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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A hyper-partisan conservative majority that almost helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election has been replaced by a new majority determined to defend voting rights.
Wisconsin needs a better example of leadership.
GOP keeps shifting highest tax burden from rich to the poor.
Black Americans go missing at rates high above people of other backgrounds.
State leaders must ensure that the end of continuous Medicaid coverage does not also mark the end of robust access to effective mental health care for tens of thousands of kids with autism.
After a long, bitter, and record-breakingly expensive state Supreme Court race, Protasiewicz takes her seat this week, tilting the bench on the state’s highest court to the left for the first time in 15 years
O’Donnell weighs the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s new liberal majority ignoring precedent and possibly the state’s open meetings law to fire Wisconsin’s director of State Courts.
The first action of the new 4-3 liberal Supreme Court majority was to engage in a senseless partisan witch hunt.
The Economic Policy Institute recently raised a warning flag over the growing trend among state legislatures to weaken child labor laws.
Is it a crime to take bad legal advice? That’s the George Costanza defense Donald Trump’s sycophants are positing.
Before we start throwing political opponents in jail like some banana republic based on legal stretches or theories, trust the voters to sort it out. Remember them?
Van Orden’s outburst and continuous cursing at 16 and 17-year-old high school students who work as Senate pages was so troubling it brought liberals and conservatives together in denouncing his behavior.
ent privacy.
Fortunately, there is a workable solution. Under federal law, schools are prohibited from releasing “personally identifiable information” about students. That means that schools can share records, data and information with the public, so long as they make sure to redact any language or details that can be tied to an individual student.
If we don’t start listening, more blood will be shed on the streets this summer, and our prison system will be filled with the unfulfilled potential of our city’s young people.
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.
Wisconsin needs a better example of leadership.
GOP keeps shifting highest tax burden from rich to the poor.
Black Americans go missing at rates high above people of other backgrounds.
State leaders must ensure that the end of continuous Medicaid coverage does not also mark the end of robust access to effective mental health care for tens of thousands of kids with autism.
After a long, bitter, and record-breakingly expensive state Supreme Court race, Protasiewicz takes her seat this week, tilting the bench on the state’s highest court to the left for the first time in 15 years
O’Donnell weighs the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s new liberal majority ignoring precedent and possibly the state’s open meetings law to fire Wisconsin’s director of State Courts.
The first action of the new 4-3 liberal Supreme Court majority was to engage in a senseless partisan witch hunt.
The Economic Policy Institute recently raised a warning flag over the growing trend among state legislatures to weaken child labor laws.
Is it a crime to take bad legal advice? That’s the George Costanza defense Donald Trump’s sycophants are positing.
Before we start throwing political opponents in jail like some banana republic based on legal stretches or theories, trust the voters to sort it out. Remember them?
Van Orden’s outburst and continuous cursing at 16 and 17-year-old high school students who work as Senate pages was so troubling it brought liberals and conservatives together in denouncing his behavior.
ent privacy.
Fortunately, there is a workable solution. Under federal law, schools are prohibited from releasing “personally identifiable information” about students. That means that schools can share records, data and information with the public, so long as they make sure to redact any language or details that can be tied to an individual student.
If we don’t start listening, more blood will be shed on the streets this summer, and our prison system will be filled with the unfulfilled potential of our city’s young people.
