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In 44 other states, you can walk into an election office, eyeball voter registration records and make copies on the spot. Not in Wisconsin. Why? Because in 1993, Congress handed the state a permanent exemption. Thirty-three years later, that carve-out makes as much sense as a car phone — and it is past time to end it.
His detractors discredit the party. … What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate into an attempt to shoot down hard-working and popular party chairman Brian Schimming.
The searches for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System and the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are the two most important higher education hires in Wisconsin. Who, exactly, is speaking for the rest of Wisconsin in these searches?
Daylight is the best disinfectant to dysfunctional governance.
All Wisconsin GOP members of Congress ignored Wisconsin doctors and bishops. But the public backlash to their enthusiastic support for the BBB prompted Wisconsin Republicans to double talk and disingenuously refer to the BBB as the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.
ICE’s tactics and actions have gone rogue; not matching the mission of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.
From the beginning of the United States, there has been tension between the executive and Congress over foreign policy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill in March that would raise Wisconsin’s existing top income tax rate by one-sixth and add a new top bracket for households earning $1 million. The new top rate: 17.7 percent.
In the nation’s 250th year, we have a lot of pieces to pick up and glue back together. Celebrations should not hide the constitutional crisis and dismiss the sharp divide we’re in right now.
According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe Donald Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country.
We’ve got unaddressed national emergencies coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them, much less taking corrective action.
National Day of Prayer offers reminder that freedom requires gratitude, faith, and vigilance
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.
In 44 other states, you can walk into an election office, eyeball voter registration records and make copies on the spot. Not in Wisconsin. Why? Because in 1993, Congress handed the state a permanent exemption. Thirty-three years later, that carve-out makes as much sense as a car phone — and it is past time to end it.
His detractors discredit the party. … What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate into an attempt to shoot down hard-working and popular party chairman Brian Schimming.
The searches for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System and the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are the two most important higher education hires in Wisconsin. Who, exactly, is speaking for the rest of Wisconsin in these searches?
Daylight is the best disinfectant to dysfunctional governance.
All Wisconsin GOP members of Congress ignored Wisconsin doctors and bishops. But the public backlash to their enthusiastic support for the BBB prompted Wisconsin Republicans to double talk and disingenuously refer to the BBB as the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.
ICE’s tactics and actions have gone rogue; not matching the mission of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.
From the beginning of the United States, there has been tension between the executive and Congress over foreign policy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The Legislature’s “Socialist Caucus” drafted a bill in March that would raise Wisconsin’s existing top income tax rate by one-sixth and add a new top bracket for households earning $1 million. The new top rate: 17.7 percent.
In the nation’s 250th year, we have a lot of pieces to pick up and glue back together. Celebrations should not hide the constitutional crisis and dismiss the sharp divide we’re in right now.
According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe Donald Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country.
We’ve got unaddressed national emergencies coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them, much less taking corrective action.
National Day of Prayer offers reminder that freedom requires gratitude, faith, and vigilance
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.
