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Innovative, unconventional — and unexplainably made to operate on 60% of what other public schools get.

We must defund campus liberals. When I was a college student, there was a clear liberal bias, but you could still engage in thoughtful debate.

It’s coal and other fossil fuels’ turn to be replaced. But history shows us it won’t happen without a lot of kicking and screaming.

But with Biden’s age a big factor, voters are going to be looking at his running mate and asking if she’s ready to step in. Most of them will conclude she isn’t.

He left a clear track record during his four years on state Supreme Court.

An election campaign is no time to leave stones unturned!

Merit selection is one idea that should be considered to make our Supreme Court better and to assure the citizenry that qualified jurists are at work.

Wisconsin health care costs are some of the highest in the nation, placing a growing burden on our local businesses’ ability to thrive.

Forcing GMO corn on Mexico is part of destructive, pro-corporate U.S. policy.

A lot of environmentalists are furious over Pres. Joe Biden’s decision to allow some drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. I’m one environmentalist who’s not. Here are my reasons.

The bureaucracy isn’t just centralizing America; it’s centralizing itself

Nonpartisan in name only, court control hangs in the balance.

Keep an eye on North Carolina.

Insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are erecting barriers to some treatments for cancer and other illnesses by implementing so-called copay accumulator adjustments.

On the state and local levels, especially in Milwaukee, politicians are not enacting progressive policies. Instead, decision-makers continue to push carceral solutions that further criminalize Black people.

Clubs offer an enormous return on investment. Every $1 spent on afterschool programming saves over $3 by increasing kids’ learning potential, improving performance and reducing crime. Studies show every dollar invested in clubs also returns $9.60 in future earnings and cost-savings to communities.

With the farm bill up for debate this year, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin should spend more time tackling the real cause of Wisconsin’s dairy farm crisis: corporate concentration.

It seems the rallying cry for “Medicare for All” that was near the top of the agenda during the 2020 presidential campaign has been lost in the drum beat of today’s bitter politics.

Nothing will dissuade Republicans In Trump Only. Mike Pence observing that “tourists don’t injure 140 police officers by sightseeing” only proves he is a “trader,” as one Trump intellectual called the former veep.

What his tarnished stature as Fox News board member reveals about the once golden GOP leader.

Innovative, unconventional — and unexplainably made to operate on 60% of what other public schools get.

We must defund campus liberals. When I was a college student, there was a clear liberal bias, but you could still engage in thoughtful debate.

It’s coal and other fossil fuels’ turn to be replaced. But history shows us it won’t happen without a lot of kicking and screaming.

But with Biden’s age a big factor, voters are going to be looking at his running mate and asking if she’s ready to step in. Most of them will conclude she isn’t.

He left a clear track record during his four years on state Supreme Court.

An election campaign is no time to leave stones unturned!

Merit selection is one idea that should be considered to make our Supreme Court better and to assure the citizenry that qualified jurists are at work.

Wisconsin health care costs are some of the highest in the nation, placing a growing burden on our local businesses’ ability to thrive.

Forcing GMO corn on Mexico is part of destructive, pro-corporate U.S. policy.

A lot of environmentalists are furious over Pres. Joe Biden’s decision to allow some drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. I’m one environmentalist who’s not. Here are my reasons.

The bureaucracy isn’t just centralizing America; it’s centralizing itself

Nonpartisan in name only, court control hangs in the balance.

Keep an eye on North Carolina.

Insurers and pharmacy benefit managers are erecting barriers to some treatments for cancer and other illnesses by implementing so-called copay accumulator adjustments.

On the state and local levels, especially in Milwaukee, politicians are not enacting progressive policies. Instead, decision-makers continue to push carceral solutions that further criminalize Black people.

Clubs offer an enormous return on investment. Every $1 spent on afterschool programming saves over $3 by increasing kids’ learning potential, improving performance and reducing crime. Studies show every dollar invested in clubs also returns $9.60 in future earnings and cost-savings to communities.

With the farm bill up for debate this year, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin should spend more time tackling the real cause of Wisconsin’s dairy farm crisis: corporate concentration.

It seems the rallying cry for “Medicare for All” that was near the top of the agenda during the 2020 presidential campaign has been lost in the drum beat of today’s bitter politics.

Nothing will dissuade Republicans In Trump Only. Mike Pence observing that “tourists don’t injure 140 police officers by sightseeing” only proves he is a “trader,” as one Trump intellectual called the former veep.

What his tarnished stature as Fox News board member reveals about the once golden GOP leader.