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Since 2006, the county’s ability to raise the necessary revenue has been restricted by state law, and it has not kept pace with the rising costs of providing essential services. Each year, Waukesha County residents contribute approximately $1.5 billion in sales and income taxes to the state government in Madison. In return, our county receives just $60 million back in state aid.
After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator for financial assistance during the last 18 months even as its $22 million budget hole became apparent.
Career politicians in Washington have continually ignored the urgent pleas of families and individuals impacted by the fentanyl crisis, allowing the epidemic to not only continue but to worsen. Immediate and real change is needed.
Baldwin led in passing and improving the ACA. Cooke and Harris strongly support the ACA. All three want to expand and improve Medicare. Trump, devoid of empathy, doesn’t get it and never will. Nor do Cooke and Baldwin’s GOP opponents, Derrick Van Orden and Eric Hovde.
That a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin could stoop so low begs the question: Could this really be the kind of a nation we’ve become?
The reluctance of some men to support a female president stems from deep-seated societal norms and biases that continue to pervade American political culture.
Your vote can return America to a nation where everyone has the opportunity to have enough.
For years Republicans have waged fight after fight to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which would dismantle protections for pre-existing conditions.
Weeks away from the next election, and a sizable portion of the country has chosen to forget, ignore or in some cases celebrate Jan. 6, 2021.
Veterans in Wisconsin, who make up 7% of the state’s population, are a powerful force at the polls. We seek a commander in chief with sound judgment and genuine ethical principles. Trump has neither, and his support is fading among us. Go check the latest polls. We all know that he’s never been a warrior — just a performer.
Predicting the outcome is a fools errand. But I think we can be pretty certain what the parameters are for the election as a whole — what the best case scenarios look like for each party in Wisconsin and nationally. Here’s what I think those look like.
Main Street Agenda one way to use community engagement to build stronger ties.
Chances are that you might find a candidate for state Assembly or Senate at your door in the next three weeks. Here are some things you might want to ask them.
Pricey federal plan produces no results yet; observers down on prospects.
The state’s Department of Corrections scrambles to get its story straight, and book donors don’t know how to proceed.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the next biennial state budget and take a first look at agency requests for spending Wisconsin’s robust surplus. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
I joined the U.S. Navy at 18 and had the honor to serve our great nation for 26 years, retiring as a Navy SEAL Senior Chief with multiple combat tours and deployments.
I was born and raised on a west central Wisconsin dairy farm where I learned to work hard and help my neighbors.
One of the most important questions candidates must answer is who is looking out for working class Midwesterners. Many Democrats have taken a pass on that issue in recent years. Unless they make it very clear that has changed, it will come back to bite them.
The Nov. 5 ballot includes a quiet Dane County executive race and referendums as well as the presidential race
Since 2006, the county’s ability to raise the necessary revenue has been restricted by state law, and it has not kept pace with the rising costs of providing essential services. Each year, Waukesha County residents contribute approximately $1.5 billion in sales and income taxes to the state government in Madison. In return, our county receives just $60 million back in state aid.
After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator for financial assistance during the last 18 months even as its $22 million budget hole became apparent.
Career politicians in Washington have continually ignored the urgent pleas of families and individuals impacted by the fentanyl crisis, allowing the epidemic to not only continue but to worsen. Immediate and real change is needed.
Baldwin led in passing and improving the ACA. Cooke and Harris strongly support the ACA. All three want to expand and improve Medicare. Trump, devoid of empathy, doesn’t get it and never will. Nor do Cooke and Baldwin’s GOP opponents, Derrick Van Orden and Eric Hovde.
That a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin could stoop so low begs the question: Could this really be the kind of a nation we’ve become?
The reluctance of some men to support a female president stems from deep-seated societal norms and biases that continue to pervade American political culture.
Your vote can return America to a nation where everyone has the opportunity to have enough.
For years Republicans have waged fight after fight to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, which would dismantle protections for pre-existing conditions.
Weeks away from the next election, and a sizable portion of the country has chosen to forget, ignore or in some cases celebrate Jan. 6, 2021.
Veterans in Wisconsin, who make up 7% of the state’s population, are a powerful force at the polls. We seek a commander in chief with sound judgment and genuine ethical principles. Trump has neither, and his support is fading among us. Go check the latest polls. We all know that he’s never been a warrior — just a performer.
Predicting the outcome is a fools errand. But I think we can be pretty certain what the parameters are for the election as a whole — what the best case scenarios look like for each party in Wisconsin and nationally. Here’s what I think those look like.
Main Street Agenda one way to use community engagement to build stronger ties.
Chances are that you might find a candidate for state Assembly or Senate at your door in the next three weeks. Here are some things you might want to ask them.
Pricey federal plan produces no results yet; observers down on prospects.
The state’s Department of Corrections scrambles to get its story straight, and book donors don’t know how to proceed.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the next biennial state budget and take a first look at agency requests for spending Wisconsin’s robust surplus. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
I joined the U.S. Navy at 18 and had the honor to serve our great nation for 26 years, retiring as a Navy SEAL Senior Chief with multiple combat tours and deployments.
I was born and raised on a west central Wisconsin dairy farm where I learned to work hard and help my neighbors.
One of the most important questions candidates must answer is who is looking out for working class Midwesterners. Many Democrats have taken a pass on that issue in recent years. Unless they make it very clear that has changed, it will come back to bite them.
The Nov. 5 ballot includes a quiet Dane County executive race and referendums as well as the presidential race
