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Century-old protection raises costs for anything shipped to or from state — but not enough to overcome shipbuilding industry’s interest.

If the final plans to bring Amtrak to Madison requires even a smidgen of state money, the GOP boss, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, has made it clear the state will refuse to help.

Long before Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Bernie Sanders, Paine anticipated a social welfare state that provided retirement security, health care and education for all. Indeed, he suggested that it was essential to the realization of the promise of the American experiment.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss efforts to keep former President Trump off state primary election ballots, including a lawsuit in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Who filed second gerrymandering lawsuit and why? Nine questions the case raises.

As the election year proceeds, many of us are already tired of being told how we need to not just “hear” members in Trump’s base, but to “listen” to them. We’re told to do this even as many Trump backers don’t seem to care what the rest of us think.

Don’t pull the straight lever. Pull for the right candidate regardless of the party.

Education, work, marriage, then kids — still the best, though not only, sequence.

For many a generation, Wisconsin was America’s weather vane. If you wanted to know which direction our nation was headed, my home state would tell you. Wisconsin blazed the trail. Then the state stopped leading the way.

With a solid budget outlook and once-in-a-decade opportunities at hand, Wisconsin is a good bet for business growth in coming years.

Milwaukee County residents deserve a balls to the wall, tough on crime, victim and law-abiding, people supporting prosecutor as district attorney. That doesn’t describe what we can expect from Kent Lovern. He will be Chisholm 2.0.

A campaign to write in the word “cease-fire” seeks to pressure the administration to shift its policy.

7 redistricting maps were submitted to state Supreme Court. Which is best and why?

Evers’ maps attempt to roll back racial progress in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Why Evers, an honest guy who is doing a good job running state government, has found it necessary to make appointments to the PSC that had such obvious conflicts, when he has plenty of much better alternatives, has been a mystery to me. But now he has a chance to make a fresh start.

Combined with a nationwide shortage of school librarians, these escalating attacks are creating a dangerous culture of censorship. Instead of walling off students from new and unique perspectives, we should be encouraging them to explore our world more widely through books.

Two GOP senators question requirement for state-owned dispensaries.

Members of the World Trade Organization in Geneva are considering a waiver that would remove intellectual property protections from all therapeutics and diagnostics developed in response to Covid-19. This unparalleled giveaway would be a fast-acting poison in the American ecosystem for innovation.

He is the only candidate who is willing and able to put the interests of the American people above all others. I believe that if anyone can help us take our country back from the rich and powerful and revive the American Dream, it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the issue of eligibility of Mr. Trump before our Wisconsin primary ballots are prepared. … The question for each voter is: Does racist speech, lies about the 2020 election, and calling for violence against our own government make Donald Trump, in our own opinions, eligible to serve as our president?

Century-old protection raises costs for anything shipped to or from state — but not enough to overcome shipbuilding industry’s interest.

If the final plans to bring Amtrak to Madison requires even a smidgen of state money, the GOP boss, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, has made it clear the state will refuse to help.

Long before Franklin Delano Roosevelt or Bernie Sanders, Paine anticipated a social welfare state that provided retirement security, health care and education for all. Indeed, he suggested that it was essential to the realization of the promise of the American experiment.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss efforts to keep former President Trump off state primary election ballots, including a lawsuit in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Who filed second gerrymandering lawsuit and why? Nine questions the case raises.

As the election year proceeds, many of us are already tired of being told how we need to not just “hear” members in Trump’s base, but to “listen” to them. We’re told to do this even as many Trump backers don’t seem to care what the rest of us think.

Don’t pull the straight lever. Pull for the right candidate regardless of the party.

Education, work, marriage, then kids — still the best, though not only, sequence.

For many a generation, Wisconsin was America’s weather vane. If you wanted to know which direction our nation was headed, my home state would tell you. Wisconsin blazed the trail. Then the state stopped leading the way.

With a solid budget outlook and once-in-a-decade opportunities at hand, Wisconsin is a good bet for business growth in coming years.

Milwaukee County residents deserve a balls to the wall, tough on crime, victim and law-abiding, people supporting prosecutor as district attorney. That doesn’t describe what we can expect from Kent Lovern. He will be Chisholm 2.0.

A campaign to write in the word “cease-fire” seeks to pressure the administration to shift its policy.

7 redistricting maps were submitted to state Supreme Court. Which is best and why?

Evers’ maps attempt to roll back racial progress in the Wisconsin Legislature.

Why Evers, an honest guy who is doing a good job running state government, has found it necessary to make appointments to the PSC that had such obvious conflicts, when he has plenty of much better alternatives, has been a mystery to me. But now he has a chance to make a fresh start.

Combined with a nationwide shortage of school librarians, these escalating attacks are creating a dangerous culture of censorship. Instead of walling off students from new and unique perspectives, we should be encouraging them to explore our world more widely through books.

Two GOP senators question requirement for state-owned dispensaries.

Members of the World Trade Organization in Geneva are considering a waiver that would remove intellectual property protections from all therapeutics and diagnostics developed in response to Covid-19. This unparalleled giveaway would be a fast-acting poison in the American ecosystem for innovation.

He is the only candidate who is willing and able to put the interests of the American people above all others. I believe that if anyone can help us take our country back from the rich and powerful and revive the American Dream, it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the issue of eligibility of Mr. Trump before our Wisconsin primary ballots are prepared. … The question for each voter is: Does racist speech, lies about the 2020 election, and calling for violence against our own government make Donald Trump, in our own opinions, eligible to serve as our president?