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Rejecting this referendum is not a rejection of public schools; it is a call for long-needed accountability. We owe it to taxpayers. We owe it to employers. We owe it to parents. But most of all, we owe it to our students.
We’re used to seeing politicians with a “D” for Democrat or an “R” for Republican after their name. I wonder if that Republican “R” doesn’t also stand for Russia these days, because Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are looking more and more like Vladimir Putin’s patsies.
How did we get to this point where a professional editorial board at the Wisconsin State Journal allowed for the F-bomb to be published by using the syndicated work of editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette?
Madison and Milwaukee were guaranteed 10% increases, other municipalities 20%
New legislative electoral maps are heavily gerrymandered to the benefit of Democrats, but where there is change, there is opportunity.
WEDC is building on this momentum with the launch of Look Forward Wisconsin, which combines online and TV advertising with person-to-person follow-up to attract potential new residents.
Assembly Bill 466, the Wisconsin Data Privacy Act, was introduced to empower you, the consumer, and give back control over your personal data.
The Department of Labor, trying for the fourth time in 13 years, is pushing a regulation that will result in a massive loss of financial guidance for millions of Americans, particularly those who need this advice the most
Positions of county treasurer, clerk and register of deeds should be eliminated, not given raises.
The Civilian Police Oversight Board was created in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It never made any sense because the Madison Police Department has long been among the most progressive anywhere and because there’s always been plenty of civilian oversight over it.
You would think that in a democracy majorities rule. You would be wrong. A relatively small band of right-wing Republicans in the House of Representatives is defying a big majority in both houses of Congress.
The same jurists who last week stalled Trump’s federal criminal trial on charges related to those efforts to overturn the election results on Monday reinterpreted the 14th Amendment in a way that assures that the former president will have no trouble getting on the ballot even in states where courts and election officials have determined that he disqualified himself with his insurrectionist agitation around Jan. 6, 2021.
Either no person is above the law, or the entire premise of our legal system is a myth. A battle is underway for the very foundations, the connecting fabric of our democracy.
The intractable partisan slant of most of our news media is as responsible for MAGA nation as anything. The point is, the mainstream media covered for Democrats, rather than objectively serving their readers.
The auto industry is not safe under Biden, our nation is not safe under Biden, and the world is not safe under Biden.
It telegraphs the sort of desperation we see when politicians are trying to bury a vexing narrative — in this case, the one that says Hovde is more Tahoe than Tomah.
Hovde’s polar plunge got The Capital Times to spend its Sunday morning op ed column to confirm the Republican’s point: he’s a hometown Wisconsin boy who made good.
Before his earthquake announcement, McConnell stepped up. At a White House meeting with President Biden, Democratic congressional leaders and GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, McConnell warned Speaker Johnson about the folly of a government shutdown and the urgent necessity of the GOP-led House to pass vital military aid for Ukraine.
Repealing Act 10, whether by legislative action or the unhinged actions of an activist Supreme Court, would be absolutely devastating to the state of Wisconsin.
For the 18th straight year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is recognizing outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government through its Openness in Government awards, or Opees.
Rejecting this referendum is not a rejection of public schools; it is a call for long-needed accountability. We owe it to taxpayers. We owe it to employers. We owe it to parents. But most of all, we owe it to our students.
We’re used to seeing politicians with a “D” for Democrat or an “R” for Republican after their name. I wonder if that Republican “R” doesn’t also stand for Russia these days, because Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are looking more and more like Vladimir Putin’s patsies.
How did we get to this point where a professional editorial board at the Wisconsin State Journal allowed for the F-bomb to be published by using the syndicated work of editorial cartoonist Andy Marlette?
Madison and Milwaukee were guaranteed 10% increases, other municipalities 20%
New legislative electoral maps are heavily gerrymandered to the benefit of Democrats, but where there is change, there is opportunity.
WEDC is building on this momentum with the launch of Look Forward Wisconsin, which combines online and TV advertising with person-to-person follow-up to attract potential new residents.
Assembly Bill 466, the Wisconsin Data Privacy Act, was introduced to empower you, the consumer, and give back control over your personal data.
The Department of Labor, trying for the fourth time in 13 years, is pushing a regulation that will result in a massive loss of financial guidance for millions of Americans, particularly those who need this advice the most
Positions of county treasurer, clerk and register of deeds should be eliminated, not given raises.
The Civilian Police Oversight Board was created in 2020 following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It never made any sense because the Madison Police Department has long been among the most progressive anywhere and because there’s always been plenty of civilian oversight over it.
You would think that in a democracy majorities rule. You would be wrong. A relatively small band of right-wing Republicans in the House of Representatives is defying a big majority in both houses of Congress.
The same jurists who last week stalled Trump’s federal criminal trial on charges related to those efforts to overturn the election results on Monday reinterpreted the 14th Amendment in a way that assures that the former president will have no trouble getting on the ballot even in states where courts and election officials have determined that he disqualified himself with his insurrectionist agitation around Jan. 6, 2021.
Either no person is above the law, or the entire premise of our legal system is a myth. A battle is underway for the very foundations, the connecting fabric of our democracy.
The intractable partisan slant of most of our news media is as responsible for MAGA nation as anything. The point is, the mainstream media covered for Democrats, rather than objectively serving their readers.
The auto industry is not safe under Biden, our nation is not safe under Biden, and the world is not safe under Biden.
It telegraphs the sort of desperation we see when politicians are trying to bury a vexing narrative — in this case, the one that says Hovde is more Tahoe than Tomah.
Hovde’s polar plunge got The Capital Times to spend its Sunday morning op ed column to confirm the Republican’s point: he’s a hometown Wisconsin boy who made good.
Before his earthquake announcement, McConnell stepped up. At a White House meeting with President Biden, Democratic congressional leaders and GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, McConnell warned Speaker Johnson about the folly of a government shutdown and the urgent necessity of the GOP-led House to pass vital military aid for Ukraine.
Repealing Act 10, whether by legislative action or the unhinged actions of an activist Supreme Court, would be absolutely devastating to the state of Wisconsin.
For the 18th straight year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is recognizing outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government through its Openness in Government awards, or Opees.