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With Madison native Joe Gothard recently hired to become the city’s next school superintendent this summer, Police Chief Shon Barnes plans to pitch him on a reenvisioned SRO program that Barnes hopes would be a national model.
Immediately deport immigrants who commit crimes.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, was the speaker at the 2024 annual Kastenmeier Lecture at UW-Madison Law School.
Harkin, at age 84, is still doing very well. He’s been out of the Senate now for nearly 10 years, having stepped down after choosing not to run in the 2014 election. Interestingly, the former Democratic senator isn’t depressed by the stark change in Iowa politics in just the past decade or so.
Kennedy has proven he will do almost anything, including this quixotic leap of name-dropping, to be relevant.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine how and why the principles and priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties in Wisconsin have evolved over time. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The campaign by Vos haters is anti-democratic. Here’s why.
Vos had a favorability rating of just 17% in the latest Marquette Law School poll released earlier this year.
Doomsday predictions have been commonplace for more than 50 years now, but here’s the thing: Ever since they were first made, they have been dead wrong.
Almost by definition, “big science” involves government funding – lots of it – along with a concentration of technical talent and other resources. The question is whether privately backed companies working in sectors such as fusion and other nuclear research can make it on their own.
Several weeks ago, a thick, glossy publication announced the American Museum of History’s latest, a tribute to pop culture and how music, television, film, sports and theater shaped our country.
The president announced a more than $35 million investment to rebuild 6th Street in Milwaukee, as part of an expanded $3.3 billion effort to reconnect communities across the country.
Will the bogus controversy over the validity of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin ever go away?
They want the exclusive right to build all transmission lines. Guess who will be overcharged.
The last thing higher education — or American society and politics — needs is a further retreat from rural and small town America. But that’s exactly what’s happening.
Illinois State Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora, has introduced a bill that could allow sick, hopeless people the choice to end their lives, and their suffering.
Capacity considered as district seeks $252 million in April referendum.
What voters need to know.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson is missing the key way to grow the city.
Unless Americans are willing to accept the lost lives of many thousands to suicides and mass shootings in our schools, churches, theaters and shopping centers so that a minority of citizens can buy, sell and shoot lethal weapons, they need to replace the politicians who cower before the gun fanatics.
With Madison native Joe Gothard recently hired to become the city’s next school superintendent this summer, Police Chief Shon Barnes plans to pitch him on a reenvisioned SRO program that Barnes hopes would be a national model.
Immediately deport immigrants who commit crimes.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, was the speaker at the 2024 annual Kastenmeier Lecture at UW-Madison Law School.
Harkin, at age 84, is still doing very well. He’s been out of the Senate now for nearly 10 years, having stepped down after choosing not to run in the 2014 election. Interestingly, the former Democratic senator isn’t depressed by the stark change in Iowa politics in just the past decade or so.
Kennedy has proven he will do almost anything, including this quixotic leap of name-dropping, to be relevant.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine how and why the principles and priorities of the Republican and Democratic parties in Wisconsin have evolved over time. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
The campaign by Vos haters is anti-democratic. Here’s why.
Vos had a favorability rating of just 17% in the latest Marquette Law School poll released earlier this year.
Doomsday predictions have been commonplace for more than 50 years now, but here’s the thing: Ever since they were first made, they have been dead wrong.
Almost by definition, “big science” involves government funding – lots of it – along with a concentration of technical talent and other resources. The question is whether privately backed companies working in sectors such as fusion and other nuclear research can make it on their own.
Several weeks ago, a thick, glossy publication announced the American Museum of History’s latest, a tribute to pop culture and how music, television, film, sports and theater shaped our country.
The president announced a more than $35 million investment to rebuild 6th Street in Milwaukee, as part of an expanded $3.3 billion effort to reconnect communities across the country.
Will the bogus controversy over the validity of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin ever go away?
They want the exclusive right to build all transmission lines. Guess who will be overcharged.
The last thing higher education — or American society and politics — needs is a further retreat from rural and small town America. But that’s exactly what’s happening.
Illinois State Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora, has introduced a bill that could allow sick, hopeless people the choice to end their lives, and their suffering.
Capacity considered as district seeks $252 million in April referendum.
What voters need to know.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson is missing the key way to grow the city.
Unless Americans are willing to accept the lost lives of many thousands to suicides and mass shootings in our schools, churches, theaters and shopping centers so that a minority of citizens can buy, sell and shoot lethal weapons, they need to replace the politicians who cower before the gun fanatics.