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The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the UW Board of Regents’ removal of Jay Rothman as Universities of Wisconsin president. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership.
As the mainstream media focuses on a handful of wedge issues designed to divide Wisconsinites, I penned this column to talk about two bills that united Democrats and Republicans.
What are the odds the soon-to-retire Republican leaders of the state Legislature are seriously considering Gov. Tony Evers’ call to end partisan gerrymandering?
In a single sentence, Chris Taylor named three issues tabbed by Democrats for the congressional and gubernatorial November elections: the federal government’s assault on individual rights and freedoms; sexual and physical violence against women and its consequences; and extreme income inequality and the struggles of those not among the wealthy.
By measuring family structure alongside academic and discipline outcomes, Wisconsin would gain clearer insight into which disparities are primarily school-based, context-based, or amenable to coordinated intervention.
The grassroots effort to free the beagles at Ridglan Farms goes back 10 years.
As Americans, we feel the impact of taxes at the federal, state and local levels this week, as well as throughout the year.
In the history of most communities, examples can be found of unlikely groups coming together to solve common problems. Some are small, and some are very significant.
Currently, Wisconsin has no statewide regulatory standards governing hyperscale data centers, leaving local communities to take on powerful big tech corporations in negotiations without any state-level guardrails.
Calling oversight of millions in spending and the potential lowering of student proficiency standards a “distraction” sure is dismissive. It also raises new questions about why the agency fought so hard to keep its work out of public view.
Democrats are winning using rules Scott Walker and Republicans passed into law.
Somebody’s playing politics with gerrymandering. Actually, I suspect everybody’s playing politics with gerrymandering.
Unwinding distortions in higher education starts to bite into student lending, college funding
The very fact that the status of the Pride flag at Stonewall, of all places, became a point of federal contention underscores the deeper absurdity of the moment we’re living in.
Partisan gerrymanders are incompatible with the text, design and structure of the Wisconsin constitution because they distort the legislative process.
It won’t be long before WI is the highest property tax state in America. In addition to out-of-control property taxes, WI’s current corporate tax rate of 7.9% is 12th highest in the nation.
Wisconsin families are struggling and stretched thin. Advocates recently have been sounding the alarms — when affordability is reduced to a mere talking point without a real plan.
During the Vietnam era, the draft exposed the fault lines of race and class with brutal honesty. Black men were drafted at higher rates, assigned to combat roles more frequently, and denied the deferments that wealthy and well-connected white men used to avoid service altogether.
Donald Trump, heal thyself!
As Trump blows vast amounts of money on his war, the administration has its sights on even more pain for the folks who can least afford it.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the UW Board of Regents’ removal of Jay Rothman as Universities of Wisconsin president. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center for Public Leadership.
As the mainstream media focuses on a handful of wedge issues designed to divide Wisconsinites, I penned this column to talk about two bills that united Democrats and Republicans.
What are the odds the soon-to-retire Republican leaders of the state Legislature are seriously considering Gov. Tony Evers’ call to end partisan gerrymandering?
In a single sentence, Chris Taylor named three issues tabbed by Democrats for the congressional and gubernatorial November elections: the federal government’s assault on individual rights and freedoms; sexual and physical violence against women and its consequences; and extreme income inequality and the struggles of those not among the wealthy.
By measuring family structure alongside academic and discipline outcomes, Wisconsin would gain clearer insight into which disparities are primarily school-based, context-based, or amenable to coordinated intervention.
The grassroots effort to free the beagles at Ridglan Farms goes back 10 years.
As Americans, we feel the impact of taxes at the federal, state and local levels this week, as well as throughout the year.
In the history of most communities, examples can be found of unlikely groups coming together to solve common problems. Some are small, and some are very significant.
Currently, Wisconsin has no statewide regulatory standards governing hyperscale data centers, leaving local communities to take on powerful big tech corporations in negotiations without any state-level guardrails.
Calling oversight of millions in spending and the potential lowering of student proficiency standards a “distraction” sure is dismissive. It also raises new questions about why the agency fought so hard to keep its work out of public view.
Democrats are winning using rules Scott Walker and Republicans passed into law.
Somebody’s playing politics with gerrymandering. Actually, I suspect everybody’s playing politics with gerrymandering.
Unwinding distortions in higher education starts to bite into student lending, college funding
The very fact that the status of the Pride flag at Stonewall, of all places, became a point of federal contention underscores the deeper absurdity of the moment we’re living in.
Partisan gerrymanders are incompatible with the text, design and structure of the Wisconsin constitution because they distort the legislative process.
It won’t be long before WI is the highest property tax state in America. In addition to out-of-control property taxes, WI’s current corporate tax rate of 7.9% is 12th highest in the nation.
Wisconsin families are struggling and stretched thin. Advocates recently have been sounding the alarms — when affordability is reduced to a mere talking point without a real plan.
During the Vietnam era, the draft exposed the fault lines of race and class with brutal honesty. Black men were drafted at higher rates, assigned to combat roles more frequently, and denied the deferments that wealthy and well-connected white men used to avoid service altogether.
Donald Trump, heal thyself!
As Trump blows vast amounts of money on his war, the administration has its sights on even more pain for the folks who can least afford it.
