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It would have been wasteful to spend $750 million of state money when it was widely known even before yesterday’s official announcement that the state was in line to get even more than that from the feds.
The low number of Black students graduating with a bachelor’s degree at UW-Madison is a travesty — and, despite an enormous DEI bureaucracy, it’s not getting better.
Equity component of plan would create jobs for those that need them most.
Today, students are talking about fossil fuel divestment and the environment. More than 30 years ago, my fellow students and I were talking about divestment that impacted the very freedoms of Black and Brown people.
Today the left is better represented on city councils, county boards and school boards, in state legislatures and in Congress than at any time in modern history.
In one fell swoop, the 12 Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee voted to cut $32 million from the UW System’s budget to further their culture war against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts while enacting a tax cut that once again favors the very rich among us.
We need to do everything we can in to compete and create opportunity for workers in Wisconsin, and we need to alter the state tax code to do that — or see those high-earners move to other states and leave the rest of us to pay the bills.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson … I have asked members of the Milwaukee Common Council to join me in the necessary step of approving a two-percent city sales tax.
Wisconsin has the best higher education system in the nation, but it can be better with forward-looking planning. The time is now to study how we get to that better future.
The First Amendment is under assault from multiple directions in America, including Wisconsin.
Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t enough for anti-choice extremists.
The Dobbs decision is saving lives across America. The pro-life community continues to fight for those who cannot speak for themselves, and their efforts are to be applauded.
For those who wanted to see Roe v. Wade overturned little has gone right since they got what they wanted exactly a year ago today in the Dobbs decision.
Her activism sparked by moving to Milwaukee during housing marches.
Instead of shifting to serious coverage, they ran on autopilot and left Americans without the news they needed. That’s a dangerous precedent for journalism—and democracy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the winners and losers under the biennial budget plan approved by the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Twentysomethings are coming to Madison in large numbers for good jobs, affordability and cultural amenities.
I suspect that thousands of my fellow UW grads are embarrassed that our alma mater saw fit to grant you a degree.
When and why did bringing internet access to every home and business in Wisconsin become the sole province of government, rather than the marketing mission of established private internet providers?
Some goals that seemed out of reach even a few months ago have gained approval from Republicans and Democrats alike.
It would have been wasteful to spend $750 million of state money when it was widely known even before yesterday’s official announcement that the state was in line to get even more than that from the feds.
The low number of Black students graduating with a bachelor’s degree at UW-Madison is a travesty — and, despite an enormous DEI bureaucracy, it’s not getting better.
Equity component of plan would create jobs for those that need them most.
Today, students are talking about fossil fuel divestment and the environment. More than 30 years ago, my fellow students and I were talking about divestment that impacted the very freedoms of Black and Brown people.
Today the left is better represented on city councils, county boards and school boards, in state legislatures and in Congress than at any time in modern history.
In one fell swoop, the 12 Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee voted to cut $32 million from the UW System’s budget to further their culture war against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts while enacting a tax cut that once again favors the very rich among us.
We need to do everything we can in to compete and create opportunity for workers in Wisconsin, and we need to alter the state tax code to do that — or see those high-earners move to other states and leave the rest of us to pay the bills.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson … I have asked members of the Milwaukee Common Council to join me in the necessary step of approving a two-percent city sales tax.
Wisconsin has the best higher education system in the nation, but it can be better with forward-looking planning. The time is now to study how we get to that better future.
The First Amendment is under assault from multiple directions in America, including Wisconsin.
Overturning Roe v. Wade isn’t enough for anti-choice extremists.
The Dobbs decision is saving lives across America. The pro-life community continues to fight for those who cannot speak for themselves, and their efforts are to be applauded.
For those who wanted to see Roe v. Wade overturned little has gone right since they got what they wanted exactly a year ago today in the Dobbs decision.
Her activism sparked by moving to Milwaukee during housing marches.
Instead of shifting to serious coverage, they ran on autopilot and left Americans without the news they needed. That’s a dangerous precedent for journalism—and democracy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the winners and losers under the biennial budget plan approved by the GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Twentysomethings are coming to Madison in large numbers for good jobs, affordability and cultural amenities.
I suspect that thousands of my fellow UW grads are embarrassed that our alma mater saw fit to grant you a degree.
When and why did bringing internet access to every home and business in Wisconsin become the sole province of government, rather than the marketing mission of established private internet providers?
Some goals that seemed out of reach even a few months ago have gained approval from Republicans and Democrats alike.