
Steven Walters: A tale of two spending plans
Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.
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Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.
We are putting in the minimum, and this budget keeps us on the lowest tier as a state for investment in our public schools and our young children compared to other states. Meanwhile, we continue to be among the biggest spenders on our juvenile offenders.
Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish.
We Energies’ new natural gas plants will meet all local, state and federal environmental and health regulations.
Why legacy civil rights organizations need you now more than ever.
Of Milwaukee’s three Socialist Party mayors, the longest-serving was Dan Hoan. Elected to six terms over 24 years, Hoan was nationally recognized as an exceptional mayor.
Recall efforts against village board trustee Bill Landgraf gains needed signatures
City officials knew about the referendum requirement “from the beginning” but kept it hidden through 8 years of planning.
In Milwaukee alone, Target has contributed nearly $250,000 in guest-directed giving locally across areas like education, health, civil rights, human services, and youth-programs since 2020.
The similarities between what Project 2025 proposed and what Trump’s second administration has unleashed on Americans is striking, but now is not the time to be complacent and simply hope for change.
As federal agents continue their campaign of cruelty and fear, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said automation and “34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program” would fill the farm workforce gaps.
For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their
In the early hours of July 3, in the shadow of Trump’s ‘beautiful bill,’ Wisconsin passed a budget that exemplifies what compromise looks like.
We all knew this day was coming—the day when the radical Wisconsin Supreme Court would transfer virtually all legislative prerogative to the state’s collectivist bureaucracy.
Whether you consider nuclear energy a green energy or not, it is gaining a lot of attention in Wisconsin.
The 3rd CD race will be the most important 2026 Wisconsin congressional election.
No one was more adept at beating his chest about how bad the One Big Beautiful Bill was than our own Ron Johnson.
If any of the seven Wisconsin Republican congressmen try to tell you that they are fiscal conservatives, tell them you no longer buy their story.
Hurricane Katrina was a defining period in American history. It’s devastation, particularly in African-American neighborhoods, exposed deep structural and racial inequities in disaster response policies. Two decades later, everything and nothing have changed.
I can forgive undergraduate excesses, but our expectation should be for a much higher standard from the highest levels of our government.
Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.
We are putting in the minimum, and this budget keeps us on the lowest tier as a state for investment in our public schools and our young children compared to other states. Meanwhile, we continue to be among the biggest spenders on our juvenile offenders.
Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish.
We Energies’ new natural gas plants will meet all local, state and federal environmental and health regulations.
Why legacy civil rights organizations need you now more than ever.
Of Milwaukee’s three Socialist Party mayors, the longest-serving was Dan Hoan. Elected to six terms over 24 years, Hoan was nationally recognized as an exceptional mayor.
Recall efforts against village board trustee Bill Landgraf gains needed signatures
City officials knew about the referendum requirement “from the beginning” but kept it hidden through 8 years of planning.
In Milwaukee alone, Target has contributed nearly $250,000 in guest-directed giving locally across areas like education, health, civil rights, human services, and youth-programs since 2020.
The similarities between what Project 2025 proposed and what Trump’s second administration has unleashed on Americans is striking, but now is not the time to be complacent and simply hope for change.
As federal agents continue their campaign of cruelty and fear, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said automation and “34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program” would fill the farm workforce gaps.
For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their
In the early hours of July 3, in the shadow of Trump’s ‘beautiful bill,’ Wisconsin passed a budget that exemplifies what compromise looks like.
We all knew this day was coming—the day when the radical Wisconsin Supreme Court would transfer virtually all legislative prerogative to the state’s collectivist bureaucracy.
Whether you consider nuclear energy a green energy or not, it is gaining a lot of attention in Wisconsin.
The 3rd CD race will be the most important 2026 Wisconsin congressional election.
No one was more adept at beating his chest about how bad the One Big Beautiful Bill was than our own Ron Johnson.
If any of the seven Wisconsin Republican congressmen try to tell you that they are fiscal conservatives, tell them you no longer buy their story.
Hurricane Katrina was a defining period in American history. It’s devastation, particularly in African-American neighborhoods, exposed deep structural and racial inequities in disaster response policies. Two decades later, everything and nothing have changed.
I can forgive undergraduate excesses, but our expectation should be for a much higher standard from the highest levels of our government.