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One hopes the Chicago delegates follow the enlightened trail blazed by past Wisconsinites and advocate for the bright sunshine of equal rights, foreign and domestic.
He has said he wants to stop what his firm did: paying zero federal taxes on investments.
After just one week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be abandoning the idea of putting the quarterback on his ticket.
Extreme, far-right laws and policies are taking over schools and harming not only marginalized communities but ALL students. In some cases, they are having devastating effects.
Let’s take a closer look at what is actually being proposed in city’s ‘planning framework’
During the state Senate’s final scheduled floor session for the current Legislature, Republicans abused their oversight power to fire eight highly qualified Evers appointees — including four members of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, two members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, a member of the Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Board and a member of the Governor’s Council on Domestic Abuse.
As the legislative session ends abruptly, there’s more work to be done.
Everything changed in the Capitol in April of 2023, when Democrats, outnumbered in the Legislature, brought in their new star pitcher: Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
On April 2, Wisconsin voters have the opportunity to put an end to billionaires trying to buy election offices at the ballot box.
Long lines and cumbersome ID requirements discourage students from voting.
With Madison native Joe Gothard recently hired to become the city’s next school superintendent this summer, Police Chief Shon Barnes plans to pitch him on a reenvisioned SRO program that Barnes hopes would be a national model.
Immediately deport immigrants who commit crimes.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, was the speaker at the 2024 annual Kastenmeier Lecture at UW-Madison Law School.
Harkin, at age 84, is still doing very well. He’s been out of the Senate now for nearly 10 years, having stepped down after choosing not to run in the 2014 election. Interestingly, the former Democratic senator isn’t depressed by the stark change in Iowa politics in just the past decade or so.
Kennedy has proven he will do almost anything, including this quixotic leap of name-dropping, to be relevant.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine how and why the principles and priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties in Wisconsin have evolved over time. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The campaign by Vos haters is anti-democratic. Here’s why.
Vos had a favorability rating of just 17% in the latest Marquette Law School poll released earlier this year.
Doomsday predictions have been commonplace for more than 50 years now, but here’s the thing: Ever since they were first made, they have been dead wrong.
Almost by definition, “big science” involves government funding – lots of it – along with a concentration of technical talent and other resources. The question is whether privately backed companies working in sectors such as fusion and other nuclear research can make it on their own.
One hopes the Chicago delegates follow the enlightened trail blazed by past Wisconsinites and advocate for the bright sunshine of equal rights, foreign and domestic.
He has said he wants to stop what his firm did: paying zero federal taxes on investments.
After just one week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be abandoning the idea of putting the quarterback on his ticket.
Extreme, far-right laws and policies are taking over schools and harming not only marginalized communities but ALL students. In some cases, they are having devastating effects.
Let’s take a closer look at what is actually being proposed in city’s ‘planning framework’
During the state Senate’s final scheduled floor session for the current Legislature, Republicans abused their oversight power to fire eight highly qualified Evers appointees — including four members of the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, two members of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, a member of the Wisconsin Deferred Compensation Board and a member of the Governor’s Council on Domestic Abuse.
As the legislative session ends abruptly, there’s more work to be done.
Everything changed in the Capitol in April of 2023, when Democrats, outnumbered in the Legislature, brought in their new star pitcher: Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
On April 2, Wisconsin voters have the opportunity to put an end to billionaires trying to buy election offices at the ballot box.
Long lines and cumbersome ID requirements discourage students from voting.
With Madison native Joe Gothard recently hired to become the city’s next school superintendent this summer, Police Chief Shon Barnes plans to pitch him on a reenvisioned SRO program that Barnes hopes would be a national model.
Immediately deport immigrants who commit crimes.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, was the speaker at the 2024 annual Kastenmeier Lecture at UW-Madison Law School.
Harkin, at age 84, is still doing very well. He’s been out of the Senate now for nearly 10 years, having stepped down after choosing not to run in the 2014 election. Interestingly, the former Democratic senator isn’t depressed by the stark change in Iowa politics in just the past decade or so.
Kennedy has proven he will do almost anything, including this quixotic leap of name-dropping, to be relevant.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine how and why the principles and priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties in Wisconsin have evolved over time. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The campaign by Vos haters is anti-democratic. Here’s why.
Vos had a favorability rating of just 17% in the latest Marquette Law School poll released earlier this year.
Doomsday predictions have been commonplace for more than 50 years now, but here’s the thing: Ever since they were first made, they have been dead wrong.
Almost by definition, “big science” involves government funding – lots of it – along with a concentration of technical talent and other resources. The question is whether privately backed companies working in sectors such as fusion and other nuclear research can make it on their own.
