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The battle over unions in Milwaukee and U.S. shows the uncool side of coffee culture.

What should be done with Wisconsin’s state surplus?

Measly couple of bucks in breaks insults taxpayers.

Advisory referendums are non-binding ways for voters to demonstrate that there is popular support for or opposition to issues such as abortion rights and gerrymandered voting districts.

Don’t start school unless you plan to finish.

By blocking the Right to Contraception Act, Fitzgerald, Gallagher, Grothman, Steil, Tiffany and their fellow congressional Republicans proved they care far more about appeasing their extremist MAGA base than representing the American people.

Why would anyone in the GOP-controlled Legislature wish to curtail a legal process regarding guns in possession by a person with mental or emotional issues which might be used for violence?

The American dream is even more available for legal immigrants today than it was for my ancestors many generations ago. We welcome those who long to breathe free.

Wisconsin’s Republican senator said he wasn’t expecting to pay himself back for loans he made to his campaign, and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars from his donors were recently sent to his personal bank account.

A new tax proposal being promoted by Republicans in Congress would explode our deficit and predominantly benefit the ultra-wealthy, big corporations and even foreign investors.

Abortion rights advocates are about to get their second preliminary victory in a month when Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz is sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.

As a woman and a medical professional, I simply can’t believe that — in 2023 — we are having to defend basic contraception against politicians with a dangerous habit of discounting science and playing politics with people’s lives.

Wisconsin’s minimum markup law harms consumers by driving prices higher.

Gov. Tony Evers proposed to have the state keep funding the program after the federal aid expires this year, but Republican legislators jettisoned that proposal from the budget.

On August 1, Supreme Court Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz will be sworn in, giving liberals a 4-3 majority on the state’s highest court for the first time in more than 15 years.

Seniors, people with disabilities and AARP are fed up with the SSA’s poor service.

It is Kinzinger’s experience inside the Republican Party, I think, that makes him an especially important speaker for an audience in Madison, where the sharpest political divide is often between the far left and the center left.

Trump’s desire to thwart the faith of the citizenry in the very foundations of our government is exactly what authoritarians do when they wish to take power and undo democratic processes.

In the majority opinion of the court, Chief Justice John Roberts definitively stated that, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”

Becoming a national figure with ever more effective leadership. Just ask the Republicans.

The battle over unions in Milwaukee and U.S. shows the uncool side of coffee culture.

What should be done with Wisconsin’s state surplus?

Measly couple of bucks in breaks insults taxpayers.

Advisory referendums are non-binding ways for voters to demonstrate that there is popular support for or opposition to issues such as abortion rights and gerrymandered voting districts.

Don’t start school unless you plan to finish.

By blocking the Right to Contraception Act, Fitzgerald, Gallagher, Grothman, Steil, Tiffany and their fellow congressional Republicans proved they care far more about appeasing their extremist MAGA base than representing the American people.

Why would anyone in the GOP-controlled Legislature wish to curtail a legal process regarding guns in possession by a person with mental or emotional issues which might be used for violence?

The American dream is even more available for legal immigrants today than it was for my ancestors many generations ago. We welcome those who long to breathe free.

Wisconsin’s Republican senator said he wasn’t expecting to pay himself back for loans he made to his campaign, and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars from his donors were recently sent to his personal bank account.

A new tax proposal being promoted by Republicans in Congress would explode our deficit and predominantly benefit the ultra-wealthy, big corporations and even foreign investors.

Abortion rights advocates are about to get their second preliminary victory in a month when Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz is sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.

As a woman and a medical professional, I simply can’t believe that — in 2023 — we are having to defend basic contraception against politicians with a dangerous habit of discounting science and playing politics with people’s lives.

Wisconsin’s minimum markup law harms consumers by driving prices higher.

Gov. Tony Evers proposed to have the state keep funding the program after the federal aid expires this year, but Republican legislators jettisoned that proposal from the budget.

On August 1, Supreme Court Justice-elect Janet Protasiewicz will be sworn in, giving liberals a 4-3 majority on the state’s highest court for the first time in more than 15 years.

Seniors, people with disabilities and AARP are fed up with the SSA’s poor service.

It is Kinzinger’s experience inside the Republican Party, I think, that makes him an especially important speaker for an audience in Madison, where the sharpest political divide is often between the far left and the center left.

Trump’s desire to thwart the faith of the citizenry in the very foundations of our government is exactly what authoritarians do when they wish to take power and undo democratic processes.

In the majority opinion of the court, Chief Justice John Roberts definitively stated that, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”

Becoming a national figure with ever more effective leadership. Just ask the Republicans.