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The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider requests for state funding from the Packers and Brewers. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Money and greed were both at play in the firing of CNN chief executive Chris Licht and the PGA’s merger with a golf league financed by the same Saudi royalty implicated in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The bargain struck Thursday between legislative leaders and the governor ensures the financial sustainability of the school choice and charter school programs but also increases the low revenue ceiling for public school districts that are on the bottom of the revenue spectrum.
Wisconsin Republicans haven’t quite got the hang of constructive engagement.
Whether I am an elected official, a candidate, or just the proud product of a union household, I will always stand side-by-side with unions in their fight to keep their jobs at home and stand up to a shortsighted CEO who would abandon a profitable plant and dedicated workforce to pursue a risky outsourcing strategy.
Do Epic’s extensive work restrictions on former employees stymie entrepreneurial growth in Dane County?
“Small-Town Wisconsin” celebrates an estimated 1,500 Wisconsin municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Farmers do more than just produce food, fiber and fuel; they act as stewards of our land, conserving soil and enhancing water quality.
We have a flag that already incorporates the inclusion of each and every American.
The district’s top administrator has been silent about the bad behavior of his spokesperson
North Carolina has shown expansion is possible in Wisconsin.
North Carolina’s move to expand Medicaid has renewed debate.
Budget control will never be achieved with this attitude.
A strong record isn’t enough. You need big, bold ideas.
Johnson and many other wealthy people don’t think the impacts of climate change will touch them.
Pretty soon we’re going to need longer flag poles.
But only Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch got the whole deal right.
Republican lawmaker wants constitutional amendment to force future governors to share how future emergency aid is spent.
For all of its fanfare, the GOP has offered most state residents much less money than was advertised and in return required local governments to adopt a laundry list of undemocratic and regressive policies, items that would be easily vetoed if they were separate bills.
As we watch what has become a biennial spectacle of Republican lawmakers doing everything they can to make sure the state budget works for only a privileged few, I can’t help notice how much Scott Walker’s influence still grips the Legislature.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider requests for state funding from the Packers and Brewers. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Money and greed were both at play in the firing of CNN chief executive Chris Licht and the PGA’s merger with a golf league financed by the same Saudi royalty implicated in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The bargain struck Thursday between legislative leaders and the governor ensures the financial sustainability of the school choice and charter school programs but also increases the low revenue ceiling for public school districts that are on the bottom of the revenue spectrum.
Wisconsin Republicans haven’t quite got the hang of constructive engagement.
Whether I am an elected official, a candidate, or just the proud product of a union household, I will always stand side-by-side with unions in their fight to keep their jobs at home and stand up to a shortsighted CEO who would abandon a profitable plant and dedicated workforce to pursue a risky outsourcing strategy.
Do Epic’s extensive work restrictions on former employees stymie entrepreneurial growth in Dane County?
“Small-Town Wisconsin” celebrates an estimated 1,500 Wisconsin municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Farmers do more than just produce food, fiber and fuel; they act as stewards of our land, conserving soil and enhancing water quality.
We have a flag that already incorporates the inclusion of each and every American.
The district’s top administrator has been silent about the bad behavior of his spokesperson
North Carolina has shown expansion is possible in Wisconsin.
North Carolina’s move to expand Medicaid has renewed debate.
Budget control will never be achieved with this attitude.
A strong record isn’t enough. You need big, bold ideas.
Johnson and many other wealthy people don’t think the impacts of climate change will touch them.
Pretty soon we’re going to need longer flag poles.
But only Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch got the whole deal right.
Republican lawmaker wants constitutional amendment to force future governors to share how future emergency aid is spent.
For all of its fanfare, the GOP has offered most state residents much less money than was advertised and in return required local governments to adopt a laundry list of undemocratic and regressive policies, items that would be easily vetoed if they were separate bills.
As we watch what has become a biennial spectacle of Republican lawmakers doing everything they can to make sure the state budget works for only a privileged few, I can’t help notice how much Scott Walker’s influence still grips the Legislature.
