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The party is awash in cash so it has decided to spend $140 million on a campaign to better connect with rural America. That’s a good idea. But their strategy is questionable.
The husband-and-wife duo of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser will discuss their definitive book on the Trump presidency with David Maraniss at a special Cap Times Idea Fest session on Sept. 19.
We either have state statutes that have meaning and will be enforced across Wisconsin, or we have laws on the books that can be skirted and only applicable to certain people.
The need for worker education and protections
Here in Wisconsin, it is practically impossible to make a living educating young children while charging rates parents can afford to pay.
Sadly, in too many cases, society overlooks mental health care, leaving many people vulnerable to afflictions such as addiction, depression, anxiety and many other diseases. This stigmatization has leached into our politics.
Thirty years of problems beg fundamental change or permanent closure.
Microsoft, probably the most successful American corporation both by reputation and revenues, announced plans to invest $3.3 billion to build an AI data center by the end of 2026 on the campus that had been created for Foxconn.
The KC-46A Pegasus is a state-of-the-art air refueling tanker that could be housed in Milwaukee.
The way this city and region approaches transportation is unquestionably going in a different direction. Whether the full scope of change will be realized is another question. A squishy middle-ground is always more likely than a bold decision.
After 23 years on the Madison police force, Mike Hanson is retiring as captain of the downtown district.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the upcoming spring 2025 Supreme Court election, now an open seat that will determine ideological control of the court with liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s plan to retire. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
This year’s protests recall the classic demonstrations of the 1960s. However, these anti-Israel protests aren’t your parents’ or grandparents’ dissents of the past. They differ in important ways that are essential to understand.
Videos of protesters being beaten, tear-gassed and aggressively arrested across the county have been going viral on social media
A recent case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court threatened to replace the state’s legislative maps with new maps drawn by partisans and picked by the court. The case was ultimately mooted, but the bad social science advanced by the experts retained by the court deserves comment.
During the Walker administration, we enacted some of the boldest reforms in the nation. Five years later, Wisconsin still ranks second in the nation on the Federalism Scorecard issued by the State Policy Network.
It’s our responsibility to ensure teachers have the support to help all Wisconsin students.
The right to vote is one of our greatest rights and privileges. In order to protect that right, it is essential that our laws and procedures safeguard the integrity of our electoral system.
The people we met were not the “animals, thugs and drug dealers” of Donald Trump’s imagination. They were people desperately fleeing violence, crime, and corruption, seeking economic opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority wants to throw out a two-year-old case banning ballot drop boxes while at the same time blasting the US Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.
The party is awash in cash so it has decided to spend $140 million on a campaign to better connect with rural America. That’s a good idea. But their strategy is questionable.
The husband-and-wife duo of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser will discuss their definitive book on the Trump presidency with David Maraniss at a special Cap Times Idea Fest session on Sept. 19.
We either have state statutes that have meaning and will be enforced across Wisconsin, or we have laws on the books that can be skirted and only applicable to certain people.
The need for worker education and protections
Here in Wisconsin, it is practically impossible to make a living educating young children while charging rates parents can afford to pay.
Sadly, in too many cases, society overlooks mental health care, leaving many people vulnerable to afflictions such as addiction, depression, anxiety and many other diseases. This stigmatization has leached into our politics.
Thirty years of problems beg fundamental change or permanent closure.
Microsoft, probably the most successful American corporation both by reputation and revenues, announced plans to invest $3.3 billion to build an AI data center by the end of 2026 on the campus that had been created for Foxconn.
The KC-46A Pegasus is a state-of-the-art air refueling tanker that could be housed in Milwaukee.
The way this city and region approaches transportation is unquestionably going in a different direction. Whether the full scope of change will be realized is another question. A squishy middle-ground is always more likely than a bold decision.
After 23 years on the Madison police force, Mike Hanson is retiring as captain of the downtown district.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at the upcoming spring 2025 Supreme Court election, now an open seat that will determine ideological control of the court with liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s plan to retire. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
This year’s protests recall the classic demonstrations of the 1960s. However, these anti-Israel protests aren’t your parents’ or grandparents’ dissents of the past. They differ in important ways that are essential to understand.
Videos of protesters being beaten, tear-gassed and aggressively arrested across the county have been going viral on social media
A recent case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court threatened to replace the state’s legislative maps with new maps drawn by partisans and picked by the court. The case was ultimately mooted, but the bad social science advanced by the experts retained by the court deserves comment.
During the Walker administration, we enacted some of the boldest reforms in the nation. Five years later, Wisconsin still ranks second in the nation on the Federalism Scorecard issued by the State Policy Network.
It’s our responsibility to ensure teachers have the support to help all Wisconsin students.
The right to vote is one of our greatest rights and privileges. In order to protect that right, it is essential that our laws and procedures safeguard the integrity of our electoral system.
The people we met were not the “animals, thugs and drug dealers” of Donald Trump’s imagination. They were people desperately fleeing violence, crime, and corruption, seeking economic opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority wants to throw out a two-year-old case banning ballot drop boxes while at the same time blasting the US Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.
