Ashwaubenon, Wis. – Today, Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld toured the recently completed affordable workforce housing development funded through a $4.7 million Neighborhood Investment Fund grant from Governor Evers. The Secretary met with Ashwaubenon village leaders and executives from
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s PowerXchange annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas that USDA is moving forward on clean energy investments in 23 states to reduce pollution and
IOWA COUNTY, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice today announced that Philip G. Schmidt-Way, 29, of Loveland, Colo., was sentenced to life with the ability to petition for extended supervision after 20 years for the murder of his grandmother
MADISON, WI – MacIver Institute CEO Annette Olson released the following statement following the Biden administration’s announcement of a new rule to expand the current government price controls on credit card late fees: “Price controls always create winners and losers in the marketplace.
MADISON, Wis. — Following yesterday’s Super Tuesday primary elections in several states, MAGA faction leader Donald Trump, who spurred the violent and deadly January 6 insurrection after overwhelmingly losing the 2020 election and is facing 91 criminal charges against him, appears
WASHINGTON D.C. — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led a bipartisan press conference on legislation the pair introduced
MADISON, Wis. – Opportunity Wisconsin Program Director Meghan Roh released the following statement following the passage of six appropriations bills ahead of this week’s deadline: “After months of gridlock and dysfunction created by Republicans in Congress, the House finally passed six initial
MADISON, WI – On March 5, 2024, Senate Bill 568–relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls was removed from the Senate Committee on Government Operations and was re-referred to the Senate Committee
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MADISON, Wis.—Today, more than 150 outstanding undergraduate student researchers from across the Universities of Wisconsin, together with their faculty advisers, shared their research findings with state legislators, state business and nonprofit leaders, UW alumni, and other supporters at the UW’s
Monday’s release by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) of their initial draft proposal for a set of Tranche 2 transmission solutions and the potential number of projects in Wisconsin makes it even more important for the Wisconsin State Senate
Stephanie Bloomingdale, President of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, released the following statement as Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Labor Julie Su visit Wisconsin: “On the eve of the State of the Union Address, Vice President Kamala Harris is back in Wisconsin
In 2022, more than 1,800 Wisconsinites died of an overdose, including nearly 70 in Waukesha County.
While the inflation pressures have fallen significantly, corporations that set everyday prices haven’t necessarily followed along.
Budget surpluses suggest the obvious. Wisconsin doesn’t have a taxing problem. It has a spending problem. And leaving that money on the table so politicians can play Uncle Sugar makes it worse.
A 67-year old rape victim is orphaned by the broken ’system.’
Wisconsin’s smallest incorporated village is on a hill, and in a valley, too. Third in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State.
Rejecting this referendum is not a rejection of public schools; it is a call for long-needed accountability. We owe it to taxpayers. We owe it to employers. We owe it to parents. But most of all, we owe it to our students.
We’re used to seeing politicians with a “D” for Democrat or an “R” for Republican after their name. I wonder if that Republican “R” doesn’t also stand for Russia these days, because Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are looking more and more like Vladimir Putin’s patsies.
How did we get to this point where a professional editorial board at the Wisconsin State Journal allowed for the F-bomb to be published by using the syndicated work of editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette?
Ashwaubenon, Wis. – Today, Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) Secretary Kathy Blumenfeld toured the recently completed affordable workforce housing development funded through a $4.7 million Neighborhood Investment Fund grant from Governor Evers. The Secretary met with Ashwaubenon village leaders and executives from General Capital, for a tour of the Berkshire Ashwaubenon Apartments
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s PowerXchange annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas that USDA is moving forward on clean energy investments in 23 states to reduce pollution and strengthen rural America’s power grid. Today’s announcement includes the first
IOWA COUNTY, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice today announced that Philip G. Schmidt-Way, 29, of Loveland, Colo., was sentenced to life with the ability to petition for extended supervision after 20 years for the murder of his grandmother in Dodgeville, Wis. on July 19, 2021. Last month co-defendant
MADISON, WI – MacIver Institute CEO Annette Olson released the following statement following the Biden administration’s announcement of a new rule to expand the current government price controls on credit card late fees: “Price controls always create winners and losers in the marketplace. For the Biden administration’s new price cap on credit card
MADISON, Wis. — Following yesterday’s Super Tuesday primary elections in several states, MAGA faction leader Donald Trump, who spurred the violent and deadly January 6 insurrection after overwhelmingly losing the 2020 election and is facing 91 criminal charges against him, appears set to once again be Republicans’ presidential nominee. The following
WASHINGTON D.C. — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led a bipartisan press conference on legislation the pair introduced yesterday to prevent app store availability or web hosting services
MADISON, Wis. – Opportunity Wisconsin Program Director Meghan Roh released the following statement following the passage of six appropriations bills ahead of this week’s deadline: “After months of gridlock and dysfunction created by Republicans in Congress, the House finally passed six initial appropriations bills earlier today. But after months of shutdown threats
MADISON, WI – On March 5, 2024, Senate Bill 568–relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls was removed from the Senate Committee on Government Operations and was re-referred to the Senate Committee on Mental Health, Substance Abuse Prevention, Children and Families, where
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MADISON, Wis.—Today, more than 150 outstanding undergraduate student researchers from across the Universities of Wisconsin, together with their faculty advisers, shared their research findings with state legislators, state business and nonprofit leaders, UW alumni, and other supporters at the UW’s 20th annual Research in the Rotunda event in the State Capitol. “Undergraduate student…
Monday’s release by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) of their initial draft proposal for a set of Tranche 2 transmission solutions and the potential number of projects in Wisconsin makes it even more important for the Wisconsin State Senate to pass Assembly Bill 470 and protect Wisconsin’s ratepayers. “AB
Stephanie Bloomingdale, President of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, released the following statement as Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Labor Julie Su visit Wisconsin: “On the eve of the State of the Union Address, Vice President Kamala Harris is back in Wisconsin with Department of Labor Secretary Julie Su to meet with
In 2022, more than 1,800 Wisconsinites died of an overdose, including nearly 70 in Waukesha County.
While the inflation pressures have fallen significantly, corporations that set everyday prices haven’t necessarily followed along.
Budget surpluses suggest the obvious. Wisconsin doesn’t have a taxing problem. It has a spending problem. And leaving that money on the table so politicians can play Uncle Sugar makes it worse.
A 67-year old rape victim is orphaned by the broken ’system.’
Wisconsin’s smallest incorporated village is on a hill, and in a valley, too. Third in a series of profiles of persevering small towns in the Badger State.
Rejecting this referendum is not a rejection of public schools; it is a call for long-needed accountability. We owe it to taxpayers. We owe it to employers. We owe it to parents. But most of all, we owe it to our students.
We’re used to seeing politicians with a “D” for Democrat or an “R” for Republican after their name. I wonder if that Republican “R” doesn’t also stand for Russia these days, because Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are looking more and more like Vladimir Putin’s patsies.
How did we get to this point where a professional editorial board at the Wisconsin State Journal allowed for the F-bomb to be published by using the syndicated work of editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette?