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I understand Walker needs a paycheck and his work as president of Young America’s Foundation keeps the light bill paid. But it does not make him look good, given what it seems he is required to do and say in that role.
Marsy’s Law is impacting crime victims in a way I am certain the more than 1.1 million Wisconsin residents who voted yes to ratify Marsy’s Law three years ago would be very pleased with.
By spurning Medicaid expansion, Wisconsin has left already struggling rural hospitals to shoulder the added costs because they cannot legally turn away patients, insured or not.
By not counting the value of copay assistance towards patient out-of-pocket costs, health plans are forcing patients into challenging financial and life-threatening predicaments where we cannot afford medically necessary treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the results of Wisconsin’s spring general election and what they say about the state’s political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Wikler, a 42-year-old Madison West High and Harvard graduate, is an ascending superstar in national Democratic politics, having led the Wisconsin party for nearly three years. The day after the bitterly contested court race, we talked about the campaign from the inside.
The election in Wisconsin this week is a vivid reminder that what happens at the local and state level is often more important than what takes place at the federal level.
Conservatives need to play to their strengths, relying on massive majorities in the Wisconsin legislature to codify priorities by state constitutional amendment.
Daniel Kelly, the losing candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, gave a remarkably bitter concession speech Tuesday night that could serve as an epitaph for misogynist minority rule in Wisconsin.
After it became clear Tuesday night that Janet Protasiewicz would defeat him by a wide margin, he had nothing but bad things to say about his opponent.
The staggering amount of record-breaking money in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race shows the crying need for fundamental campaign finance reform.
Dan Kelly was always swimming upstream. A commanding two-thirds of Wisconsin voters supported Roe v Wade, overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs v Jackson Health decision.
The legislature’s budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance continues to do our work on the next state budget. We recently invited four state agencies to brief our committee and started a series of four public hearings around the state.
Children should have every opportunity to learn and grow in a safe space, especially during the first three years of their life.
$144 million settlement what America needs to face.
Being poor isn’t a choice and isn’t a character flaw. It’s the natural byproduct of a society that turns a blind eye to how the most vulnerable among us are mercilessly exploited.
After nearly a decade of dominance that culminated in a Republican winning Wisconsin in a presidential race for the first time in 32 years in 2016, conservatives have won just four of 14 statewide races (and one was unopposed). How did the right go so wrong?
The trouncing that Daniel Kelly received at the hands of Justice-Elect Janet Protaseiwicz was a triumph for progressive forces in Wisconsin and a final repudiation of Scott Walker’s counter-revolution.
On top of the very beatable Tony Evers only five months ago, Wisconsin Republicans are on the schneid.
Beyond the election results, who were the other people, groups and trends that won or lost?
I understand Walker needs a paycheck and his work as president of Young America’s Foundation keeps the light bill paid. But it does not make him look good, given what it seems he is required to do and say in that role.
Marsy’s Law is impacting crime victims in a way I am certain the more than 1.1 million Wisconsin residents who voted yes to ratify Marsy’s Law three years ago would be very pleased with.
By spurning Medicaid expansion, Wisconsin has left already struggling rural hospitals to shoulder the added costs because they cannot legally turn away patients, insured or not.
By not counting the value of copay assistance towards patient out-of-pocket costs, health plans are forcing patients into challenging financial and life-threatening predicaments where we cannot afford medically necessary treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the results of Wisconsin’s spring general election and what they say about the state’s political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Wikler, a 42-year-old Madison West High and Harvard graduate, is an ascending superstar in national Democratic politics, having led the Wisconsin party for nearly three years. The day after the bitterly contested court race, we talked about the campaign from the inside.
The election in Wisconsin this week is a vivid reminder that what happens at the local and state level is often more important than what takes place at the federal level.
Conservatives need to play to their strengths, relying on massive majorities in the Wisconsin legislature to codify priorities by state constitutional amendment.
Daniel Kelly, the losing candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, gave a remarkably bitter concession speech Tuesday night that could serve as an epitaph for misogynist minority rule in Wisconsin.
After it became clear Tuesday night that Janet Protasiewicz would defeat him by a wide margin, he had nothing but bad things to say about his opponent.
The staggering amount of record-breaking money in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court race shows the crying need for fundamental campaign finance reform.
Dan Kelly was always swimming upstream. A commanding two-thirds of Wisconsin voters supported Roe v Wade, overturned last year by the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs v Jackson Health decision.
The legislature’s budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance continues to do our work on the next state budget. We recently invited four state agencies to brief our committee and started a series of four public hearings around the state.
Children should have every opportunity to learn and grow in a safe space, especially during the first three years of their life.
$144 million settlement what America needs to face.
Being poor isn’t a choice and isn’t a character flaw. It’s the natural byproduct of a society that turns a blind eye to how the most vulnerable among us are mercilessly exploited.
After nearly a decade of dominance that culminated in a Republican winning Wisconsin in a presidential race for the first time in 32 years in 2016, conservatives have won just four of 14 statewide races (and one was unopposed). How did the right go so wrong?
The trouncing that Daniel Kelly received at the hands of Justice-Elect Janet Protaseiwicz was a triumph for progressive forces in Wisconsin and a final repudiation of Scott Walker’s counter-revolution.
On top of the very beatable Tony Evers only five months ago, Wisconsin Republicans are on the schneid.
Beyond the election results, who were the other people, groups and trends that won or lost?
