
Michael Jahr: Successful policy reforms in peril
School choice, workers’ rights and fiscal responsibility at stake in court race.
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School choice, workers’ rights and fiscal responsibility at stake in court race.
These changes, if adopted, are simply the latest in a long line of constitutional amendments that have severely limited — or eliminated altogether — the right to bail.
We need to know more truth about the contributions of Black people and of women because we don’t know enough information about either subject.
The time is now to expand Medicaid in our state. Here are five reasons why.
Preventing and addressing toxic pollution in our waters is a major national priority to protect public health. Regulators and legislators must do much more to protect Wisconsinites from water contamination like PFAS, or toxic forever chemicals.
An inside look at the cops, crimes, and human beings wrapped up in this deadly statewide problem.
Today clubs provide alternative options to child care while positively impacting the future of our young people.
Some presidents want to make money, some want to make trouble, some want to make history. Jimmy Carter wanted simply to make a difference.
President Joe Biden raised arms control to a top policy priority, but that is now unraveling.
The acrimony continues to rise in the days leading up to the pivotal April 4 election.
The election for Supreme Court justice on April 4 is truly the most important and consequential election in Wisconsin this decade. Why? Because the outcome will affect virtually every major issue in Wisconsin.
Protasiewicz has been campaigning by sharing her “values,” telegraphing her political preferences to voters with a brazen audacity beyond anything we’ve seen in the modern history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And her record on the bench is equally disqualifying, displaying a consistent pattern of giving low bail and short sentences for violent criminals.
Your vote is too valuable to squander. If it weren’t, no one would be spending millions trying to buy it.
Supporting both ballot amendment questions will improve our bail system and ensure judges uniformly apply cash bail standards to protect us from dangerous criminals, thus making Wisconsin safer.
Until fair maps exist we are without a voice in our government. It is time to call for binding referendums on issues important to Wisconsinites such as voting rights, drinking water free of forever chemicals, fair voting maps, reproductive rights and sensible gun regulations if we are to have a government “of, by and for the people.”
School choice, workers’ rights and fiscal responsibility at stake in court race.
These changes, if adopted, are simply the latest in a long line of constitutional amendments that have severely limited — or eliminated altogether — the right to bail.
We need to know more truth about the contributions of Black people and of women because we don’t know enough information about either subject.
The time is now to expand Medicaid in our state. Here are five reasons why.
Preventing and addressing toxic pollution in our waters is a major national priority to protect public health. Regulators and legislators must do much more to protect Wisconsinites from water contamination like PFAS, or toxic forever chemicals.
An inside look at the cops, crimes, and human beings wrapped up in this deadly statewide problem.
Today clubs provide alternative options to child care while positively impacting the future of our young people.
Some presidents want to make money, some want to make trouble, some want to make history. Jimmy Carter wanted simply to make a difference.
President Joe Biden raised arms control to a top policy priority, but that is now unraveling.
The acrimony continues to rise in the days leading up to the pivotal April 4 election.
The election for Supreme Court justice on April 4 is truly the most important and consequential election in Wisconsin this decade. Why? Because the outcome will affect virtually every major issue in Wisconsin.
Protasiewicz has been campaigning by sharing her “values,” telegraphing her political preferences to voters with a brazen audacity beyond anything we’ve seen in the modern history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And her record on the bench is equally disqualifying, displaying a consistent pattern of giving low bail and short sentences for violent criminals.
Your vote is too valuable to squander. If it weren’t, no one would be spending millions trying to buy it.
Supporting both ballot amendment questions will improve our bail system and ensure judges uniformly apply cash bail standards to protect us from dangerous criminals, thus making Wisconsin safer.
Until fair maps exist we are without a voice in our government. It is time to call for binding referendums on issues important to Wisconsinites such as voting rights, drinking water free of forever chemicals, fair voting maps, reproductive rights and sensible gun regulations if we are to have a government “of, by and for the people.”