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Without leave laws, researchers say much of wage gap could have been eliminated by 2017.

The issue for 2023 is that costs are increasing by 10-40% in some segments and economic uncertainty may impact consumer behaviors and preferences.

Many people in Wisconsin are under the impression that the disastrous probe into the state’s 2020 presidential election conducted by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is over, as are its costs to taxpayers. They’re wrong.

GOP lawmakers’ arguments for eliminating Wisconsin’s progressive income tax don’t add up.

Brian Schimming went on talk radio to defend ‘peaceful protests’ at January 6 Capitol riot.

It’s not getting better. Don’t kid yourself. It’s getting worse. And it’s a stain on our democracy.

The future of a functioning democracy in our state is on the ballot in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

The Biden bureaucracy aims its ESG arsenal at corporate America.

The Vietnam War ended officially on Jan. 27, 1973, with signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

Get ready for six months of rhetoric and infighting over how to spend Wisconsin’s record $7.1 billion surplus.

A lot of the coming budget debate is going to revolve around what we want Wisconsin to look like.

The benefits of school choice have never been clearer.

Our Legislature has evolved into an institution where grandstanding is the norm, bloated staffs keep their bosses in the news, and civility is no longer in vogue.

A recent study shows that 2022 was the first year on record that global low-carbon investments matched fossil fuel funding.

There is a serious use-of-force problem built into policing in this country. Over 1,000 Americans per year lose their lives in encounters with police.

A new federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ rule on pistols with stabilizing braces faces a Second Amendment lawsuit filed on behalf of disabled veterans.

As a journalist and a witness of Gen Z’s decaying mental state, I understand how pertinent it is that the media considers how the news today often numbs instead of stirs people to sustainable action.

The discourse that extends from honest disagreement is the lifeblood of a robust democracy. But that discourse is thwarted when innuendo, misinformation and disinformation convince Americans that the people we differ with on issues are inherently untrustworthy, evil or dangerous.

Three of our neighbors, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, charge a single rate to all earners, and in each place it’s a lower rate than Wisconsin’s top two brackets.

Milwaukee County could pass its own ban. Evers calls Republican actions ‘ridiculous.’

Without leave laws, researchers say much of wage gap could have been eliminated by 2017.

The issue for 2023 is that costs are increasing by 10-40% in some segments and economic uncertainty may impact consumer behaviors and preferences.

Many people in Wisconsin are under the impression that the disastrous probe into the state’s 2020 presidential election conducted by former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman is over, as are its costs to taxpayers. They’re wrong.

GOP lawmakers’ arguments for eliminating Wisconsin’s progressive income tax don’t add up.

Brian Schimming went on talk radio to defend ‘peaceful protests’ at January 6 Capitol riot.

It’s not getting better. Don’t kid yourself. It’s getting worse. And it’s a stain on our democracy.

The future of a functioning democracy in our state is on the ballot in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

The Biden bureaucracy aims its ESG arsenal at corporate America.

The Vietnam War ended officially on Jan. 27, 1973, with signing of the Paris Peace Accords.

Get ready for six months of rhetoric and infighting over how to spend Wisconsin’s record $7.1 billion surplus.

A lot of the coming budget debate is going to revolve around what we want Wisconsin to look like.

The benefits of school choice have never been clearer.

Our Legislature has evolved into an institution where grandstanding is the norm, bloated staffs keep their bosses in the news, and civility is no longer in vogue.

A recent study shows that 2022 was the first year on record that global low-carbon investments matched fossil fuel funding.

There is a serious use-of-force problem built into policing in this country. Over 1,000 Americans per year lose their lives in encounters with police.

A new federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ rule on pistols with stabilizing braces faces a Second Amendment lawsuit filed on behalf of disabled veterans.

As a journalist and a witness of Gen Z’s decaying mental state, I understand how pertinent it is that the media considers how the news today often numbs instead of stirs people to sustainable action.

The discourse that extends from honest disagreement is the lifeblood of a robust democracy. But that discourse is thwarted when innuendo, misinformation and disinformation convince Americans that the people we differ with on issues are inherently untrustworthy, evil or dangerous.

Three of our neighbors, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, charge a single rate to all earners, and in each place it’s a lower rate than Wisconsin’s top two brackets.

Milwaukee County could pass its own ban. Evers calls Republican actions ‘ridiculous.’