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John Torinus: We need people: centrist immigration reforms

Our economic growth is being hampered by worker shortages. Even Manufacturers & Commerce, the state’s biggest business lobby, which usually acts as a wing of the Wisconsin GOP, says so. Long and short, there is room for a bunch of competent immigrants and families here – 8.8 million open job in the country. That’s just reality, despite recent anti-immigrant bigotry.

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Mike McCabe: Passing on a blind corner

Either unaware or forgetful of truths like what happened in Tulsa in 1921 or on the Virginia coast in the late 1600s, we collide with others we are conditioned to see as enemies but with whom we share so much in common socially, economically and politically. We are put at each other’s throats by ruling elites who seek to divide and conquer us to enrich themselves. Things never taught in school become mistakes repeated.

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Howard Marklein: Legislature follows through on UW agreement

As 2023 came to a close, the legislature and University of Wisconsin System came to an agreement on a path forward that refocuses the UW’s priorities on our campuses to student success and achievement, ensures our best and brightest students remain in the state, and makes significant investments in building projects across Wisconsin’s universities.

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John Torinus: We need people: centrist immigration reforms

Our economic growth is being hampered by worker shortages. Even Manufacturers & Commerce, the state’s biggest business lobby, which usually acts as a wing of the Wisconsin GOP, says so. Long and short, there is room for a bunch of competent immigrants and families here – 8.8 million open job in the country. That’s just reality, despite recent anti-immigrant bigotry.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: Passing on a blind corner

Either unaware or forgetful of truths like what happened in Tulsa in 1921 or on the Virginia coast in the late 1600s, we collide with others we are conditioned to see as enemies but with whom we share so much in common socially, economically and politically. We are put at each other’s throats by ruling elites who seek to divide and conquer us to enrich themselves. Things never taught in school become mistakes repeated.

Read More »

Howard Marklein: Legislature follows through on UW agreement

As 2023 came to a close, the legislature and University of Wisconsin System came to an agreement on a path forward that refocuses the UW’s priorities on our campuses to student success and achievement, ensures our best and brightest students remain in the state, and makes significant investments in building projects across Wisconsin’s universities.

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