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The over $1 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funds coming to Wisconsin presents the historic opportunity to finally connect every corner of the state, including communities tucked into the most rural, hardest-to-reach regions.
Parents are being forced to choose between low-rated care or no care at all.
McKay Coppins tells Romney’s story in a book just out, Mitt Romney, a Reckoning.
Wisconsin U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany will never be accused of actually thinking for themselves.
2022 Nobel Prize winner in Physics: Climate change orthodoxy is dangerous corruption of science.
Any discussion must address state restrictions on how municipalities police the rental industry.
The Illinois Grocery Initiative is a model for other states to look at as it is the first of its kind. The $20 million initiative will be used to support existing grocers and encourage new grocery stores to open.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes on the fall legislative session. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Here are the reasons the answer is yes.
Wisconsin is Ground Zero for attacks on democracy, which generated a tsunami of news from the Capitol this week.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated this week that people who filed for unemployment insurance during the pandemic stole somewhere between $100 billion and $135 billion in benefits — just a portion of the estimated fraud across all federal pandemic programs.
Whether agricultural and food products move by land or water, WisDOT is making the kinds of improvements to our transportation infrastructure that will help agriculture and all of Wisconsin’s freight-dependent industries be more competitive, both in the state and in markets all around the world.
This week marked 22 years since radical Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, killing 2,977 innocent people. We must never forget the events of that day, who carried them out and why.
Wisconsin is either second best, third from the bottom – or someplace in between. I’m betting on the middle. No matter where the reality falls, there’s room for improvement.
The Biden administration forcing nursing homes to meet a one-size-fits-all requirement without enough available workers in the labor market is an unrealistic expectation.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and illegally banned citizens from carrying — concealed or not — all firearms in her state. The good progressive based her diktat on the science of public health.
On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced that the Legislature would finally get on board with Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to adopt Iowa’s method of drawing state legislative boundaries, but the Governor called the idea “bogus.”
When it comes to Vos, the devil is always in the details.
Vos fears that the Protasiewicz court will reverse engineer the map of Wisconsin to tilt the field toward Democrats. You can call Vos opportunistic. You can call him hypocritical, but you can also call him a realist.
Pardon my cynical side when I openly admit I do not trust the abrupt, at the last minute, major policy change as his party is pressed to the wall.
The over $1 billion in Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment funds coming to Wisconsin presents the historic opportunity to finally connect every corner of the state, including communities tucked into the most rural, hardest-to-reach regions.
Parents are being forced to choose between low-rated care or no care at all.
McKay Coppins tells Romney’s story in a book just out, Mitt Romney, a Reckoning.
Wisconsin U.S. Reps. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany will never be accused of actually thinking for themselves.
2022 Nobel Prize winner in Physics: Climate change orthodoxy is dangerous corruption of science.
Any discussion must address state restrictions on how municipalities police the rental industry.
The Illinois Grocery Initiative is a model for other states to look at as it is the first of its kind. The $20 million initiative will be used to support existing grocers and encourage new grocery stores to open.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the impact of Gov. Tony Evers’ budget vetoes on the fall legislative session. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Here are the reasons the answer is yes.
Wisconsin is Ground Zero for attacks on democracy, which generated a tsunami of news from the Capitol this week.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated this week that people who filed for unemployment insurance during the pandemic stole somewhere between $100 billion and $135 billion in benefits — just a portion of the estimated fraud across all federal pandemic programs.
Whether agricultural and food products move by land or water, WisDOT is making the kinds of improvements to our transportation infrastructure that will help agriculture and all of Wisconsin’s freight-dependent industries be more competitive, both in the state and in markets all around the world.
This week marked 22 years since radical Islamic terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, killing 2,977 innocent people. We must never forget the events of that day, who carried them out and why.
Wisconsin is either second best, third from the bottom – or someplace in between. I’m betting on the middle. No matter where the reality falls, there’s room for improvement.
The Biden administration forcing nursing homes to meet a one-size-fits-all requirement without enough available workers in the labor market is an unrealistic expectation.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unilaterally, unconstitutionally, and illegally banned citizens from carrying — concealed or not — all firearms in her state. The good progressive based her diktat on the science of public health.
On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced that the Legislature would finally get on board with Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to adopt Iowa’s method of drawing state legislative boundaries, but the Governor called the idea “bogus.”
When it comes to Vos, the devil is always in the details.
Vos fears that the Protasiewicz court will reverse engineer the map of Wisconsin to tilt the field toward Democrats. You can call Vos opportunistic. You can call him hypocritical, but you can also call him a realist.
Pardon my cynical side when I openly admit I do not trust the abrupt, at the last minute, major policy change as his party is pressed to the wall.
