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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides us an opportunity to finally get every house and business access to high-speed internet. Now it’s up to leaders in Washington to make sure we create the correct conditions that allow this law to do what it was meant to do.
Is it too much to ask that firearms be treated in the same, nuanced manner as motorized vehicles? That there be one set of rules for owning and carrying a handgun; another for purchasing a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle; and a third for how much ammo a single clip may hold?
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up recent statewide elections for governor and U.S. Senate, and offer their views on why ticket splitting seems to be a Badger pastime. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
It is Evers, with election to a second term, who should be heralded as the single most consequential protector since La Follette of the enlightened goals of that “Wisconsin Idea.”
Republicans fell victim to a lack of bold vision, sketchy candidates, and polarized incumbency.
The biggest loser in Tuesday’s election was Donald Trump and his style of politics.
This week’s midterm elections were most notable for what didn’t happen.
Becky Kleefisch would have beaten Tony Evers. But she got snowed under in the Republican primary by Tim Michels’ millions and by Trump’s endorsement of Michels.
Beyond the ballot totals, which groups, advocates and trends won or lost?
Mr. Johnson is going back to Washington. But the usual suspects in the mainstream media took their sweet time calling Tuesday’s race for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
The data give a mixed picture of the state’s economy, with stagnant labor force growth.
Until federal leaders take action to speed access to utility poles, 100% connectivity will remain out of reach.
The so-called red wave turned into an election night struggle for Republicans, with Gov. Tony Evers winning a second term and the GOP-led Legislature’s hopes for a veto-proof supermajority apparently coming up short.
While the bombast and high volume of television advertisements cease, there is now the realization with seven weeks left in this congressional session some more work needs to be completed.
I volunteered to be a poll worker. Little did I know how things had changed.
Last month’s financial reports published by the big oil conglomerates spoke volumes.
Oligarchy is an American phenomenon, and it’s expanding at an exponential rate, while income inequality is surging.
Republicans’ short-term success in rural areas—like Wisconsin farm country, where I’m from—can distract from the need for a long-term rural policy agenda that can outlast the appeal of Trump, or any one personality.
Republican attack ads have been vicious this year — especially the ads that portray Barnes, the first Black Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, as “dangerous” and “different.”
Of all the sleazy tricks pulled this election season one of the sleaziest appears to be an effort by a phony “patriot” group to get Wisconsin conservatives to vote for a former independent candidate for governor who backs Republican Tim Michels.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides us an opportunity to finally get every house and business access to high-speed internet. Now it’s up to leaders in Washington to make sure we create the correct conditions that allow this law to do what it was meant to do.
Is it too much to ask that firearms be treated in the same, nuanced manner as motorized vehicles? That there be one set of rules for owning and carrying a handgun; another for purchasing a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle; and a third for how much ammo a single clip may hold?
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up recent statewide elections for governor and U.S. Senate, and offer their views on why ticket splitting seems to be a Badger pastime. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
It is Evers, with election to a second term, who should be heralded as the single most consequential protector since La Follette of the enlightened goals of that “Wisconsin Idea.”
Republicans fell victim to a lack of bold vision, sketchy candidates, and polarized incumbency.
The biggest loser in Tuesday’s election was Donald Trump and his style of politics.
This week’s midterm elections were most notable for what didn’t happen.
Becky Kleefisch would have beaten Tony Evers. But she got snowed under in the Republican primary by Tim Michels’ millions and by Trump’s endorsement of Michels.
Beyond the ballot totals, which groups, advocates and trends won or lost?
Mr. Johnson is going back to Washington. But the usual suspects in the mainstream media took their sweet time calling Tuesday’s race for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.
The data give a mixed picture of the state’s economy, with stagnant labor force growth.
Until federal leaders take action to speed access to utility poles, 100% connectivity will remain out of reach.
The so-called red wave turned into an election night struggle for Republicans, with Gov. Tony Evers winning a second term and the GOP-led Legislature’s hopes for a veto-proof supermajority apparently coming up short.
While the bombast and high volume of television advertisements cease, there is now the realization with seven weeks left in this congressional session some more work needs to be completed.
I volunteered to be a poll worker. Little did I know how things had changed.
Last month’s financial reports published by the big oil conglomerates spoke volumes.
Oligarchy is an American phenomenon, and it’s expanding at an exponential rate, while income inequality is surging.
Republicans’ short-term success in rural areas—like Wisconsin farm country, where I’m from—can distract from the need for a long-term rural policy agenda that can outlast the appeal of Trump, or any one personality.
Republican attack ads have been vicious this year — especially the ads that portray Barnes, the first Black Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, as “dangerous” and “different.”
Of all the sleazy tricks pulled this election season one of the sleaziest appears to be an effort by a phony “patriot” group to get Wisconsin conservatives to vote for a former independent candidate for governor who backs Republican Tim Michels.
