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The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.

Deal for Milwaukee County far better than for city. Why? Blame police union.

Republican legislators are attempting to force local government leaders to do the things that they should already be doing by incentivizing them with more money to spend. This is a government solution, for government, by government.

Evers is one of the latest to propose this new public benefit.

While outward forces of racial hatred against people of color are no longer as common as they were during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, what has taken the place of physical violence is annihilation via public policy.

Time for red flag laws, universal background checks following 4th officer shot to death this year.

A group of grassroots activists, led by Congressman Tom Tiffany, have bucked statewide trends and have had remarkable victories across the northern region of the state.

The next time we vote we must mark our ballot not based on the “R” or “D” behind the candidates name but rather does that individual candidate pledge to support the issues Wisconsinites care about.

The police department is statutorily required to provide requested records ‘as soon as practicable and without delay.’ While the law is imprecise, a 14-month wait is, a 14-month wait is, however you slice it, delay.

It’s unfair to lump all banks into the same basket, Robert Gorsuch — who is the longest serving bank CEO in the Madison area — points out.

Does the USA miss the mysticism of monarchy?

The nation is at an economic and moral tipping point. GOP brinkmanship must end.

New regulations elsewhere prompt trio of Wisconsin bills.

Bipartisan elections bills are first step to guarantee that no matter what part of the state you vote in, the treatment, access and ability to participate fairly in elections, will be the same.

Gov. Tony Evers received more votes than any candidate in state history, but his budget proposals have been wholly rejected by Republican legislators who exhibit their disdain for democracy.

Is public broadcasting government funded?

Public schools must refocus their priorities on the fundamentals of learning and drop the continual barrage of social engineering.

The expectation is that civility will operate in political areas between all political parties, but the American people are not seeing that in recent years.

I support the Second Amendment. All of it. All 27 words. Gun fetishists do not. They read it selectively.

It’s too early to panic over prospects for a second Trump presidency. But it’s not too early to get real nervous.

The Kennedy-era FCC chair who inspired reformers to demand media that served the public interest has died at age 97.

Deal for Milwaukee County far better than for city. Why? Blame police union.

Republican legislators are attempting to force local government leaders to do the things that they should already be doing by incentivizing them with more money to spend. This is a government solution, for government, by government.

Evers is one of the latest to propose this new public benefit.

While outward forces of racial hatred against people of color are no longer as common as they were during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras, what has taken the place of physical violence is annihilation via public policy.

Time for red flag laws, universal background checks following 4th officer shot to death this year.

A group of grassroots activists, led by Congressman Tom Tiffany, have bucked statewide trends and have had remarkable victories across the northern region of the state.

The next time we vote we must mark our ballot not based on the “R” or “D” behind the candidates name but rather does that individual candidate pledge to support the issues Wisconsinites care about.

The police department is statutorily required to provide requested records ‘as soon as practicable and without delay.’ While the law is imprecise, a 14-month wait is, a 14-month wait is, however you slice it, delay.

It’s unfair to lump all banks into the same basket, Robert Gorsuch — who is the longest serving bank CEO in the Madison area — points out.

Does the USA miss the mysticism of monarchy?

The nation is at an economic and moral tipping point. GOP brinkmanship must end.

New regulations elsewhere prompt trio of Wisconsin bills.

Bipartisan elections bills are first step to guarantee that no matter what part of the state you vote in, the treatment, access and ability to participate fairly in elections, will be the same.

Gov. Tony Evers received more votes than any candidate in state history, but his budget proposals have been wholly rejected by Republican legislators who exhibit their disdain for democracy.

Is public broadcasting government funded?

Public schools must refocus their priorities on the fundamentals of learning and drop the continual barrage of social engineering.

The expectation is that civility will operate in political areas between all political parties, but the American people are not seeing that in recent years.

I support the Second Amendment. All of it. All 27 words. Gun fetishists do not. They read it selectively.

It’s too early to panic over prospects for a second Trump presidency. But it’s not too early to get real nervous.