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A recent case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court threatened to replace the state’s legislative maps with new maps drawn by partisans and picked by the court. The case was ultimately mooted, but the bad social science advanced by the experts retained by the court deserves comment.
During the Walker administration, we enacted some of the boldest reforms in the nation. Five years later, Wisconsin still ranks second in the nation on the Federalism Scorecard issued by the State Policy Network.
It’s our responsibility to ensure teachers have the support to help all Wisconsin students.
The right to vote is one of our greatest rights and privileges. In order to protect that right, it is essential that our laws and procedures safeguard the integrity of our electoral system.
The people we met were not the “animals, thugs and drug dealers” of Donald Trump’s imagination. They were people desperately fleeing violence, crime, and corruption, seeking economic opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority wants to throw out a two-year-old case banning ballot drop boxes while at the same time blasting the US Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rothman lashed out Tuesday at UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone for reaching an agreement with pro-Palestinian student protesters.
UW-Milwaukee officially endorses the ‘genocide’ blood libel against Israel.
When mindsets move to the high ground, societies and economies win by promoting collaboration, by putting love or at least tolerance over hate, by innovating versus dominating.
What has to happen is that Hamas and all other radical groups need to lay down their arms, recognize Israel’s right to exist and get to work on a two state solution.
Its editor, stalwart Republican James Wigderson watched as readers and his party went off the rails.
The reason editorial cartoons matter is that they are vital to our culture as they stir the national conversation about topics and personalities that are at times gritty and hard to stomach.
What a different country, what a better country, ours would be if every American had the occasion to live abroad.
It’s time for Congress to realize that improving tax fairness means a stronger economy, more vibrant small businesses and greater opportunities for Wisconsin families.
The late-night reporting of absentee ballots in Milwaukee is the result of combination of a very poor policy choice by Milwaukee election officials and a state law that creates inefficiencies in counting. Fortunately, the city has the ability to change course and improve efficiency.
Milwaukee gets to oust its election commissioner but GOP can’t get rid of state elections chief.
President Joe Biden has made historic strides to change that and to promote protection of the natural heritage of our public lands as equally important as resource extraction.
The requirements placed on the construction of the artificial intelligence data center not only limit competition but increase costs 12% to 20% and will delay other clean energy and transportation projects.
ut whether we idolize Jesse James for robbing those conniving railroad moguls, Al Capone’s defiance of those holier-than-thou feds enforcing the prohibition laws, mythicizing Bonnie and Clyde or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, to put Trump on a pedestal for his willingness to tear down democratic institutions is the proverbial bridge too far. As a nation, we would be eternally sorry.
As we welcome spring and prepare to celebrate the graduates in our lives, let’s also use National Hospital Week as a reminder of the centrality of hospitals to our communities and the importance of a thriving healthcare workforce. This is a moment to reflect not only on the challenges, but the immense opportunities that lie ahead for healthcare and hospital careers in Wisconsin.
A recent case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court threatened to replace the state’s legislative maps with new maps drawn by partisans and picked by the court. The case was ultimately mooted, but the bad social science advanced by the experts retained by the court deserves comment.
During the Walker administration, we enacted some of the boldest reforms in the nation. Five years later, Wisconsin still ranks second in the nation on the Federalism Scorecard issued by the State Policy Network.
It’s our responsibility to ensure teachers have the support to help all Wisconsin students.
The right to vote is one of our greatest rights and privileges. In order to protect that right, it is essential that our laws and procedures safeguard the integrity of our electoral system.
The people we met were not the “animals, thugs and drug dealers” of Donald Trump’s imagination. They were people desperately fleeing violence, crime, and corruption, seeking economic opportunity and a better life for themselves and their families.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority wants to throw out a two-year-old case banning ballot drop boxes while at the same time blasting the US Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.
Rothman lashed out Tuesday at UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone for reaching an agreement with pro-Palestinian student protesters.
UW-Milwaukee officially endorses the ‘genocide’ blood libel against Israel.
When mindsets move to the high ground, societies and economies win by promoting collaboration, by putting love or at least tolerance over hate, by innovating versus dominating.
What has to happen is that Hamas and all other radical groups need to lay down their arms, recognize Israel’s right to exist and get to work on a two state solution.
Its editor, stalwart Republican James Wigderson watched as readers and his party went off the rails.
The reason editorial cartoons matter is that they are vital to our culture as they stir the national conversation about topics and personalities that are at times gritty and hard to stomach.
What a different country, what a better country, ours would be if every American had the occasion to live abroad.
It’s time for Congress to realize that improving tax fairness means a stronger economy, more vibrant small businesses and greater opportunities for Wisconsin families.
The late-night reporting of absentee ballots in Milwaukee is the result of combination of a very poor policy choice by Milwaukee election officials and a state law that creates inefficiencies in counting. Fortunately, the city has the ability to change course and improve efficiency.
Milwaukee gets to oust its election commissioner but GOP can’t get rid of state elections chief.
President Joe Biden has made historic strides to change that and to promote protection of the natural heritage of our public lands as equally important as resource extraction.
The requirements placed on the construction of the artificial intelligence data center not only limit competition but increase costs 12% to 20% and will delay other clean energy and transportation projects.
ut whether we idolize Jesse James for robbing those conniving railroad moguls, Al Capone’s defiance of those holier-than-thou feds enforcing the prohibition laws, mythicizing Bonnie and Clyde or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, to put Trump on a pedestal for his willingness to tear down democratic institutions is the proverbial bridge too far. As a nation, we would be eternally sorry.
As we welcome spring and prepare to celebrate the graduates in our lives, let’s also use National Hospital Week as a reminder of the centrality of hospitals to our communities and the importance of a thriving healthcare workforce. This is a moment to reflect not only on the challenges, but the immense opportunities that lie ahead for healthcare and hospital careers in Wisconsin.
