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The Evers administration wrongly issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business grants based on changed eligibility requirements, according to the latest state audit of the billions of dollars in federal COVID relief Evers has spent at his discretion.
Beyond tax cuts and funding for primary and secondary schools, there are a host of other intelligent priorities for spending. Here are several that I deem to be strategic and hope politicos agree.
No one spins like Trump’s hard-core base.
But we now expect such behavior from Donald Trump.
State Assembly Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Appleton) has had enough of Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman’s bigoted comments.
Through gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans have engineered consent. They keep power even when most voters in the state do not wish for them to have it.
But the effects of the decrease wound up being muted.
The child tax credit may be a good idea, but Democrats need to rethink the ideology of entitlement
The glitzy and choreographed event welcoming the new Badgers football coach felt like the most significant demarcation point since Barry Alvarez came to town 32 years ago.
Historical Society director Christian Overland is planning an “innovation experience area” in a new Wisconsin History Center on Madison’s Capitol Square.
I am appreciative of your support and encourage all of you to continue to fight for that in which you believe.
Though Darling began her career with great promise, she ended it as a predictable partisan who did the bidding of her caucus — no matter how absurd its demands became.
With a suspect economic forecast and the buying power of Wisconsinites being eaten away by inflation, it would be unconscionable for our elected leaders to do anything other than to return the surplus to the people who paid it with a sheepish, “ope.”
Municipalities are increasingly turning to residents to make up for state-imposed limits on property tax levies
The next Reagan? Not anyone we can see on the horizon.
Should an attorney have to be a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin to practice law in the Badger State? That’s the driving question behind a First Amendment lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Analytics are used in sports, banking, social media, entertainment, health care, education, business and government. Why not include analytics as a tool for judges in their decision making and, just as important, as a way for others to advocate for fairness in sentencing decisions?
In a video of the protest in Shanghai, verified by the Associated Press, chants against Xi, the most powerful leader since at least the 1980s, can be heard without equivocation. “Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!”
What is Wisconsin waiting for?
Trump’s hatred of cities might help explain how metro area residents voted in November.
The Evers administration wrongly issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business grants based on changed eligibility requirements, according to the latest state audit of the billions of dollars in federal COVID relief Evers has spent at his discretion.
Beyond tax cuts and funding for primary and secondary schools, there are a host of other intelligent priorities for spending. Here are several that I deem to be strategic and hope politicos agree.
No one spins like Trump’s hard-core base.
But we now expect such behavior from Donald Trump.
State Assembly Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Appleton) has had enough of Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman’s bigoted comments.
Through gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans have engineered consent. They keep power even when most voters in the state do not wish for them to have it.
But the effects of the decrease wound up being muted.
The child tax credit may be a good idea, but Democrats need to rethink the ideology of entitlement
The glitzy and choreographed event welcoming the new Badgers football coach felt like the most significant demarcation point since Barry Alvarez came to town 32 years ago.
Historical Society director Christian Overland is planning an “innovation experience area” in a new Wisconsin History Center on Madison’s Capitol Square.
I am appreciative of your support and encourage all of you to continue to fight for that in which you believe.
Though Darling began her career with great promise, she ended it as a predictable partisan who did the bidding of her caucus — no matter how absurd its demands became.
With a suspect economic forecast and the buying power of Wisconsinites being eaten away by inflation, it would be unconscionable for our elected leaders to do anything other than to return the surplus to the people who paid it with a sheepish, “ope.”
Municipalities are increasingly turning to residents to make up for state-imposed limits on property tax levies
The next Reagan? Not anyone we can see on the horizon.
Should an attorney have to be a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin to practice law in the Badger State? That’s the driving question behind a First Amendment lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Analytics are used in sports, banking, social media, entertainment, health care, education, business and government. Why not include analytics as a tool for judges in their decision making and, just as important, as a way for others to advocate for fairness in sentencing decisions?
In a video of the protest in Shanghai, verified by the Associated Press, chants against Xi, the most powerful leader since at least the 1980s, can be heard without equivocation. “Xi Jinping! Step down! CCP! Step down!”
What is Wisconsin waiting for?
Trump’s hatred of cities might help explain how metro area residents voted in November.
