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With the willful misuse of our public airwaves, a certain segment of the citizenry developed a false understanding of our electoral process of free and fair elections. Make no mistake about what happened. Democracy took a direct hit.
A better solution is to amend the U.S. Constitution to declare that corporations aren’t people and that campaign spending limits are legal.
The only way to stop the Republican bullies and their special interest, big-money allies like Wisconsin Manufacturing & Commerce is to hit back. Perhaps when they realize that both sides can throw a punch, we’ll revert to more civilized judicial campaigns.
An innocent mistake illustrates why “The Talk” remains necessary for Black and brown youth
Vouchers are largely tax subsidies for existing private school families, and a tax bailout for struggling private schools. They have harmful test score impacts that persist for years, and they’re a revolving door of school enrollment.
Senator Baldwin made the correct call about the F-35s. The vast majority of the voters across Wisconsin support the decision.
The DNR has had ample time to review the Line 5 relocation project and it is our hope they will approve it without further delay.
How about, for once, law-abiding citizenry contact all 37 members to encourage YES votes on two resolutions.
CEO’s decision to remove art works raises questions about governance of public entity.
For decades, when sports teams from Milwaukee and Chicago have played each other, I-94 gets a lot of traffic and thus has been dubbed the path for I-94 Rivalries. Perhaps with the recent announcement that the Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago in August of 2024, combined with the RNC in Milwaukee a month earlier, the interstate should get an additional nickname. How about the Pathway to Politics?
When Tammy Baldwin announced last week that she would seek a third term as Wisconsin’s junior U.S. senator, she did so as a frontrunner — which is somewhat remarkable in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
After liberal state Supreme Court victory, groups ask Republican lawmakers to enshrine Act 10 and school choice in state constitution.
On the surface, Milwaukee’s latest year-over-year crime statistics show promise for the safety of the state’s largest city. Some city officials have even touted the aggregate numbers as cause for optimism. But the numbers tell a different story when examined in context: Milwaukee is in trouble.
This bill is so vague and so broad and so unnecessary and so punitive. And my fear is it would disproportionately be applied to those who are demanding racial justice.
It’s not enough to reference the ‘baby blues’ that many women experience during pregnancy. We need to provide real resources and services.
As our state legislators balance priorities, we hope they’ll consider the struggle families are facing to find child care. We’re all in this together. And things are going to get worse if the state doesn’t address this crisis now.
Actually, he doesn’t want you to have a car at all. Neither does the World Economic Forum.
We know one thing for sure about the 2023–24 election cycle: Republicans will label Democrats and their policy proposals as “socialist,” one of the most successful one-word epithets in the arsenal of political opposition rhetoric.
Recently, too many candidates around the country have refused to admit they lost, even when the objective evidence they did is recognized by fair-minded people of both parties.
Celebrating Middle Eastern heritage matters, countering post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments and promoting inclusion within the American mosaic.
With the willful misuse of our public airwaves, a certain segment of the citizenry developed a false understanding of our electoral process of free and fair elections. Make no mistake about what happened. Democracy took a direct hit.
A better solution is to amend the U.S. Constitution to declare that corporations aren’t people and that campaign spending limits are legal.
The only way to stop the Republican bullies and their special interest, big-money allies like Wisconsin Manufacturing & Commerce is to hit back. Perhaps when they realize that both sides can throw a punch, we’ll revert to more civilized judicial campaigns.
An innocent mistake illustrates why “The Talk” remains necessary for Black and brown youth
Vouchers are largely tax subsidies for existing private school families, and a tax bailout for struggling private schools. They have harmful test score impacts that persist for years, and they’re a revolving door of school enrollment.
Senator Baldwin made the correct call about the F-35s. The vast majority of the voters across Wisconsin support the decision.
The DNR has had ample time to review the Line 5 relocation project and it is our hope they will approve it without further delay.
How about, for once, law-abiding citizenry contact all 37 members to encourage YES votes on two resolutions.
CEO’s decision to remove art works raises questions about governance of public entity.
For decades, when sports teams from Milwaukee and Chicago have played each other, I-94 gets a lot of traffic and thus has been dubbed the path for I-94 Rivalries. Perhaps with the recent announcement that the Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago in August of 2024, combined with the RNC in Milwaukee a month earlier, the interstate should get an additional nickname. How about the Pathway to Politics?
When Tammy Baldwin announced last week that she would seek a third term as Wisconsin’s junior U.S. senator, she did so as a frontrunner — which is somewhat remarkable in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
After liberal state Supreme Court victory, groups ask Republican lawmakers to enshrine Act 10 and school choice in state constitution.
On the surface, Milwaukee’s latest year-over-year crime statistics show promise for the safety of the state’s largest city. Some city officials have even touted the aggregate numbers as cause for optimism. But the numbers tell a different story when examined in context: Milwaukee is in trouble.
This bill is so vague and so broad and so unnecessary and so punitive. And my fear is it would disproportionately be applied to those who are demanding racial justice.
It’s not enough to reference the ‘baby blues’ that many women experience during pregnancy. We need to provide real resources and services.
As our state legislators balance priorities, we hope they’ll consider the struggle families are facing to find child care. We’re all in this together. And things are going to get worse if the state doesn’t address this crisis now.
Actually, he doesn’t want you to have a car at all. Neither does the World Economic Forum.
We know one thing for sure about the 2023–24 election cycle: Republicans will label Democrats and their policy proposals as “socialist,” one of the most successful one-word epithets in the arsenal of political opposition rhetoric.
Recently, too many candidates around the country have refused to admit they lost, even when the objective evidence they did is recognized by fair-minded people of both parties.
Celebrating Middle Eastern heritage matters, countering post-9/11 anti-Arab sentiments and promoting inclusion within the American mosaic.
