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Electricity demand is growing; citizen demands should, too.

The passenger rail skeptics weren’t saying much this week when Amtrak announced ridership numbers from the first month of its new state-sponsored train service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Huge declines in the percent of earned income are a very worrisome sign.

Hosting the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee will have a host of negative impacts on our Black communities. First, the city will center its attention on the RNC and its agenda which seeks to disempower, silence, and harm us. Second, increased police presence and surveillance from the event will impact Black communities the most.

Despite screeching for months about the destruction of stare decisis when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Wisconsin Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined with her fellow three liberals in rejecting what in any other circumstance they all might have termed “settled law.”

It’s clear that there are significant doubts about election integrity among the U.S. population, largely because of the false narratives relentlessly pushed by former president Donald Trump and his followers.

6-1 decision by Wisconsin Supreme Court a surprise. What does it tell us about the court?

Voting yes stops wasteful spending.

The Founders’ intent could not be more obvious. Presidential immunity from prosecution is a total fabrication by a partisan majority of today’s United States Supreme Court.

After the recent string of high court rulings, don’t assume that this court wouldn’t overturn centuries of keeping government and religion separate if it gets the chance.

Wisconsinites should be alarmed about how these decisions to close its two-year campuses are being made.

There needs to be some people asking hard questions of the school district.

Evidently alarmed by the recent polls showing former President Trump surging in the crucial swing state, the liberal majority of the court greased the skids for an all-out absentee ballot harvesting operation by Democrats in November, ruling that local election clerks must be given full discretion in determining the use and location of ballot drop boxes.

GOP areas need to embrace voting drop boxes. Or, they can just lose.

The ideology of justices and judges matter and the only control you have over it, is how and if you vote.

I voted for Donald Trump before, but this time our nominee is a convicted felon. The Republican Party I grew up with stood for law and order. We prided ourselves on being the “rule of law” party and championed personal accountability. Now, all of our morals have been replaced with lies.

When the Supreme Court ruled that Trump is not constrained by the rules which govern every other American citizen the door to authoritarian rule was thrown wide open. If Trump is returned to the presidency, he will functionally be “above the law.”

David Prosser’s name is stripped in favor of Lavinia Goodell, state’s first woman lawyer.

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde struggles to connect with Wisconsin voters in his race against incumbent Senator Tammy Baldwin.

The court is using its illegitimate power to fundamentally change America. A rash of extreme decisions will have major impacts on our health, our environment, our rights and our democracy.

Electricity demand is growing; citizen demands should, too.

The passenger rail skeptics weren’t saying much this week when Amtrak announced ridership numbers from the first month of its new state-sponsored train service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Huge declines in the percent of earned income are a very worrisome sign.

Hosting the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee will have a host of negative impacts on our Black communities. First, the city will center its attention on the RNC and its agenda which seeks to disempower, silence, and harm us. Second, increased police presence and surveillance from the event will impact Black communities the most.

Despite screeching for months about the destruction of stare decisis when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Wisconsin Justice Janet Protasiewicz joined with her fellow three liberals in rejecting what in any other circumstance they all might have termed “settled law.”

It’s clear that there are significant doubts about election integrity among the U.S. population, largely because of the false narratives relentlessly pushed by former president Donald Trump and his followers.

6-1 decision by Wisconsin Supreme Court a surprise. What does it tell us about the court?

Voting yes stops wasteful spending.

The Founders’ intent could not be more obvious. Presidential immunity from prosecution is a total fabrication by a partisan majority of today’s United States Supreme Court.

After the recent string of high court rulings, don’t assume that this court wouldn’t overturn centuries of keeping government and religion separate if it gets the chance.

Wisconsinites should be alarmed about how these decisions to close its two-year campuses are being made.

There needs to be some people asking hard questions of the school district.

Evidently alarmed by the recent polls showing former President Trump surging in the crucial swing state, the liberal majority of the court greased the skids for an all-out absentee ballot harvesting operation by Democrats in November, ruling that local election clerks must be given full discretion in determining the use and location of ballot drop boxes.

GOP areas need to embrace voting drop boxes. Or, they can just lose.

The ideology of justices and judges matter and the only control you have over it, is how and if you vote.

I voted for Donald Trump before, but this time our nominee is a convicted felon. The Republican Party I grew up with stood for law and order. We prided ourselves on being the “rule of law” party and championed personal accountability. Now, all of our morals have been replaced with lies.

When the Supreme Court ruled that Trump is not constrained by the rules which govern every other American citizen the door to authoritarian rule was thrown wide open. If Trump is returned to the presidency, he will functionally be “above the law.”

David Prosser’s name is stripped in favor of Lavinia Goodell, state’s first woman lawyer.

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde struggles to connect with Wisconsin voters in his race against incumbent Senator Tammy Baldwin.

The court is using its illegitimate power to fundamentally change America. A rash of extreme decisions will have major impacts on our health, our environment, our rights and our democracy.