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Money is the driving force behind government decision-making.

Let’s get new Fed leadership immediately and a new approach rather than waiting a year.

Saying things are better than you think proved to be a losing message. The loss can either be written off as a nightmare or treated as a teaching tool. If it’s the latter, Democrats will zero in on answering one question over all others: How can a pathway to the middle class be created for every single American?

Approaching elections with an open mind and taking the time to gather comprehensive information is crucial.

Expect progressives to launch a major assault on an “imperial” presidency when Trump takes office, the goal being to neuter the presidency and cement the power of the unelected administrative state as the true realization of democracy. The thinking traces back to Herbert Marcuse, the Guru of the 1960s New Left.

Expanding BadgerCare would close our health care affordability gap, allowing 90,000+ Wisconsin residents with lower incomes and their families to gain access to comprehensive and affordable health care coverage.

The FDA has approved several overdose reversal innovations over the last several years; however, access to these reversal agents is not currently permitted by the state’s 2023 standing orders, which allow nurses and physicians to provide communities products like naloxone without a prescription or patient order.

It barely got mentioned during the just-ended presidential campaign, but the world is embarked on yet another nuclear race, and the United States is leading it.

Of the 16 school districts in Dane County only one performs worse than Madison.

What an investigation into the alder’s behavior means, and what it doesn’t.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin talks about her reelection victory in Wisconsin.

His embrace of Donald Trump and RFK Jr. has soiled the ex-governor’s reputation.

Over the weekend, as California, Oregon, Washington and other Democratic states moved closer to completing their counts, Trump’s percentage of the popular vote moved narrowly below 50%.

Trump’s disrespect for the founding fathers, the American constitution they drafted and the separation of powers they created is showing up yet again as he attempts to end run the confirmation process in the U.S. Senate.

Its time for the Legislature to do its job and address reckless driving as the public health crisis that it is.

Grothman is helping expose the truth.

With a similar plan implemented over the state line thirty years ago there are major pitfalls that must be considered.

Although incumbency, coattails, or personalities seem to have had some minor effects, political geography was the predominate force in determining the Wisconsin Assembly election outcomes. Map makers of the future most assuredly need to take this into consideration.

Kessler, who was an expert in redistricting, led the charge for fair maps. That long and frustrating multiyear struggle culminated, only this year, with the drawing of district lines that restored competition in legislative races.

Democrats must step up, read the election results and cease denial. The lesson of the 2024 election is that the economy trumps all else.

Money is the driving force behind government decision-making.

Let’s get new Fed leadership immediately and a new approach rather than waiting a year.

Saying things are better than you think proved to be a losing message. The loss can either be written off as a nightmare or treated as a teaching tool. If it’s the latter, Democrats will zero in on answering one question over all others: How can a pathway to the middle class be created for every single American?

Approaching elections with an open mind and taking the time to gather comprehensive information is crucial.

Expect progressives to launch a major assault on an “imperial” presidency when Trump takes office, the goal being to neuter the presidency and cement the power of the unelected administrative state as the true realization of democracy. The thinking traces back to Herbert Marcuse, the Guru of the 1960s New Left.

Expanding BadgerCare would close our health care affordability gap, allowing 90,000+ Wisconsin residents with lower incomes and their families to gain access to comprehensive and affordable health care coverage.

The FDA has approved several overdose reversal innovations over the last several years; however, access to these reversal agents is not currently permitted by the state’s 2023 standing orders, which allow nurses and physicians to provide communities products like naloxone without a prescription or patient order.

It barely got mentioned during the just-ended presidential campaign, but the world is embarked on yet another nuclear race, and the United States is leading it.

Of the 16 school districts in Dane County only one performs worse than Madison.

What an investigation into the alder’s behavior means, and what it doesn’t.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin talks about her reelection victory in Wisconsin.

His embrace of Donald Trump and RFK Jr. has soiled the ex-governor’s reputation.

Over the weekend, as California, Oregon, Washington and other Democratic states moved closer to completing their counts, Trump’s percentage of the popular vote moved narrowly below 50%.

Trump’s disrespect for the founding fathers, the American constitution they drafted and the separation of powers they created is showing up yet again as he attempts to end run the confirmation process in the U.S. Senate.

Its time for the Legislature to do its job and address reckless driving as the public health crisis that it is.

Grothman is helping expose the truth.

With a similar plan implemented over the state line thirty years ago there are major pitfalls that must be considered.

Although incumbency, coattails, or personalities seem to have had some minor effects, political geography was the predominate force in determining the Wisconsin Assembly election outcomes. Map makers of the future most assuredly need to take this into consideration.

Kessler, who was an expert in redistricting, led the charge for fair maps. That long and frustrating multiyear struggle culminated, only this year, with the drawing of district lines that restored competition in legislative races.

Democrats must step up, read the election results and cease denial. The lesson of the 2024 election is that the economy trumps all else.