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Just scroll through your social media feed, and you’ll likely come across something created by AI where you can’t tell if it’s real or fake.
The decline of local journalism has real consequences. Studies show that towns without newspapers experience lower voter turnout, fewer contested elections, and increased government inefficiency. When watchdogs in the local newsroom disappear, so does accountability.
From liberal MSNBC to conservative FOX News and dozens of journalism organizations in-between, news gatherers last week refused an administration demand to only report information that is Pentagon-approved.
Rating services like Ad Fontes and Ground News offer public guidance, but critics say they mislabel ethical reporting as partisan bias and open the door to reputational harm.
Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and a chorus of Senate Republicans — all amplified by the “fair and balanced” Fox News network — claimed that the Democrats shut down the government “to give free health care to illegal aliens.”
The key to Baldwin’s victory was not, as the New York Times writers now suggest, centrist caution.
A grant-funded initiative, such as Mobile Markets in urban and rural areas, would help lower grocery bills, aligning with Trump’s promise to reduce grocery costs.
Four of the 15 largest Wisconsin-based financial institutions take in more than $1 million every month in overdraft and NSF consumer fees.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term has already produced a case with explosive implications, including here in Wisconsin, and it could be one of the most consequential free speech cases in years.
Since 2001, former Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still has been innovating and creating new programs and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship, investment, and growth across Wisconsin. He is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.
As a cooperative where members stand “at the top of the leadership chart,” GHC’s Board should respect membership’s vote by voluntarily recognizing our union, effective immediately.
We cling to this silver lining: deep down, the anti-Vos/Mike Gableman crowd realizes the abortive insurrection was a stain on the Constitution. That explains — nine months into the Restoration — their pathetic search for scapegoats, however absurd.
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’
Food drives do not end hunger. Effective public policy does.
Although the polarization endemic to Washington, D.C. is felt here as well, there are stronger and more real currents in Madison that should provide some hope.
Trump and congressional Republicans must listen to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin: negotiate to extend the expiring ACA tax credits, stop GOP punitive actions and end the shutdown.
Mike Johnson’s got a lot of chutzpah. For a guy who meekly rolls over and lets Trump trample on the prerogatives of his branch of government, for a guy who says nothing or openly supports Trump as he tramples on the Constitution over and over again — for THAT guy to say that it was the No Kings protesters who hate America is just ludicrous.
No Kings protester’s ‘Is He Dead Yet?’ shirt is a sign of perilous times.
In Milwaukee, the “No Kings” protest was held at Cathedral Square Park, followed by a march through downtown. See dozens of photos from the scene.
What we are witnessing should not only raise questions about due process and international law, but also about intent and the true nature of this military escalation.
Just scroll through your social media feed, and you’ll likely come across something created by AI where you can’t tell if it’s real or fake.
The decline of local journalism has real consequences. Studies show that towns without newspapers experience lower voter turnout, fewer contested elections, and increased government inefficiency. When watchdogs in the local newsroom disappear, so does accountability.
From liberal MSNBC to conservative FOX News and dozens of journalism organizations in-between, news gatherers last week refused an administration demand to only report information that is Pentagon-approved.
Rating services like Ad Fontes and Ground News offer public guidance, but critics say they mislabel ethical reporting as partisan bias and open the door to reputational harm.
Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and a chorus of Senate Republicans — all amplified by the “fair and balanced” Fox News network — claimed that the Democrats shut down the government “to give free health care to illegal aliens.”
The key to Baldwin’s victory was not, as the New York Times writers now suggest, centrist caution.
A grant-funded initiative, such as Mobile Markets in urban and rural areas, would help lower grocery bills, aligning with Trump’s promise to reduce grocery costs.
Four of the 15 largest Wisconsin-based financial institutions take in more than $1 million every month in overdraft and NSF consumer fees.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term has already produced a case with explosive implications, including here in Wisconsin, and it could be one of the most consequential free speech cases in years.
Since 2001, former Wisconsin Technology Council President Tom Still has been innovating and creating new programs and initiatives to foster entrepreneurship, investment, and growth across Wisconsin. He is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.
As a cooperative where members stand “at the top of the leadership chart,” GHC’s Board should respect membership’s vote by voluntarily recognizing our union, effective immediately.
We cling to this silver lining: deep down, the anti-Vos/Mike Gableman crowd realizes the abortive insurrection was a stain on the Constitution. That explains — nine months into the Restoration — their pathetic search for scapegoats, however absurd.
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’
Food drives do not end hunger. Effective public policy does.
Although the polarization endemic to Washington, D.C. is felt here as well, there are stronger and more real currents in Madison that should provide some hope.
Trump and congressional Republicans must listen to Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin: negotiate to extend the expiring ACA tax credits, stop GOP punitive actions and end the shutdown.
Mike Johnson’s got a lot of chutzpah. For a guy who meekly rolls over and lets Trump trample on the prerogatives of his branch of government, for a guy who says nothing or openly supports Trump as he tramples on the Constitution over and over again — for THAT guy to say that it was the No Kings protesters who hate America is just ludicrous.
No Kings protester’s ‘Is He Dead Yet?’ shirt is a sign of perilous times.
In Milwaukee, the “No Kings” protest was held at Cathedral Square Park, followed by a march through downtown. See dozens of photos from the scene.
What we are witnessing should not only raise questions about due process and international law, but also about intent and the true nature of this military escalation.