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Whether you are a parent or employer or community member, the impact of the child care crisis will be felt if we do not continue funding Child Care Counts.
On Wisconsin’s high court, it is the Night of the Sicilian Vespers. The long knives are unsheathed for all but “made” progressives.
Over the last week I’ve been heavily critical of the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But now they’ve done some things that are worth praising. They’ve changed a host of court rules, four of which are especially noteworthy.
I am proud to support all of the farm families in our communities.
Supporters of free speech, beware of the mandating the falsification of history by state law. Give support to the American Civil Liberties Union, or any other organization attacking the curricular gag laws.
McDonald retires this month after 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The unauthorized action taken by some of my colleagues firing director of state courts Randy Koschnick is flawed procedurally, legally and on its merits.
Purges of court personnel for unspecified reasons is no way to demonstrate the commitment to “fairness and impartiality” that newly inaugurated Justice Janet Protasiewicz has promised.
The liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten itself off to a disastrous start.
The latest indictments of former President Donald Trump are likely to backfire on liberals.
Calm, reasoned, determined, brilliant, and aware that the mission is not about him or his place in history, but rather the Constitutional foundations of this very nation.
Unfortunately, Congress appears too unhealthy to fix it.
Legislation enabling Milwaukee sales tax included restrictions that could be challenged.
A bill sponsored by Ozaukee County’s Sen. Duey Strobel and Reps. Robert Brooks and Scot Krug of Wood County would decentralize the current imperial solar energy programs that pick winners and losers and instead would democratize energy collection and distribution so that all have the freedom to capture, distribute and purchase solar energy if they so choose.
Easily accessible, illegally-imported, and kid-friendly vaping products are fueling an epidemic in our state. We need to get serious about cracking down on these products and we need more tools if we’re going to be successful.
My favorite gadfly, former elected Texas agriculture commissioner and longtime progressive agitator Jim Hightower, hit it on the head once again in a commentary on the budget deal between Kevin McCarthy’s House Republicans and President Joe Biden, which was credited with avoiding a government shutdown.
Johnson gave up his moral and ethical compass by worshiping at the alter of political ambition.
If green energy projects like sprawling solar farms are an inevitability in Wisconsin, citizens’ concerns must be more sincerely considered and adaptations made moving forward.
The cozy relationship between regulators and the regulated continues.
A hyper-partisan conservative majority that almost helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election has been replaced by a new majority determined to defend voting rights.
Whether you are a parent or employer or community member, the impact of the child care crisis will be felt if we do not continue funding Child Care Counts.
On Wisconsin’s high court, it is the Night of the Sicilian Vespers. The long knives are unsheathed for all but “made” progressives.
Over the last week I’ve been heavily critical of the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. But now they’ve done some things that are worth praising. They’ve changed a host of court rules, four of which are especially noteworthy.
I am proud to support all of the farm families in our communities.
Supporters of free speech, beware of the mandating the falsification of history by state law. Give support to the American Civil Liberties Union, or any other organization attacking the curricular gag laws.
McDonald retires this month after 35 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The unauthorized action taken by some of my colleagues firing director of state courts Randy Koschnick is flawed procedurally, legally and on its merits.
Purges of court personnel for unspecified reasons is no way to demonstrate the commitment to “fairness and impartiality” that newly inaugurated Justice Janet Protasiewicz has promised.
The liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten itself off to a disastrous start.
The latest indictments of former President Donald Trump are likely to backfire on liberals.
Calm, reasoned, determined, brilliant, and aware that the mission is not about him or his place in history, but rather the Constitutional foundations of this very nation.
Unfortunately, Congress appears too unhealthy to fix it.
Legislation enabling Milwaukee sales tax included restrictions that could be challenged.
A bill sponsored by Ozaukee County’s Sen. Duey Strobel and Reps. Robert Brooks and Scot Krug of Wood County would decentralize the current imperial solar energy programs that pick winners and losers and instead would democratize energy collection and distribution so that all have the freedom to capture, distribute and purchase solar energy if they so choose.
Easily accessible, illegally-imported, and kid-friendly vaping products are fueling an epidemic in our state. We need to get serious about cracking down on these products and we need more tools if we’re going to be successful.
My favorite gadfly, former elected Texas agriculture commissioner and longtime progressive agitator Jim Hightower, hit it on the head once again in a commentary on the budget deal between Kevin McCarthy’s House Republicans and President Joe Biden, which was credited with avoiding a government shutdown.
Johnson gave up his moral and ethical compass by worshiping at the alter of political ambition.
If green energy projects like sprawling solar farms are an inevitability in Wisconsin, citizens’ concerns must be more sincerely considered and adaptations made moving forward.
The cozy relationship between regulators and the regulated continues.
A hyper-partisan conservative majority that almost helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election has been replaced by a new majority determined to defend voting rights.
