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The legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance recently approved a lease for the Department of Corrections that saves taxpayers $322,000 over five years. If both five year extensions of the lease are exercised, it will save more than $1 million.
The Inflation Reduction Act is a historic example of what we can achieve when we elect pro-worker leaders committed to improving the lives of everyday people.
What’s driving the lack of workers and how to fix it.
Good for the city, yes. But how good for the Milwaukee Art Museum?
In my interview with her on campus this week, Mnookin talked about first impressions and key challenges.
On Sept. 21, Gov. Tony Evers made a bold move: He came out in favor of binding referendums, and he called the Legislature back to vote on beginning the process of amending our Wisconsin Constitution to provide for such popular sovereignty.
Toney, who is endorsed by more than 100 sheriffs, district attorneys and police chiefs, says the soft-on-crime failures start at the top, with a liberal attorney general who has silently supported lawlessness.
A Trump endorsement may mean something different in a general election than a primary election.
In 2011, Dane County accepted Dr. LaVar Charleston into the First Offenders Deferred Prosecution program after his felony arrest for the strangulation and suffocation of a Madison police officer.
And the Federal Reserve is making it worse.
Voter survey shows major concerns about our republic heading into midterms
Late in the evening, a federal appeals court handed down a blistering ruling that unleashed the Justice Department so to rightly resume using documents marked as classified that were seized from Donald Trump in the FBI search.
Changing our election laws is the first step in a well-orchestrated process to weaken and create distrust in American elections.
The calendars show the Democrat has often put in less than an eight-hour day over his term, much less a 40-hour week, doing the people’s business.
Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has it just right. Which makes him an unlikely ally for those who have been saying for years Wisconsin should allow the people to weigh in definitively on some of the state’s most contentious issues.
Mandela Barnes wants to bring them back.
The city of Milwaukee presents another budget with cuts to the police force.
The state polls released since Labor Day, in contrast with those released earlier this summer, have tended to show Republicans in a somewhat healthier position in key Senate races.
For Biden, a month of woes, then a suspicious surge of popularity.
Enthusiasm for royalty often gives way to enthusiasm for elitist arrangements in our economics and our politics.
The legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance recently approved a lease for the Department of Corrections that saves taxpayers $322,000 over five years. If both five year extensions of the lease are exercised, it will save more than $1 million.
The Inflation Reduction Act is a historic example of what we can achieve when we elect pro-worker leaders committed to improving the lives of everyday people.
What’s driving the lack of workers and how to fix it.
Good for the city, yes. But how good for the Milwaukee Art Museum?
In my interview with her on campus this week, Mnookin talked about first impressions and key challenges.
On Sept. 21, Gov. Tony Evers made a bold move: He came out in favor of binding referendums, and he called the Legislature back to vote on beginning the process of amending our Wisconsin Constitution to provide for such popular sovereignty.
Toney, who is endorsed by more than 100 sheriffs, district attorneys and police chiefs, says the soft-on-crime failures start at the top, with a liberal attorney general who has silently supported lawlessness.
A Trump endorsement may mean something different in a general election than a primary election.
In 2011, Dane County accepted Dr. LaVar Charleston into the First Offenders Deferred Prosecution program after his felony arrest for the strangulation and suffocation of a Madison police officer.
And the Federal Reserve is making it worse.
Voter survey shows major concerns about our republic heading into midterms
Late in the evening, a federal appeals court handed down a blistering ruling that unleashed the Justice Department so to rightly resume using documents marked as classified that were seized from Donald Trump in the FBI search.
Changing our election laws is the first step in a well-orchestrated process to weaken and create distrust in American elections.
The calendars show the Democrat has often put in less than an eight-hour day over his term, much less a 40-hour week, doing the people’s business.
Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has it just right. Which makes him an unlikely ally for those who have been saying for years Wisconsin should allow the people to weigh in definitively on some of the state’s most contentious issues.
Mandela Barnes wants to bring them back.
The city of Milwaukee presents another budget with cuts to the police force.
The state polls released since Labor Day, in contrast with those released earlier this summer, have tended to show Republicans in a somewhat healthier position in key Senate races.
For Biden, a month of woes, then a suspicious surge of popularity.
Enthusiasm for royalty often gives way to enthusiasm for elitist arrangements in our economics and our politics.
