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The Biden administration forcing nursing homes to meet a one-size-fits-all requirement without enough available workers in the labor market is an unrealistic expectation.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and illegally banned citizens from carrying — concealed or not — all firearms in her state. The good progressive based her diktat on the science of public health.
On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced that the Legislature would finally get on board with Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to adopt Iowa’s method of drawing state legislative boundaries, but the Governor called the idea “bogus.”
When it comes to Vos, the devil is always in the details.
Vos fears that the Protasiewicz court will reverse engineer the map of Wisconsin to tilt the field toward Democrats. You can call Vos opportunistic. You can call him hypocritical, but you can also call him a realist.
Pardon my cynical side when I openly admit I do not trust the abrupt, at the last minute, major policy change as his party is pressed to the wall.
Federal and state case law suggest there are no grounds for impeachment.
Vos and Republican legislators simply refuse to accept the results of our elections and respecting the decisions of the majority of Wisconsin’s voters.
Our health and well-being depend on it.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers have a plan to eliminate taxes on retirement income for most individuals over 67.
Following the second federal indictment charging former President Donald Trump with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, Trump supporters claimed he truly believed Democrats stole the election from him. The belief, they asserted, justified his schemes to remain in power.
Despite the terrible nature of the attacks, and the thousands of deaths of Americans as well as citizens of other countries, as a national community we were remarkably mature.
The Iowa model, with its emphasis on anti-partisan gerrymandering and collaboration between a commission and the Legislature, appeared promising. But we also recognized a crucial fact: what works for Iowa doesn’t necessarily work for Wisconsin.
To recuse or not? It depends on whose side you’re on
The GOP is trying to impeach judges over nothing, but Dems won’t even go after Clarence Thomas for his very real mega-corruption. Come on!
I’m calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to collaborate and reach a funding agreement to ensure the continuation of the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Governor Evers is running an office in which romantic relationships between superiors and subordinates is allowed at great risk to the taxpayers and at great consternation to others in the office who do not have exclusive access to his chief of staff’s ear in the wee hours of the morning.
Poll finds residents oppose subsidy by 2-1 margin, could make a deal even tougher to sell.
From the perspective of a business person who has served on more than 50 boards, both men would be long gone from the upper levels of a business C-Suite.
The four deadliest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and New Mexico. Two have Democratic governors, and two have Republican governors. Some red states look bad, and some look good. The same is true for blue states.
The Biden administration forcing nursing homes to meet a one-size-fits-all requirement without enough available workers in the labor market is an unrealistic expectation.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and illegally banned citizens from carrying — concealed or not — all firearms in her state. The good progressive based her diktat on the science of public health.
On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced that the Legislature would finally get on board with Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to adopt Iowa’s method of drawing state legislative boundaries, but the Governor called the idea “bogus.”
When it comes to Vos, the devil is always in the details.
Vos fears that the Protasiewicz court will reverse engineer the map of Wisconsin to tilt the field toward Democrats. You can call Vos opportunistic. You can call him hypocritical, but you can also call him a realist.
Pardon my cynical side when I openly admit I do not trust the abrupt, at the last minute, major policy change as his party is pressed to the wall.
Federal and state case law suggest there are no grounds for impeachment.
Vos and Republican legislators simply refuse to accept the results of our elections and respecting the decisions of the majority of Wisconsin’s voters.
Our health and well-being depend on it.
Wisconsin Republican lawmakers have a plan to eliminate taxes on retirement income for most individuals over 67.
Following the second federal indictment charging former President Donald Trump with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, Trump supporters claimed he truly believed Democrats stole the election from him. The belief, they asserted, justified his schemes to remain in power.
Despite the terrible nature of the attacks, and the thousands of deaths of Americans as well as citizens of other countries, as a national community we were remarkably mature.
The Iowa model, with its emphasis on anti-partisan gerrymandering and collaboration between a commission and the Legislature, appeared promising. But we also recognized a crucial fact: what works for Iowa doesn’t necessarily work for Wisconsin.
To recuse or not? It depends on whose side you’re on
The GOP is trying to impeach judges over nothing, but Dems won’t even go after Clarence Thomas for his very real mega-corruption. Come on!
I’m calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to collaborate and reach a funding agreement to ensure the continuation of the Affordable Connectivity Program.
Governor Evers is running an office in which romantic relationships between superiors and subordinates is allowed at great risk to the taxpayers and at great consternation to others in the office who do not have exclusive access to his chief of staff’s ear in the wee hours of the morning.
Poll finds residents oppose subsidy by 2-1 margin, could make a deal even tougher to sell.
From the perspective of a business person who has served on more than 50 boards, both men would be long gone from the upper levels of a business C-Suite.
The four deadliest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and New Mexico. Two have Democratic governors, and two have Republican governors. Some red states look bad, and some look good. The same is true for blue states.
