Administration to investigate a Hispanic-only party hosted by the Tippecanoe Valley Middle School in Akron, Indiana. Non-Hispanic students were segregated and then denied access to the party, based on their race, to the school-sanctioned party
Debt reduction is a pressing need, but current remedies will likely hurt three of Wisconsin’s key industries – manufacturing, agriculture and science-based research. In the long run, it will be economic growth from those kinds of industries nationwide that reduces the national debt. Let’s keep that economic principle in mind.
Terms likes stagflation and the Misery Index have already come back into our vocabulary in 2025. It will take several years and a dramatic shift in leadership before we have a healthy domestic economy again.
While the cranes may have made progress, the nation’s grassland birds, spread across 320 million acres in 14 states, have declined 43% since 1970, more than any other category, and are “in crisis,” according to the U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative’s “U.S. State of the Birds” report released last month.
Dorothy Day, in her decades of activism from the 1910s to the 1980s, made common cause with American socialists, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners and anti-war protesters.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led a group of 41 Senators in calling out the Trump administration’s direct attacks on Head Start and demanding his Department of Health and Human Services immediately release Head Start funding, reverse the mass firing of Head Start staff, and stop gutting the
MADISON, Wis. – With the conclusion of the 2024 deer hunting seasons, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) shares a summary of the year’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling efforts. For the 2024 season, the DNR focused its efforts on increasing sample collection in designated 2024 Fall Priority Areas. As usual,
HAYWARD – Parents from the grassroots Learn in My Shoes campaign will be among those who testify at legislative state budget hearings in Hayward on Monday, April 28, and Wausau on Tuesday, April 29. The hearings can be viewed live on Wisconsin Eye’s website: https://wiseye.org. Parents involved in the grassroots Learn in My
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers last week wrapped up his statewide tour celebrating Earth Week, during which he visited local parks, communities, fish hatcheries, conservation groups, and more across the state to celebrate Earth Day, Forest Appreciation Week, and Arbor Day. During his week-long celebrations, Gov. Evers highlighte… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a