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A little over ten years ago, the fiscal Republican geniuses running the Wisconsin Legislature decided it was outrageous for the University of Wisconsin System to be sitting on a budget surplus.
The next MPS superintendent should have the autonomy to pave the way and be willing to shake things up, and the new board should support this person.
Learn the lessons of April: get early and absentee votes in the door, work and watch the polls…and win.
Sidewalk decision puts property owners on notice: Government can take your land despite statutory prohibitions, and pay less than market value
The Riverside Theater and Pabst Theater will sit empty during the convention, and some downtown restaurant owners worry over lack of activity, with RNC just weeks away.
When we all woke up two years ago to a country in which women had lost control over our bodily autonomy, it triggered a massive backlash.
The trick will be adopting regulations that don’t shut down legitimate needs and opportunities while keeping deepfakes, disinformation and privacy breaches at a minimum.
The Investing in America economic agenda is fueling a Small Business Boom, exceeding 18 million business applications since 2021—historically the three strongest years of new business applications under the Biden-Harris Administration — with more than 222,000 filed in Wisconsin.
Moore looks back at a push by environmentalists and the DNR for emergency rules on waterway permitting that opponents argued would have undermined a law then-Gov. Jim Doyle signed granting expedited permitting.
There hasn’t been a grand strategic look at the University of Wisconsin since the Ice Age, actually since 1971, more than 50 years ago. So it is welcome news that the legislature has created the Legislative Council Study Committee on the Future of the University of Wisconsin System.
To date, even with nine primate sanctuaries across the U.S., including one that is an hour away, the UW refuses to send primates to sanctuaries at all. In the past, UW retired primates to what amounted to a roadside zoo. The horrendous care that ensued is a poor excuse for the UW to simply refuse retirement.
Through his pioneering efforts as a class-conscious undergraduate, Emspak organized fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison student employees. Together, they forced the state to start paying students higher wages decades before other schools across the country did so.
Wisconsin has countless opportunities for our residents and visitors to take advantage of this summer.
In Wisconsin, the overturning of Roe v. Wade sent women back to live under a criminal abortion ban passed in 1849 — 70 years before women had the right to vote.
There is a disconnect between taking an oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Walker’s lieutenant governor was obviously hoping to gain Donald Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 primary, so declaring Wisconsin’s election rigged. Now less than two years later, Kleefisch is asking us to forget it all.
Universities can cash in on faculty brainpower and inventions.
As a lifelong Milwaukee resident, I’ve often said that Milwaukee County is a tale of two counties. I’m committed to working actively to change this reality by championing clean energy and environmental justice, on Juneteenth and on the other 364 days of the year.
We Energies is asking for a 6.9% average increase in 2025 and a 4.78% increase for 2026 for electric rates.
The Supreme Court correctly upheld a federal law Friday that bars guns for domestic abusers, rejecting an argument selfishly and unconscionably pressed by gun rights groups that the prohibition violated the Second Amendment.
A little over ten years ago, the fiscal Republican geniuses running the Wisconsin Legislature decided it was outrageous for the University of Wisconsin System to be sitting on a budget surplus.
The next MPS superintendent should have the autonomy to pave the way and be willing to shake things up, and the new board should support this person.
Learn the lessons of April: get early and absentee votes in the door, work and watch the polls…and win.
Sidewalk decision puts property owners on notice: Government can take your land despite statutory prohibitions, and pay less than market value
The Riverside Theater and Pabst Theater will sit empty during the convention, and some downtown restaurant owners worry over lack of activity, with RNC just weeks away.
When we all woke up two years ago to a country in which women had lost control over our bodily autonomy, it triggered a massive backlash.
The trick will be adopting regulations that don’t shut down legitimate needs and opportunities while keeping deepfakes, disinformation and privacy breaches at a minimum.
The Investing in America economic agenda is fueling a Small Business Boom, exceeding 18 million business applications since 2021—historically the three strongest years of new business applications under the Biden-Harris Administration — with more than 222,000 filed in Wisconsin.
Moore looks back at a push by environmentalists and the DNR for emergency rules on waterway permitting that opponents argued would have undermined a law then-Gov. Jim Doyle signed granting expedited permitting.
There hasn’t been a grand strategic look at the University of Wisconsin since the Ice Age, actually since 1971, more than 50 years ago. So it is welcome news that the legislature has created the Legislative Council Study Committee on the Future of the University of Wisconsin System.
To date, even with nine primate sanctuaries across the U.S., including one that is an hour away, the UW refuses to send primates to sanctuaries at all. In the past, UW retired primates to what amounted to a roadside zoo. The horrendous care that ensued is a poor excuse for the UW to simply refuse retirement.
Through his pioneering efforts as a class-conscious undergraduate, Emspak organized fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison student employees. Together, they forced the state to start paying students higher wages decades before other schools across the country did so.
Wisconsin has countless opportunities for our residents and visitors to take advantage of this summer.
In Wisconsin, the overturning of Roe v. Wade sent women back to live under a criminal abortion ban passed in 1849 — 70 years before women had the right to vote.
There is a disconnect between taking an oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Walker’s lieutenant governor was obviously hoping to gain Donald Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 primary, so declaring Wisconsin’s election rigged. Now less than two years later, Kleefisch is asking us to forget it all.
Universities can cash in on faculty brainpower and inventions.
As a lifelong Milwaukee resident, I’ve often said that Milwaukee County is a tale of two counties. I’m committed to working actively to change this reality by championing clean energy and environmental justice, on Juneteenth and on the other 364 days of the year.
We Energies is asking for a 6.9% average increase in 2025 and a 4.78% increase for 2026 for electric rates.
The Supreme Court correctly upheld a federal law Friday that bars guns for domestic abusers, rejecting an argument selfishly and unconscionably pressed by gun rights groups that the prohibition violated the Second Amendment.