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Leading issues in the Wisconsin conservation community for 2025 include potential license fee increases and legislation on wake-enhanced boating.

Giving the people legislative power is antithetical to America’s founding principles. The U.S. Constitution’s framers despised this sort of direct democracy, as they feared that it would empower a “tyranny of the majority.”

Resistance will look different in 2024 than in 2016. After 2016, there were so many people looking to get involved and start organizing, some for the first time in their lives. But this time feels different. People are exhausted.

Lower nicotine levels leads to more people quitting smoking, which leads to massive health benefits and lower federal spending.

Has the crime rate gone up or down in Milwaukee and nationally?

Despite vast wealth it closed pediatric clinic on 29th and Clark.

Republicans plan to move quickly to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures. They see an opening, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, to push through changes that include voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.

Remote work has served a useful purpose by showing us just how useless many state workers were. Now is the time to get rid of many of them, plus the buildings they once occupied.

Gov. Tony Evers is once again floating a plan to create an initiative-referendum system for Wisconsin. It’s a bad idea.

Scott Walker’s infamous Act 10 was a highly partisan political bill that has done enormous damage to Wisconsin’s economy and exacerbated the hollowing out of our middle class. He fueled a politics of resentment that divided families, communities and our state long before Donald Trump emerged as the prince of grievance politics.

The plan will offer direct admission to UW-Madison for students placing in the top 5% of their Wisconsin high schools.

While other former presidents aimed to sit on corporate boards or slip off the stage quietly to paint, Carter embraced the world. Putting his faith forward, interlaced with a mighty keen mind he formed working coalitions and solutions which benefited the world.

As is its tradition, the Forecasters Anonymous tribe gathered once again between Christmas and New Year’s Day to sneak a few extra post-holiday calories, renew acquaintances and swap tall tales.

Sachin and I bridged all that divided us with curiosity, dialogue, understanding, mutual respect and good will.

Too many vital services are starved for cash.

Effective government begins with districts that reflect real communities, yet Wisconsin’s maps still fall short of this basic standard.

Carter secured the nomination and the presidency — with just enough votes from the farmers and smalltown people of Grant, Richland, Vernon and other Wisconsin counties that gave a last-minute Democratic primary assist to the peanut farmer from Georgia.

Carter was the first president to stress having a Cabinet, judges, and other government nominees that “looked like America.”

If Donald Trump pardons the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who heeded his call to “fight like hell or we won’t have a country any more” he will be ripping the bandage off a wound still suppurating.

But why pay the bills when his only purpose for seeking another term in the White House is to fleece the taxpayers.

Leading issues in the Wisconsin conservation community for 2025 include potential license fee increases and legislation on wake-enhanced boating.

Giving the people legislative power is antithetical to America’s founding principles. The U.S. Constitution’s framers despised this sort of direct democracy, as they feared that it would empower a “tyranny of the majority.”

Resistance will look different in 2024 than in 2016. After 2016, there were so many people looking to get involved and start organizing, some for the first time in their lives. But this time feels different. People are exhausted.

Lower nicotine levels leads to more people quitting smoking, which leads to massive health benefits and lower federal spending.

Has the crime rate gone up or down in Milwaukee and nationally?

Despite vast wealth it closed pediatric clinic on 29th and Clark.

Republicans plan to move quickly to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures. They see an opening, with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, to push through changes that include voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.

Remote work has served a useful purpose by showing us just how useless many state workers were. Now is the time to get rid of many of them, plus the buildings they once occupied.

Gov. Tony Evers is once again floating a plan to create an initiative-referendum system for Wisconsin. It’s a bad idea.

Scott Walker’s infamous Act 10 was a highly partisan political bill that has done enormous damage to Wisconsin’s economy and exacerbated the hollowing out of our middle class. He fueled a politics of resentment that divided families, communities and our state long before Donald Trump emerged as the prince of grievance politics.

The plan will offer direct admission to UW-Madison for students placing in the top 5% of their Wisconsin high schools.

While other former presidents aimed to sit on corporate boards or slip off the stage quietly to paint, Carter embraced the world. Putting his faith forward, interlaced with a mighty keen mind he formed working coalitions and solutions which benefited the world.

As is its tradition, the Forecasters Anonymous tribe gathered once again between Christmas and New Year’s Day to sneak a few extra post-holiday calories, renew acquaintances and swap tall tales.

Sachin and I bridged all that divided us with curiosity, dialogue, understanding, mutual respect and good will.

Too many vital services are starved for cash.

Effective government begins with districts that reflect real communities, yet Wisconsin’s maps still fall short of this basic standard.

Carter secured the nomination and the presidency — with just enough votes from the farmers and smalltown people of Grant, Richland, Vernon and other Wisconsin counties that gave a last-minute Democratic primary assist to the peanut farmer from Georgia.

Carter was the first president to stress having a Cabinet, judges, and other government nominees that “looked like America.”

If Donald Trump pardons the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who heeded his call to “fight like hell or we won’t have a country any more” he will be ripping the bandage off a wound still suppurating.

But why pay the bills when his only purpose for seeking another term in the White House is to fleece the taxpayers.