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It was a blustery, grey Saturday afternoon on March 15 as about 40 people wearing togas, carrying signs and waving upside-down American flags gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Madison to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the current administration’s assault on democracy.
For anyone who has had the tough assignment of downsizing a business or an organization, DOGE is a joke.
He issued a warning for what he fears will be the end result of Trump’s return to office.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on the Wisconsin economy. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
There are free-market solutions to storing or using spent nuclear fuel.
It was a fight between two attack dogs and I thought Crawford came out a little bit on top. The only question is if either candidate provided a sound bite for an attack ad.
Judge Susan ‘Catch-and-Release Crawford’s agenda is bad for America.
Fresh from spending nearly $300 million to influence the 2024 elections, the richest person in the world has set his sights squarely on Wisconsin.
An octopus’s garden of left-wing ideology: Ending mandatory Bar associations and defenestrating the national ABA is one more necessary step to restoring truly free speech in our state and society as a whole.
Governor Tony Evers recent verbiage controversy has been ridiculed and joked about by many. However, there is a nefarious aspect to Evers “creative” wordsmithing in the recent budget bill before the state legislature.
Trump/Musk cuts hurt a popular government program and many workers who back MAGA.
This vulgar display of authoritarian over-reach by the Trump Administration is not more than we predicted in general terms last fall, but still is most galling and preposterous to see in operation.
Not only have the geniuses paused most foreign aid, cuttig off food and medical help for starving kids in poverty-stricken areas around the world, they’ve also stopped U.S. help to clear land mines that continue to kill and maim innocent people in former war zones.
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
It was a blustery, grey Saturday afternoon on March 15 as about 40 people wearing togas, carrying signs and waving upside-down American flags gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Madison to protest Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the current administration’s assault on democracy.
For anyone who has had the tough assignment of downsizing a business or an organization, DOGE is a joke.
He issued a warning for what he fears will be the end result of Trump’s return to office.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on the Wisconsin economy. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
There are free-market solutions to storing or using spent nuclear fuel.
It was a fight between two attack dogs and I thought Crawford came out a little bit on top. The only question is if either candidate provided a sound bite for an attack ad.
Judge Susan ‘Catch-and-Release Crawford’s agenda is bad for America.
Fresh from spending nearly $300 million to influence the 2024 elections, the richest person in the world has set his sights squarely on Wisconsin.
An octopus’s garden of left-wing ideology: Ending mandatory Bar associations and defenestrating the national ABA is one more necessary step to restoring truly free speech in our state and society as a whole.
Governor Tony Evers recent verbiage controversy has been ridiculed and joked about by many. However, there is a nefarious aspect to Evers “creative” wordsmithing in the recent budget bill before the state legislature.
Trump/Musk cuts hurt a popular government program and many workers who back MAGA.
This vulgar display of authoritarian over-reach by the Trump Administration is not more than we predicted in general terms last fall, but still is most galling and preposterous to see in operation.
Not only have the geniuses paused most foreign aid, cuttig off food and medical help for starving kids in poverty-stricken areas around the world, they’ve also stopped U.S. help to clear land mines that continue to kill and maim innocent people in former war zones.
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
