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Perhaps our alders deserve a modest raise, but let’s not fall in the trap that would put the city on the road to a full-time City Council.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, share the top political stories of 2023. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Regents so desperately wanted Vos to quit blocking budgeted UW pay raises and building projects that they handed Republicans an alarming and deeply symbolic triumph — emasculating UW’s efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.
How about some real diversity instead of the DEI sham that demonstrably does not help Black students?
This fight still isn’t over, given there may be lawsuits challenging parts of the deal or the process itself, and there may be enough disappointed GOP senators to block passage once the 17-part deal comes back to the full Legislature for approval – most likely in January or February.
Today, I’m proud to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Respect for Marriage Act, the landmark bipartisan legislation I helped pass that enshrined marriage equality into law nationwide.
That’s what Kenneth Chesebro is telling Michigan prosecutors.
Being Black in America, each day is a challenge to not lose your mind and think that you are as W.E.B. DuBois talked about … a “problem.” Miseducation can only be reversed by re-education, which will never take place in America’s formal educational system.
Zach Brandon and his crew at the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce stopped by the office this week to give us a rundown on the business organization’s goals for the year ahead.
Ranked-choice is a disaster and should be rejected the second it is proposed.
This one is not about a football play. It’s about legislative Republicans discovering a novel way of getting around both a Democratic Governor and a liberal Supreme Court.
Dobbs is just the latest abortion restriction to harm Wisconsinites, especially low-income Wisconsinites.
We have all heard horror stories where a patient with insurance goes to the hospital in their network, and still, weeks later, they end up with bills of $20,000 or more.
Our GOP, legislating shrinking wages and small business growth through divide and conquer politics, has made us struggle to keep our heads above water. We have found the enemy, it is us, not some national policy issue.
The true irony in getting mail from Pocan regarding challenges in affording groceries is that he and his Democratic friends in Congress are the chief architects of this economic scourge of inflation we are experiencing.
Saturday morning’s vote by the majority of the UW Board of Regents to reject a grand compromise worked out by their own system president says everything we need to know about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party right now.
The regents of the Universities of Wisconsin get a do-over Wednesday. A make-up test, if you will. Saturday 12-09-23 they flunked basic math and forgot whatever history they ever learned.
The biggest consumer worry is “range anxiety,” the fear of not being able to find charging stations when they need them – and that work as advertised – while on road trips. A bill that will be introduced soon in the Wisconsin Legislature could help to change that.
Reclaiming feminism to protect women and girls
Keenly aware that most Americans believe that the ultra wealthy ought to be paying their fair share of income taxes, President Joe Biden has been calling for a billionaire minimum tax since he took office in January of 2021.
Perhaps our alders deserve a modest raise, but let’s not fall in the trap that would put the city on the road to a full-time City Council.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, share the top political stories of 2023. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Regents so desperately wanted Vos to quit blocking budgeted UW pay raises and building projects that they handed Republicans an alarming and deeply symbolic triumph — emasculating UW’s efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion.
How about some real diversity instead of the DEI sham that demonstrably does not help Black students?
This fight still isn’t over, given there may be lawsuits challenging parts of the deal or the process itself, and there may be enough disappointed GOP senators to block passage once the 17-part deal comes back to the full Legislature for approval – most likely in January or February.
Today, I’m proud to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Respect for Marriage Act, the landmark bipartisan legislation I helped pass that enshrined marriage equality into law nationwide.
That’s what Kenneth Chesebro is telling Michigan prosecutors.
Being Black in America, each day is a challenge to not lose your mind and think that you are as W.E.B. DuBois talked about … a “problem.” Miseducation can only be reversed by re-education, which will never take place in America’s formal educational system.
Zach Brandon and his crew at the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce stopped by the office this week to give us a rundown on the business organization’s goals for the year ahead.
Ranked-choice is a disaster and should be rejected the second it is proposed.
This one is not about a football play. It’s about legislative Republicans discovering a novel way of getting around both a Democratic Governor and a liberal Supreme Court.
Dobbs is just the latest abortion restriction to harm Wisconsinites, especially low-income Wisconsinites.
We have all heard horror stories where a patient with insurance goes to the hospital in their network, and still, weeks later, they end up with bills of $20,000 or more.
Our GOP, legislating shrinking wages and small business growth through divide and conquer politics, has made us struggle to keep our heads above water. We have found the enemy, it is us, not some national policy issue.
The true irony in getting mail from Pocan regarding challenges in affording groceries is that he and his Democratic friends in Congress are the chief architects of this economic scourge of inflation we are experiencing.
Saturday morning’s vote by the majority of the UW Board of Regents to reject a grand compromise worked out by their own system president says everything we need to know about what’s wrong with the Democratic Party right now.
The regents of the Universities of Wisconsin get a do-over Wednesday. A make-up test, if you will. Saturday 12-09-23 they flunked basic math and forgot whatever history they ever learned.
The biggest consumer worry is “range anxiety,” the fear of not being able to find charging stations when they need them – and that work as advertised – while on road trips. A bill that will be introduced soon in the Wisconsin Legislature could help to change that.
Reclaiming feminism to protect women and girls
Keenly aware that most Americans believe that the ultra wealthy ought to be paying their fair share of income taxes, President Joe Biden has been calling for a billionaire minimum tax since he took office in January of 2021.
