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The regents of the Universities of Wisconsin get a do-over Wednesday. A make-up test, if you will. Saturday 12-09-23 they flunked basic math and forgot whatever history they ever learned.
The biggest consumer worry is “range anxiety,” the fear of not being able to find charging stations when they need them – and that work as advertised – while on road trips. A bill that will be introduced soon in the Wisconsin Legislature could help to change that.
Reclaiming feminism to protect women and girls
Keenly aware that most Americans believe that the ultra wealthy ought to be paying their fair share of income taxes, President Joe Biden has been calling for a billionaire minimum tax since he took office in January of 2021.
2023 has been an exciting year in the 14th Senate District and at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Why is a hospital chain paying for music? And where will money for sponsorship deal come from?
Formerly hawkish Republicans, the isolationists in the GOP are now ready to hand that existentially challenged country to Vladimir Putin. That would be a colossal strategic mistake.
The board rejects compromise on DEI, engineering building.
Despite surrender by Vos where UW got almost everything it wanted, the UW Regents voted to reject the compromise. What does this tell us about the UW Regents and the leadership of the Universities of Wisconsin?
Jay Rothman is not qualified to run the University of Wisconsin system. If he does not follow through on his threat to resign then he should be removed by the Board of Regents.
Officials from both parties relate personal stories: Sen. Cabral-Guevara, LG Rodriguez, Senate Dem Leader Hesselbein and Rep. Emerson. comment.
It has been forty-two years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the first recognized sign of what would become known as the AIDS epidemic.
Last week, an Appeals Court unanimously ruled that construction of a luxury golf course that would decimate an environmentally rich area along Lake Michigan and cause great damage to a popular state park cannot proceed.
AI can digest all the writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and spit out a legitimate-sounding report. It can’t tell you, though, about a local woman who founded a charity that has distributed more than 625,000 hats and blankets to cancer patients, VA hospitals and neonatal intensive care units.
A plan to build back better.
With reporters and journalists coming under more partisan attacks and a dearth of examples where both parties can find agreement on issues of the day, comes Wisconsin Assembly Bill 551 which protects budding journalists, a measure that has united some disparate voices in the statehouse.
The Board of Regents quashed a compromise on DEI by a 9 to 8 vote–once again jeopardizing construction of a new engineering building and putting on hold pay raises for 35,000 systemwide employees.
Fair maps would spur state legislative action on nonpartisan issues such as Medicaid expansion and more state support for the UW System.
While other states have taken action against the fake Electoral College electors who tried to claim that Donald Trump won their states even though he lost in 2020, the 10 fakers from Wisconsin apparently won’t face any penalties other than sprouting a few red faces.
Ten GOP election deniers have been banned from serving as electors if Trump is on the 2024 ballot. But one of them is still on the statewide election commission.
The regents of the Universities of Wisconsin get a do-over Wednesday. A make-up test, if you will. Saturday 12-09-23 they flunked basic math and forgot whatever history they ever learned.
The biggest consumer worry is “range anxiety,” the fear of not being able to find charging stations when they need them – and that work as advertised – while on road trips. A bill that will be introduced soon in the Wisconsin Legislature could help to change that.
Reclaiming feminism to protect women and girls
Keenly aware that most Americans believe that the ultra wealthy ought to be paying their fair share of income taxes, President Joe Biden has been calling for a billionaire minimum tax since he took office in January of 2021.
2023 has been an exciting year in the 14th Senate District and at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Why is a hospital chain paying for music? And where will money for sponsorship deal come from?
Formerly hawkish Republicans, the isolationists in the GOP are now ready to hand that existentially challenged country to Vladimir Putin. That would be a colossal strategic mistake.
The board rejects compromise on DEI, engineering building.
Despite surrender by Vos where UW got almost everything it wanted, the UW Regents voted to reject the compromise. What does this tell us about the UW Regents and the leadership of the Universities of Wisconsin?
Jay Rothman is not qualified to run the University of Wisconsin system. If he does not follow through on his threat to resign then he should be removed by the Board of Regents.
Officials from both parties relate personal stories: Sen. Cabral-Guevara, LG Rodriguez, Senate Dem Leader Hesselbein and Rep. Emerson. comment.
It has been forty-two years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the first recognized sign of what would become known as the AIDS epidemic.
Last week, an Appeals Court unanimously ruled that construction of a luxury golf course that would decimate an environmentally rich area along Lake Michigan and cause great damage to a popular state park cannot proceed.
AI can digest all the writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and spit out a legitimate-sounding report. It can’t tell you, though, about a local woman who founded a charity that has distributed more than 625,000 hats and blankets to cancer patients, VA hospitals and neonatal intensive care units.
A plan to build back better.
With reporters and journalists coming under more partisan attacks and a dearth of examples where both parties can find agreement on issues of the day, comes Wisconsin Assembly Bill 551 which protects budding journalists, a measure that has united some disparate voices in the statehouse.
The Board of Regents quashed a compromise on DEI by a 9 to 8 vote–once again jeopardizing construction of a new engineering building and putting on hold pay raises for 35,000 systemwide employees.
Fair maps would spur state legislative action on nonpartisan issues such as Medicaid expansion and more state support for the UW System.
While other states have taken action against the fake Electoral College electors who tried to claim that Donald Trump won their states even though he lost in 2020, the 10 fakers from Wisconsin apparently won’t face any penalties other than sprouting a few red faces.
Ten GOP election deniers have been banned from serving as electors if Trump is on the 2024 ballot. But one of them is still on the statewide election commission.