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Wisconsin Republicans have joined a widespread effort to ease child labor laws to allow more kids to work more often in more places. While advertised as a way to help ease the national labor shortage, it is the kids who will benefit most if the laws are relaxed.
We believe that working with tenants to be good neighbors and renters, coupled with providing access to affordable, clean, high-quality housing is key to solving our city’s housing challenges.
Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, even in the face of glaring indictments from a special prosecutor designated by the Justice Department shows how destructive a cult personality can be.
Our state has a choice between two divergent futures. One choice is demographic and economic decline. The other is to seize the opportunity at hand right now to transform our tax system and make Wisconsin a regional or even national magnet.
If paving the way for massive school privatization is not what he thought he was agreeing to in his deal with legislators, Evers should say so, and get out his veto pen.
Not all students learn in the same manner and to limit reading instruction to just one method will not allow for supplementing instruction for those whom phonics is not totally effective.
According to the Milwaukee Community Journal’s Mikel Holt, North Division is the worse performing school in Wisconsin, rated by every state and national assessment group and it’s the only school where proficiency rates for math, reading, science, and gym is stuck at zero.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism produced an important report last month on how private schools in Wisconsin can legally discriminate against disabled and LGBT students even if they receive taxpayer dollars to subsidize their operations.
As Juneteenth approaches Monday, a recent controversy in Greenville, South Carolina, shows we’re still learning how to fully honor an event that was only made a federal holiday two years ago.
Many of these environmental proposals are slated for removal from the state budget bill by Republicans, but final votes won’t occur until the end of the month. Before they vote, legislative Republicans should consider a recent statewide poll that shows overwhelming public support for conservation measures.
Wisconsin’s criminal courts face a constitutional crisis that has been decades in the making. The culprit? The state’s refusal to adequately compensate the lawyers who make fair trials and the right to counsel a reality.
Please, Dane County, stop using that racial equity lens.
Even after Walker was swept from office in 2018, his Republican allies retained control of the state Legislature and prevented Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from undoing much of the damage. But after Evers won a second term in 2022 by a comfortable margin, things began to loosen up.
Did Governor Evers or Republicans win the negotiations? Who is looking out for the taxpayer? What happened to transformative tax reform?
The Chicano pioneer in Madison mentored hundreds, helped create and lead vital organizations.
Nature acknowledges and respects no borders. What happens hundreds or even thousands of miles away will reach us, will affect us, may afflict us.
Helping Wisconsin adopt Medicaid expansion could be Thompson’s crowning legacy.
Stingy numbers for hospitals in the state and county. Should state require more charity care?
If Wisconsin can add to the significant progress apparently about to be made in education reform, enact lower taxes, reduce regulation, and hang on to right-to-work and Act 10, among other things, we will be in a good position — even as a purple state — to continue to gain from our neighbors’ wrong-headed embrace of progressive governance.
Wisconsin Republicans have joined a widespread effort to ease child labor laws to allow more kids to work more often in more places. While advertised as a way to help ease the national labor shortage, it is the kids who will benefit most if the laws are relaxed.
We believe that working with tenants to be good neighbors and renters, coupled with providing access to affordable, clean, high-quality housing is key to solving our city’s housing challenges.
Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, even in the face of glaring indictments from a special prosecutor designated by the Justice Department shows how destructive a cult personality can be.
Our state has a choice between two divergent futures. One choice is demographic and economic decline. The other is to seize the opportunity at hand right now to transform our tax system and make Wisconsin a regional or even national magnet.
If paving the way for massive school privatization is not what he thought he was agreeing to in his deal with legislators, Evers should say so, and get out his veto pen.
Not all students learn in the same manner and to limit reading instruction to just one method will not allow for supplementing instruction for those whom phonics is not totally effective.
According to the Milwaukee Community Journal’s Mikel Holt, North Division is the worse performing school in Wisconsin, rated by every state and national assessment group and it’s the only school where proficiency rates for math, reading, science, and gym is stuck at zero.
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism produced an important report last month on how private schools in Wisconsin can legally discriminate against disabled and LGBT students even if they receive taxpayer dollars to subsidize their operations.
As Juneteenth approaches Monday, a recent controversy in Greenville, South Carolina, shows we’re still learning how to fully honor an event that was only made a federal holiday two years ago.
Many of these environmental proposals are slated for removal from the state budget bill by Republicans, but final votes won’t occur until the end of the month. Before they vote, legislative Republicans should consider a recent statewide poll that shows overwhelming public support for conservation measures.
Wisconsin’s criminal courts face a constitutional crisis that has been decades in the making. The culprit? The state’s refusal to adequately compensate the lawyers who make fair trials and the right to counsel a reality.
Please, Dane County, stop using that racial equity lens.
Even after Walker was swept from office in 2018, his Republican allies retained control of the state Legislature and prevented Democratic Gov. Tony Evers from undoing much of the damage. But after Evers won a second term in 2022 by a comfortable margin, things began to loosen up.
Did Governor Evers or Republicans win the negotiations? Who is looking out for the taxpayer? What happened to transformative tax reform?
The Chicano pioneer in Madison mentored hundreds, helped create and lead vital organizations.
Nature acknowledges and respects no borders. What happens hundreds or even thousands of miles away will reach us, will affect us, may afflict us.
Helping Wisconsin adopt Medicaid expansion could be Thompson’s crowning legacy.
Stingy numbers for hospitals in the state and county. Should state require more charity care?
If Wisconsin can add to the significant progress apparently about to be made in education reform, enact lower taxes, reduce regulation, and hang on to right-to-work and Act 10, among other things, we will be in a good position — even as a purple state — to continue to gain from our neighbors’ wrong-headed embrace of progressive governance.
