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We encourage the State Legislature to give the people of the city and county of Milwaukee the opportunity to determine their future and that includes finally holding the policymakers accountable.
While legislators disagree on how to best address the problem, and lobbyists use their outsized resources to stop meaningful legislation from moving forward, private citizens, neighborhood groups, and local municipalities are taking measures into their own hands.
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan suggested that, if Donald Trump wins a third nomination, the party will disintegrate.
Some have attacked Sarah for speaking out for democracy, suggesting she is acting out of ambition or opportunism. They could not be more wrong.
The criticism aimed at Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski is rooted in sexism.
The debate over whether states should elect Supreme Court justices like Wisconsin and 23 other states do, or appoint them like 26 states do, continues unabated.
Baldwin was the only member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation who led from start to finish to prevent a debt default.
How the debt ceiling fight exposed Republican bankruptcy
Establishing top priorities isn’t easy. The Joint Committee on Finance will have to make tough choices as time moves closer to June 30.
No more significant challenge exists today than the fiscal crisis in Milwaukee.
When schools threaten to teach things that parents think are poison, parents need the option to act — to engage, to call the school board to account, to leave for a better school. Parents understand this continuum.
CMS must reconsider its national coverage determination for Coverage with Evidence Development so patients can have access to the care they need if it is determined to be a good fit for their health.
We must protect patients and hold insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers accountable by taking action at the state and federal levels.
Epic’s noncompete agreements are panned in public comments to the Federal Trade Commission.
Shelia Stubbs’ confirmation process exposes decline of media coverage.
Twelve years ago 14 Democratic senators bolted from the Wisconsin capital to deny majority Republicans a quorum.
Socialism is Walker’s name for almost anything that helps people.
So far, the announced (or soon-to-be) field stands at 10 — dangerously approaching 2016, when there were 17 and the debates had to be held in shifts like meal time at Little Annie’s orphanage.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the fate of GOP legislative proposals to increase local sales tax rates for Milwaukee. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
PEN America has identified over 100 “educational gag order” bills introduced in 33 state legislatures since January 2021.
We encourage the State Legislature to give the people of the city and county of Milwaukee the opportunity to determine their future and that includes finally holding the policymakers accountable.
While legislators disagree on how to best address the problem, and lobbyists use their outsized resources to stop meaningful legislation from moving forward, private citizens, neighborhood groups, and local municipalities are taking measures into their own hands.
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan suggested that, if Donald Trump wins a third nomination, the party will disintegrate.
Some have attacked Sarah for speaking out for democracy, suggesting she is acting out of ambition or opportunism. They could not be more wrong.
The criticism aimed at Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski is rooted in sexism.
The debate over whether states should elect Supreme Court justices like Wisconsin and 23 other states do, or appoint them like 26 states do, continues unabated.
Baldwin was the only member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation who led from start to finish to prevent a debt default.
How the debt ceiling fight exposed Republican bankruptcy
Establishing top priorities isn’t easy. The Joint Committee on Finance will have to make tough choices as time moves closer to June 30.
No more significant challenge exists today than the fiscal crisis in Milwaukee.
When schools threaten to teach things that parents think are poison, parents need the option to act — to engage, to call the school board to account, to leave for a better school. Parents understand this continuum.
CMS must reconsider its national coverage determination for Coverage with Evidence Development so patients can have access to the care they need if it is determined to be a good fit for their health.
We must protect patients and hold insurers and pharmaceutical benefit managers accountable by taking action at the state and federal levels.
Epic’s noncompete agreements are panned in public comments to the Federal Trade Commission.
Shelia Stubbs’ confirmation process exposes decline of media coverage.
Twelve years ago 14 Democratic senators bolted from the Wisconsin capital to deny majority Republicans a quorum.
Socialism is Walker’s name for almost anything that helps people.
So far, the announced (or soon-to-be) field stands at 10 — dangerously approaching 2016, when there were 17 and the debates had to be held in shifts like meal time at Little Annie’s orphanage.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the fate of GOP legislative proposals to increase local sales tax rates for Milwaukee. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association.
PEN America has identified over 100 “educational gag order” bills introduced in 33 state legislatures since January 2021.