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Governors, state legislatures and governing boards are pressuring schools to alter their curricula and eliminate programs designed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

Liberals used to be for a clash of ideas. But now the hard-left has established an ever-growing liberal canon, an orthodoxy that may not be questioned.

A Whitnall School District employee rigged an election for school board president.

It is refreshing to have strong forceful voices from the GOP standing up against repression and brute force from tyrants on the national stage.

Conservative panel for symposium canceled at Medical College of Wisconsin.

The crisis at the UW-Madison this past week should give administrators — and all of us — pause about how we continually fail to support traditionally underrepresented and underserved students.

For far too long, we’ve taken the people who raise, teach and care for children for granted, thanking them with muffins, sticky hugs, warm wishes and poverty wages. Lately, even the hugs and warm wishes are on the decline, as teacher-bashing and a divisive crusade for “parents’ rights” has become a plank in the national Republican platform — a trend that started right here in Wisconsin.

The pundits disagree. And who is the likely Republican opponent?

There are huge differences between the two plans for cities, villages and towns across Wisconsin.

Republican shared revenue bill would bar local advisory referendums.

Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, has introduced a bill to require Wisconsin health care providers to publish prices online for their significant procedures and treatments.

Here in Wisconsin, a volunteer corps of citizens calling itself Wisconsin United to Amend has been working tirelessly to persuade local communities to hold advisory referendums giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to remedy the commercialization of free speech.

In this era of extreme polarization there is growing concern that a new danger is evolving — not the so-called tyranny of the majority that the Bill of Rights addresses, but that of the new tyranny of the minority.

The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.

Deal for Milwaukee County far better than for city. Why? Blame police union.

Republican legislators are attempting to force local government leaders to do the things that they should already be doing by incentivizing them with more money to spend. This is a government solution, for government, by government.

Evers is one of the latest to propose this new public benefit.

While outward forces of racial hatred against people of color are no longer as common as they were during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, what has taken the place of physical violence is annihilation via public policy.

Time for red flag laws, universal background checks following 4th officer shot to death this year.

A group of grassroots activists, led by Congressman Tom Tiffany, have bucked statewide trends and have had remarkable victories across the northern region of the state.

Governors, state legislatures and governing boards are pressuring schools to alter their curricula and eliminate programs designed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

Liberals used to be for a clash of ideas. But now the hard-left has established an ever-growing liberal canon, an orthodoxy that may not be questioned.

A Whitnall School District employee rigged an election for school board president.

It is refreshing to have strong forceful voices from the GOP standing up against repression and brute force from tyrants on the national stage.

Conservative panel for symposium canceled at Medical College of Wisconsin.

The crisis at the UW-Madison this past week should give administrators — and all of us — pause about how we continually fail to support traditionally underrepresented and underserved students.

For far too long, we’ve taken the people who raise, teach and care for children for granted, thanking them with muffins, sticky hugs, warm wishes and poverty wages. Lately, even the hugs and warm wishes are on the decline, as teacher-bashing and a divisive crusade for “parents’ rights” has become a plank in the national Republican platform — a trend that started right here in Wisconsin.

The pundits disagree. And who is the likely Republican opponent?

There are huge differences between the two plans for cities, villages and towns across Wisconsin.

Republican shared revenue bill would bar local advisory referendums.

Sen. Mary Felzkowski, R-Tomahawk, has introduced a bill to require Wisconsin health care providers to publish prices online for their significant procedures and treatments.

Here in Wisconsin, a volunteer corps of citizens calling itself Wisconsin United to Amend has been working tirelessly to persuade local communities to hold advisory referendums giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to remedy the commercialization of free speech.

In this era of extreme polarization there is growing concern that a new danger is evolving — not the so-called tyranny of the majority that the Bill of Rights addresses, but that of the new tyranny of the minority.

The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.

Deal for Milwaukee County far better than for city. Why? Blame police union.

Republican legislators are attempting to force local government leaders to do the things that they should already be doing by incentivizing them with more money to spend. This is a government solution, for government, by government.

Evers is one of the latest to propose this new public benefit.

While outward forces of racial hatred against people of color are no longer as common as they were during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, what has taken the place of physical violence is annihilation via public policy.

Time for red flag laws, universal background checks following 4th officer shot to death this year.

A group of grassroots activists, led by Congressman Tom Tiffany, have bucked statewide trends and have had remarkable victories across the northern region of the state.