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The Department of Labor, trying for the fourth time in 13 years, is pushing a regulation that will result in a massive loss of financial guidance for millions of Americans, particularly those who need this advice the most
Positions of county treasurer, clerk and register of deeds should be eliminated, not given raises.
The Civilian Police Oversight Board was created in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It never made any sense because the Madison Police Department has long been among the most progressive anywhere and because there’s always been plenty of civilian oversight over it.
You would think that in a democracy majorities rule. You would be wrong. A relatively small band of right-wing Republicans in the House of Representatives is defying a big majority in both houses of Congress.
The same jurists who last week stalled Trump’s federal criminal trial on charges related to those efforts to overturn the election results on Monday reinterpreted the 14th Amendment in a way that assures that the former president will have no trouble getting on the ballot even in states where courts and election officials have determined that he disqualified himself with his insurrectionist agitation around Jan. 6, 2021.
Either no person is above the law, or the entire premise of our legal system is a myth. A battle is underway for the very foundations, the connecting fabric of our democracy.
The intractable partisan slant of most of our news media is as responsible for MAGA nation as anything. The point is, the mainstream media covered for Democrats, rather than objectively serving their readers.
The auto industry is not safe under Biden, our nation is not safe under Biden, and the world is not safe under Biden.
It telegraphs the sort of desperation we see when politicians are trying to bury a vexing narrative — in this case, the one that says Hovde is more Tahoe than Tomah.
Hovde’s polar plunge got The Capital Times to spend its Sunday morning op ed column to confirm the Republican’s point: he’s a hometown Wisconsin boy who made good.
Before his earthquake announcement, McConnell stepped up. At a White House meeting with President Biden, Democratic congressional leaders and GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, McConnell warned Speaker Johnson about the folly of a government shutdown and the urgent necessity of the GOP-led House to pass vital military aid for Ukraine.
Repealing Act 10, whether by legislative action or the unhinged actions of an activist Supreme Court, would be absolutely devastating to the state of Wisconsin.
For the 18th straight year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is recognizing outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government through its Openness in Government awards, or Opees.
How in good conscience, former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Bill Andrekopoulos wonders, can the school district ask taxpayers for $252 million without considering closing a single school?
Last week, the Mississippi senate introduced a proposal that mandates the State Institutions of Higher Learning to select three of the eight public universities by June 2025, for closure by 2028. While the bill did not specifically name the HBCUs by name, alumni and supporters of these universities are on edge at the thought of their closure.
CNalysis makes projections on state legislative maps all over the country. Their new projection for Wisconsin’s state legislature shows where key races will be on this whole new landscape.
Donald Trump’s history of race-baiting is rubbing off on his Republicans in Congress, becoming nearly as infectious as the Covid virus has been on the nation’s health.
The politicians representing 330 million U.S. citizens need to start doing their jobs, start enforcing anti-trust laws already on the books and stop behaving like only the wealthiest 400 or so among us matter at all.
Would it not be smarter to aid our federal government to speed up the process and assist in expediting work authorization for migrants than to allow for the backlogged process to wait up to a year before getting work permits for these new arrivals?
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the candidacy rollout for Eric Hovde, a Republican seeking to unseat Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The Department of Labor, trying for the fourth time in 13 years, is pushing a regulation that will result in a massive loss of financial guidance for millions of Americans, particularly those who need this advice the most
Positions of county treasurer, clerk and register of deeds should be eliminated, not given raises.
The Civilian Police Oversight Board was created in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It never made any sense because the Madison Police Department has long been among the most progressive anywhere and because there’s always been plenty of civilian oversight over it.
You would think that in a democracy majorities rule. You would be wrong. A relatively small band of right-wing Republicans in the House of Representatives is defying a big majority in both houses of Congress.
The same jurists who last week stalled Trump’s federal criminal trial on charges related to those efforts to overturn the election results on Monday reinterpreted the 14th Amendment in a way that assures that the former president will have no trouble getting on the ballot even in states where courts and election officials have determined that he disqualified himself with his insurrectionist agitation around Jan. 6, 2021.
Either no person is above the law, or the entire premise of our legal system is a myth. A battle is underway for the very foundations, the connecting fabric of our democracy.
The intractable partisan slant of most of our news media is as responsible for MAGA nation as anything. The point is, the mainstream media covered for Democrats, rather than objectively serving their readers.
The auto industry is not safe under Biden, our nation is not safe under Biden, and the world is not safe under Biden.
It telegraphs the sort of desperation we see when politicians are trying to bury a vexing narrative — in this case, the one that says Hovde is more Tahoe than Tomah.
Hovde’s polar plunge got The Capital Times to spend its Sunday morning op ed column to confirm the Republican’s point: he’s a hometown Wisconsin boy who made good.
Before his earthquake announcement, McConnell stepped up. At a White House meeting with President Biden, Democratic congressional leaders and GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, McConnell warned Speaker Johnson about the folly of a government shutdown and the urgent necessity of the GOP-led House to pass vital military aid for Ukraine.
Repealing Act 10, whether by legislative action or the unhinged actions of an activist Supreme Court, would be absolutely devastating to the state of Wisconsin.
For the 18th straight year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is recognizing outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government through its Openness in Government awards, or Opees.
How in good conscience, former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Bill Andrekopoulos wonders, can the school district ask taxpayers for $252 million without considering closing a single school?
Last week, the Mississippi senate introduced a proposal that mandates the State Institutions of Higher Learning to select three of the eight public universities by June 2025, for closure by 2028. While the bill did not specifically name the HBCUs by name, alumni and supporters of these universities are on edge at the thought of their closure.
CNalysis makes projections on state legislative maps all over the country. Their new projection for Wisconsin’s state legislature shows where key races will be on this whole new landscape.
Donald Trump’s history of race-baiting is rubbing off on his Republicans in Congress, becoming nearly as infectious as the Covid virus has been on the nation’s health.
The politicians representing 330 million U.S. citizens need to start doing their jobs, start enforcing anti-trust laws already on the books and stop behaving like only the wealthiest 400 or so among us matter at all.
Would it not be smarter to aid our federal government to speed up the process and assist in expediting work authorization for migrants than to allow for the backlogged process to wait up to a year before getting work permits for these new arrivals?
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the candidacy rollout for Eric Hovde, a Republican seeking to unseat Dem U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
