
Mike Tate: We must win back trust in elections
Wisconsin has protections in place this year to make sure our elections are safe and show voters that our state is committed to ballot security.
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Wisconsin has protections in place this year to make sure our elections are safe and show voters that our state is committed to ballot security.
Wausau Mayor Doug Diny was carrying on his spat with the city clerk over the ballot box. He took a new low in Wisconsin politics and is now a national news story. This underscores why there is an interest, and a need to watch what Trump supporters are doing, ‘in our name.’
Wisconsin’s public schools are proving just how little taxpayers can trust them to be good stewards of their money.
The achievement of SOP 575 emerged out of the grief, rage and demand for better from the relatives of those killed by police, and it highlights what diligent grassroots organizing against police crimes can accomplish.
Cities across America with the strictest gun laws, like New York, DC, and Chicago, have some of the highest violent crime rates. Adding more restrictions would be wrong and dangerous.
There is only one solution to stopping gun violence, and that’s legislative action that prevents the wrong people from getting guns in their hands and causing harm to themselves or others.
Let’s not ‘Shake It Off’ as a one time event, Wisconsin. Let’s keep that big voter registration energy up!
It would help if candidates would quit framing this election as likely the last free election, if they would not propose suspending the Constitution, or prosecuting novel legal cases, or casting their opponents as evil. It would also help if people would quit shooting at our candidates!
Gallagher provided yet another opportunity for the GOP to take an exit ramp and start a serious discussion about the obviously crazy and dangerous elements that are destroying a once proud and historically relevant political party.
In a New York Times report last week from Caddo, Oklahoma, a small town near the Texas border where four out of five voters picked Trump in the last election, it appears that a lot more than the “left” thinks requiring Bible instruction in schools isn’t a good idea.
Sweeping tax increases, passed last year after Democrats got control of both houses of the Legislature, while the state sat on a COVID-fueled $17.5 billion surplus, has Minnesotans, particularly along the border counties with Wisconsin, apoplectic.
Will university departments be constrained from championing ways to improve government?
While the carnage from reckless driving persists, Milwaukee’s answer is to waste money on gimmicks like ‘visual art’ designed to raise awareness.
In a tragic twist of fate, Milwaukee’s ridiculous art car breaks down at the same time as its criminal justice system.
It’s time to set the record straight and ensure election administration follows professional best practices, not political agendas. Drop boxes are a secure tool that make voting easier for all Americans, and banning or casting doubt on the jurisdictions that use them only serves to undermine our democracy.
The former Wisconsin governor says Trump must campaign “in the belly of the beast.”
In a race as tight as this year’s, even losing by less in a rural area can make all the difference.
As she mounts a campaign against controversial Republican incumbent Derrick Van Orden, Cooke talks a lot about her family history, and about the “values of service” she learned growing up on a dairy farm near Eau Claire.
Truly, Idea Fest 2024 was our year of incredible women.
U.S. Education Secretary Cardona shows little understanding of Wisconsin school funding or educational realities.
Wisconsin has protections in place this year to make sure our elections are safe and show voters that our state is committed to ballot security.
Wausau Mayor Doug Diny was carrying on his spat with the city clerk over the ballot box. He took a new low in Wisconsin politics and is now a national news story. This underscores why there is an interest, and a need to watch what Trump supporters are doing, ‘in our name.’
Wisconsin’s public schools are proving just how little taxpayers can trust them to be good stewards of their money.
The achievement of SOP 575 emerged out of the grief, rage and demand for better from the relatives of those killed by police, and it highlights what diligent grassroots organizing against police crimes can accomplish.
Cities across America with the strictest gun laws, like New York, DC, and Chicago, have some of the highest violent crime rates. Adding more restrictions would be wrong and dangerous.
There is only one solution to stopping gun violence, and that’s legislative action that prevents the wrong people from getting guns in their hands and causing harm to themselves or others.
Let’s not ‘Shake It Off’ as a one time event, Wisconsin. Let’s keep that big voter registration energy up!
It would help if candidates would quit framing this election as likely the last free election, if they would not propose suspending the Constitution, or prosecuting novel legal cases, or casting their opponents as evil. It would also help if people would quit shooting at our candidates!
Gallagher provided yet another opportunity for the GOP to take an exit ramp and start a serious discussion about the obviously crazy and dangerous elements that are destroying a once proud and historically relevant political party.
In a New York Times report last week from Caddo, Oklahoma, a small town near the Texas border where four out of five voters picked Trump in the last election, it appears that a lot more than the “left” thinks requiring Bible instruction in schools isn’t a good idea.
Sweeping tax increases, passed last year after Democrats got control of both houses of the Legislature, while the state sat on a COVID-fueled $17.5 billion surplus, has Minnesotans, particularly along the border counties with Wisconsin, apoplectic.
Will university departments be constrained from championing ways to improve government?
While the carnage from reckless driving persists, Milwaukee’s answer is to waste money on gimmicks like ‘visual art’ designed to raise awareness.
In a tragic twist of fate, Milwaukee’s ridiculous art car breaks down at the same time as its criminal justice system.
It’s time to set the record straight and ensure election administration follows professional best practices, not political agendas. Drop boxes are a secure tool that make voting easier for all Americans, and banning or casting doubt on the jurisdictions that use them only serves to undermine our democracy.
The former Wisconsin governor says Trump must campaign “in the belly of the beast.”
In a race as tight as this year’s, even losing by less in a rural area can make all the difference.
As she mounts a campaign against controversial Republican incumbent Derrick Van Orden, Cooke talks a lot about her family history, and about the “values of service” she learned growing up on a dairy farm near Eau Claire.
Truly, Idea Fest 2024 was our year of incredible women.
U.S. Education Secretary Cardona shows little understanding of Wisconsin school funding or educational realities.