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State Rep. Mark Born, co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, says Republicans will be checking Gov. Tony. Evers far left inclinations while delivering major tax relief and investments in critical initiatives in the next budget.
We rely heavily on the men and women who brave climate extremes and keep American rail moving every day of the year. While paid sick leave was missed in this contract, I do hope Congress reviews.
At the La Follette School, we embrace our mission to serve as a convener and to identify policy solutions by finding common ground.
Recruitment, retention issues could be eased by showing more appreciation.
witter’s former leadership did indeed take orders from Joe Biden’s campaign in taking extraordinary steps to bury The New York Post’s bombshell report on the international influence-peddling scheme that Biden ran with his son serving as a sort of bag man. That sort of collusion would have been scandalous enough, but the FBI’s involvement in suppressing the story makes this ugly incident the single most significant and wide-ranging violation of First Amendment rights in American history.
When it comes to immigrant labor in Wisconsin and much of the nation, there’s the world of political babble, and then there’s reality on the ground.
As the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court heats up, Milwaukee County Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz last week showed just what a partisan justice she would be if elected — contrary to her claims.
It is dawning on the GOP that it can’t ignore the liberal enclave.
Time for the conservative movement to get serious and stop with the crazy.
Equity, whether in women’s pay or laws on marriage equality, is a relatively new thing. We have to fight for every win and leave everything on the field, to ensure that we keep moving the ball forward in the right for all to be equally valued and respected.
Policymakers in Wisconsin must think about what lies ahead on the climate calendar. More people will likely be tempted to move here or return home as conditions change. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. It shouldn’t be an unplanned thing.
Why is Wisconsin dilly dallying? Higher education is our future. Use the surplus to fund it.
Agency spending would increase by $8.2 billion over next two years.
The Evers administration plans to ask state environmental officials again for permission to develop groundwater standards.
At a time when Tammy Baldwin was uniting Democrats and Republicans in support of marriage equality, he voted “no.”
Elections are about the future, not about the past. Proven problem-solvers won big in the November elections. Candidates who were perceived as too focused on the last election did not. There is a lesson there for the future.
In the past several years in this country we have witnessed an alarming rise in hateful words turn into violent actions. This is not a novel occurrence as some speculate. America has been here before.
An investigation into Wisconsin’s 25-year-old fetal protection statute
The many benefits of spending your shopping dollars at locally owned businesses are many, not the least of which is that each dollar you spend at an independent business returns three times more money to the local economy than one spent at a chain owned by some far-off corporation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at the upcoming spring 2023 Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
State Rep. Mark Born, co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, says Republicans will be checking Gov. Tony. Evers far left inclinations while delivering major tax relief and investments in critical initiatives in the next budget.
We rely heavily on the men and women who brave climate extremes and keep American rail moving every day of the year. While paid sick leave was missed in this contract, I do hope Congress reviews.
At the La Follette School, we embrace our mission to serve as a convener and to identify policy solutions by finding common ground.
Recruitment, retention issues could be eased by showing more appreciation.
witter’s former leadership did indeed take orders from Joe Biden’s campaign in taking extraordinary steps to bury The New York Post’s bombshell report on the international influence-peddling scheme that Biden ran with his son serving as a sort of bag man. That sort of collusion would have been scandalous enough, but the FBI’s involvement in suppressing the story makes this ugly incident the single most significant and wide-ranging violation of First Amendment rights in American history.
When it comes to immigrant labor in Wisconsin and much of the nation, there’s the world of political babble, and then there’s reality on the ground.
As the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court heats up, Milwaukee County Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz last week showed just what a partisan justice she would be if elected — contrary to her claims.
It is dawning on the GOP that it can’t ignore the liberal enclave.
Time for the conservative movement to get serious and stop with the crazy.
Equity, whether in women’s pay or laws on marriage equality, is a relatively new thing. We have to fight for every win and leave everything on the field, to ensure that we keep moving the ball forward in the right for all to be equally valued and respected.
Policymakers in Wisconsin must think about what lies ahead on the climate calendar. More people will likely be tempted to move here or return home as conditions change. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. It shouldn’t be an unplanned thing.
Why is Wisconsin dilly dallying? Higher education is our future. Use the surplus to fund it.
Agency spending would increase by $8.2 billion over next two years.
The Evers administration plans to ask state environmental officials again for permission to develop groundwater standards.
At a time when Tammy Baldwin was uniting Democrats and Republicans in support of marriage equality, he voted “no.”
Elections are about the future, not about the past. Proven problem-solvers won big in the November elections. Candidates who were perceived as too focused on the last election did not. There is a lesson there for the future.
In the past several years in this country we have witnessed an alarming rise in hateful words turn into violent actions. This is not a novel occurrence as some speculate. America has been here before.
An investigation into Wisconsin’s 25-year-old fetal protection statute
The many benefits of spending your shopping dollars at locally owned businesses are many, not the least of which is that each dollar you spend at an independent business returns three times more money to the local economy than one spent at a chain owned by some far-off corporation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at the upcoming spring 2023 Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.