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A plan from the Republican Legislature to increase shared revenue from the state to cities like Milwaukee and forces liberal-led municipalities to reject their own worst impulses.
As of August 1, its hostility toward experts and democracy won’t fly.
Winning Wisconsin is the key to the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump should come to the first debate in Milwaukee. Voters in Wisconsin do not take being ignored lightly.
Why conservatives should hope he tries.
Senate Bill 117, sponsored by Sen. Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville) and Rep. Todd Novak (R-Dodgeville), would allow a judge to decide whether a records requester is entitled to attorney fees regardless of when a stalled request for public documents is finally fulfilled.
The Waukesha School Board is well within its authority to keep and enforce the “Controversial Issues” policy, and an attempt to strike it down as a First Amendment violation would require opponents to prove that certain viewpoints are being discriminated against.
Climate change is making extreme weather worse and will further disrupt our lives, livelihoods and economy unless and until it is curbed.
Program with huge 100-to-1 return inspired by comedian John Oliver. Seriously.
The time to crown a new MAGA champion to ride the wave into the future has come.
When a large segment of this country continues to ignore the ugly parts of American history to advocate for reclaiming a time when America was great, it bothers me that they do not at least provide some details as to when that time was.
The president spoke powerfully about the importance of journalism. He needs to back those words up and end US efforts to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder.
It’s crunch time in Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign lands from a vicious assault by Russia.
Joint Finance Committee Republicans cite concerns local government raised in voting to reject the use of $4 million for the Pelican River Forest conservation deal.
JFC vote on Pelican River Forest easement is a big win for northern Wisconsin, but don’t expect the DNR to give up, or to reform itself.
Not unlike Ron DeSantis and Disney, a cluster of outspoken Republican legislators continue to use the UW System — UW-Madison in particular — as a whipping boy.
Declining enrollment threatens the very existence of Wisconsin colleges and is another sign of how lack of population growth is hurting the state.
In a hasty hearing that was over in time for lunch, they eliminated 545 provisions in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget on Tuesday in a single, straight party-line vote.
Evers wants to limit the value of the Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit and raise taxes on manufacturers by more than $650 million in his proposed budget, despite the state having a projected $7.1 billion surplus.
The shared revenue bill that the Assembly Republicans just introduced would ban counties and municipalities from putting advisory referendums on the ballot.
Why won’t those we elect value children, people and life as much as they value guns?
A plan from the Republican Legislature to increase shared revenue from the state to cities like Milwaukee and forces liberal-led municipalities to reject their own worst impulses.
As of August 1, its hostility toward experts and democracy won’t fly.
Winning Wisconsin is the key to the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump should come to the first debate in Milwaukee. Voters in Wisconsin do not take being ignored lightly.
Why conservatives should hope he tries.
Senate Bill 117, sponsored by Sen. Duey Stroebel (R-Saukville) and Rep. Todd Novak (R-Dodgeville), would allow a judge to decide whether a records requester is entitled to attorney fees regardless of when a stalled request for public documents is finally fulfilled.
The Waukesha School Board is well within its authority to keep and enforce the “Controversial Issues” policy, and an attempt to strike it down as a First Amendment violation would require opponents to prove that certain viewpoints are being discriminated against.
Climate change is making extreme weather worse and will further disrupt our lives, livelihoods and economy unless and until it is curbed.
Program with huge 100-to-1 return inspired by comedian John Oliver. Seriously.
The time to crown a new MAGA champion to ride the wave into the future has come.
When a large segment of this country continues to ignore the ugly parts of American history to advocate for reclaiming a time when America was great, it bothers me that they do not at least provide some details as to when that time was.
The president spoke powerfully about the importance of journalism. He needs to back those words up and end US efforts to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder.
It’s crunch time in Ukraine’s defense of its sovereign lands from a vicious assault by Russia.
Joint Finance Committee Republicans cite concerns local government raised in voting to reject the use of $4 million for the Pelican River Forest conservation deal.
JFC vote on Pelican River Forest easement is a big win for northern Wisconsin, but don’t expect the DNR to give up, or to reform itself.
Not unlike Ron DeSantis and Disney, a cluster of outspoken Republican legislators continue to use the UW System — UW-Madison in particular — as a whipping boy.
Declining enrollment threatens the very existence of Wisconsin colleges and is another sign of how lack of population growth is hurting the state.
In a hasty hearing that was over in time for lunch, they eliminated 545 provisions in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget on Tuesday in a single, straight party-line vote.
Evers wants to limit the value of the Manufacturing and Agriculture Tax Credit and raise taxes on manufacturers by more than $650 million in his proposed budget, despite the state having a projected $7.1 billion surplus.
The shared revenue bill that the Assembly Republicans just introduced would ban counties and municipalities from putting advisory referendums on the ballot.
Why won’t those we elect value children, people and life as much as they value guns?
