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In Wisconsin, the law provides a historic opportunity to accelerate the transition to affordable clean energy, electric vehicles and fleets, energy-efficient buildings, advanced manufacturing, agricultural innovation, and environmental justice.
With a significant portion of the state’s surplus unspent in the 2023-2025 budget, we must fund the Child Care Counts program.
Wisconsin is losing population. This is happening in a time of national population growth and the negative consequences will be unavoidable. The time to act is now.
Controversy over its removal offers lessons to those opposing plan to take down I-794 link.
The GOP’s rhetorical defense of former President Donald Trump rekindles an ancient form of speech making called “sophistry.” Sophistry threatens our form of government as it threatened government in classical Greece.
The first fruits of Wisconsin’s school choice victory can be replicated.
It’s an understatement to say that public school advocates are not happy with the state budget Gov. Tony Evers signed.
Borrowers will have access to temporary flexibilities to successfully reenter repayment, a new income-driven repayment plan that promises more affordable payments, and multiple pathways for loan forgiveness.
It is exciting to see the improvements in our state parks. We are making good progress, but there is more work to be done.
Lincoln would have been proud of constitutional Republicans and appalled by GOP insurrectionists.
Even if he legitimately loses, Trump is never going to concede defeat in the GOP primary. The national political media hasn’t adjusted to a post-Jan. 6 paradigm.
The married couple of Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn are considered two of the most influential people in President Joe Biden’s sphere. They’ll appear together Sept. 23 at Cap Times Idea Fest in Madison.
Would it not have been smarter to use his political thick skin to ward off attacks for trying to move the GOP forward, rather than just taking incoming flack for being just a shade off from Trump?
I’ve been an unapologetic defender of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Maybe not much longer.
In our book commemorating the 100th anniversary of The Capital Times, John Nichols and I devote several pages to our founder William T. Evjue’s fight against the Ku Klux Klan.
Either out of ignorance or just plain obstinance, Wisconsin’s legislative Republicans apparently would rather put school-aged kids to work than help parents take jobs to help alleviate the state’s labor shortage.
The new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court fired the state court system director and established a committee that assumes the constitutional duties of the chief justice. Justice Rebecca Bradley says these changes violate the state constitution, politicize the court, and undermine the public’s trust in the state’s justice system.
The four liberal justices’ actions this week reek of raw abuse of power, and undermine the confidence of the people of Wisconsin in our high court.
Business, government and higher education itself must be a part of forging a long-term solution. It may include downsizing but it need not mean sacrificing quality. Less is sometimes more.
With the governor’s vetoes, the state will still be sitting on over $4 billion dollars that should be returned to the taxpayers of Wisconsin because the government took in more money than it needed.
In Wisconsin, the law provides a historic opportunity to accelerate the transition to affordable clean energy, electric vehicles and fleets, energy-efficient buildings, advanced manufacturing, agricultural innovation, and environmental justice.
With a significant portion of the state’s surplus unspent in the 2023-2025 budget, we must fund the Child Care Counts program.
Wisconsin is losing population. This is happening in a time of national population growth and the negative consequences will be unavoidable. The time to act is now.
Controversy over its removal offers lessons to those opposing plan to take down I-794 link.
The GOP’s rhetorical defense of former President Donald Trump rekindles an ancient form of speech making called “sophistry.” Sophistry threatens our form of government as it threatened government in classical Greece.
The first fruits of Wisconsin’s school choice victory can be replicated.
It’s an understatement to say that public school advocates are not happy with the state budget Gov. Tony Evers signed.
Borrowers will have access to temporary flexibilities to successfully reenter repayment, a new income-driven repayment plan that promises more affordable payments, and multiple pathways for loan forgiveness.
It is exciting to see the improvements in our state parks. We are making good progress, but there is more work to be done.
Lincoln would have been proud of constitutional Republicans and appalled by GOP insurrectionists.
Even if he legitimately loses, Trump is never going to concede defeat in the GOP primary. The national political media hasn’t adjusted to a post-Jan. 6 paradigm.
The married couple of Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn are considered two of the most influential people in President Joe Biden’s sphere. They’ll appear together Sept. 23 at Cap Times Idea Fest in Madison.
Would it not have been smarter to use his political thick skin to ward off attacks for trying to move the GOP forward, rather than just taking incoming flack for being just a shade off from Trump?
I’ve been an unapologetic defender of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. Maybe not much longer.
In our book commemorating the 100th anniversary of The Capital Times, John Nichols and I devote several pages to our founder William T. Evjue’s fight against the Ku Klux Klan.
Either out of ignorance or just plain obstinance, Wisconsin’s legislative Republicans apparently would rather put school-aged kids to work than help parents take jobs to help alleviate the state’s labor shortage.
The new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court fired the state court system director and established a committee that assumes the constitutional duties of the chief justice. Justice Rebecca Bradley says these changes violate the state constitution, politicize the court, and undermine the public’s trust in the state’s justice system.
The four liberal justices’ actions this week reek of raw abuse of power, and undermine the confidence of the people of Wisconsin in our high court.
Business, government and higher education itself must be a part of forging a long-term solution. It may include downsizing but it need not mean sacrificing quality. Less is sometimes more.
With the governor’s vetoes, the state will still be sitting on over $4 billion dollars that should be returned to the taxpayers of Wisconsin because the government took in more money than it needed.