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While the world watches DOGE destroy wasteful spending at USAID, a rogue agency in Milwaukee might actually be worse.
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While the world watches DOGE destroy wasteful spending at USAID, a rogue agency in Milwaukee might actually be worse.

Many of the leaders behind the rollout of Justified Anger’s “Our Madison Plan” will convene this May, 10 years later, for a symposium to assess the city’s progress on racial equity since then.

We want to ensure that returning citizens can find what they need to succeed for themselves, their families, and society.

The accountability missing in Wisconsin’s public education system is driving improvements elsewhere, even in places where it’s most difficult: Louisiana and Mississippi

Strong public support for booting out serious criminals.

The Democrats need a new team of frontline spokesDems.

Legislation permits direct primary care to complement insurance.

Girls who play sports before reaching college have higher levels of self-esteem, lower chances of developing depression and better body images compared to those who do not.

The legislative branch has abdicated its responsibility, and the power of the judiciary may have been neutralized because of the absence of an enforcement mechanism.

Farm programs are broken and fragmented, leaving countless gaps where American farmers can slip between the cracks. Fixing this requires much deeper change.

Musk, Trump and DOGE are reclaiming the money the left has stolen from us.

We just received another wakeup call on health care in Wisconsin, where costs are too high, public health outcomes have plummeted, and our governor has hit the snooze button.

We Energies’ proposed gas plants are not just unnecessary — they’re a long-term financial burden on ratepayers.

Legislators should work to help elderly people on fixed incomes, and the young family in their first home, afford the property taxes their policies of starving public schools and micromanaging local governments are foisting on them.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson champions Trump from the sidelines.

For the millions struggling with electoral grief, experts recommend focusing on what you can control.

We’ll focus on the context and impact, not the chaos.

Hospitals in state and metro area have further cut the percent of revenue for this.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘America was given its colored people a bad check, marked ‘insufficient funds.” Do you believe this still holds today?

It was never about DEI. DEI was only the crumbs they allowed us to have, while simultaneously undermining any advancement with harmful policies.

While the world watches DOGE destroy wasteful spending at USAID, a rogue agency in Milwaukee might actually be worse.

Many of the leaders behind the rollout of Justified Anger’s “Our Madison Plan” will convene this May, 10 years later, for a symposium to assess the city’s progress on racial equity since then.

We want to ensure that returning citizens can find what they need to succeed for themselves, their families, and society.

The accountability missing in Wisconsin’s public education system is driving improvements elsewhere, even in places where it’s most difficult: Louisiana and Mississippi

Strong public support for booting out serious criminals.

The Democrats need a new team of frontline spokesDems.

Legislation permits direct primary care to complement insurance.

Girls who play sports before reaching college have higher levels of self-esteem, lower chances of developing depression and better body images compared to those who do not.

The legislative branch has abdicated its responsibility, and the power of the judiciary may have been neutralized because of the absence of an enforcement mechanism.

Farm programs are broken and fragmented, leaving countless gaps where American farmers can slip between the cracks. Fixing this requires much deeper change.

Musk, Trump and DOGE are reclaiming the money the left has stolen from us.

We just received another wakeup call on health care in Wisconsin, where costs are too high, public health outcomes have plummeted, and our governor has hit the snooze button.

We Energies’ proposed gas plants are not just unnecessary — they’re a long-term financial burden on ratepayers.

Legislators should work to help elderly people on fixed incomes, and the young family in their first home, afford the property taxes their policies of starving public schools and micromanaging local governments are foisting on them.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson champions Trump from the sidelines.

For the millions struggling with electoral grief, experts recommend focusing on what you can control.

We’ll focus on the context and impact, not the chaos.

Hospitals in state and metro area have further cut the percent of revenue for this.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘America was given its colored people a bad check, marked ‘insufficient funds.” Do you believe this still holds today?

It was never about DEI. DEI was only the crumbs they allowed us to have, while simultaneously undermining any advancement with harmful policies.