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A hyper-partisan conservative majority that almost helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election has been replaced by a new majority determined to defend voting rights.
Wisconsin needs a better example of leadership.
GOP keeps shifting highest tax burden from rich to the poor.
Black Americans go missing at rates high above people of other backgrounds.
State leaders must ensure that the end of continuous Medicaid coverage does not also mark the end of robust access to effective mental health care for tens of thousands of kids with autism.
After a long, bitter, and record-breakingly expensive state Supreme Court race, Protasiewicz takes her seat this week, tilting the bench on the state’s highest court to the left for the first time in 15 years
O’Donnell weighs the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s new liberal majority ignoring precedent and possibly the state’s open meetings law to fire Wisconsin’s director of State Courts.
The first action of the new 4-3 liberal Supreme Court majority was to engage in a senseless partisan witch hunt.
The Economic Policy Institute recently raised a warning flag over the growing trend among state legislatures to weaken child labor laws.
Is it a crime to take bad legal advice? That’s the George Costanza defense Donald Trump’s sycophants are positing.
Before we start throwing political opponents in jail like some banana republic based on legal stretches or theories, trust the voters to sort it out. Remember them?
Van Orden’s outburst and continuous cursing at 16 and 17-year-old high school students who work as Senate pages was so troubling it brought liberals and conservatives together in denouncing his behavior.
ent privacy.
Fortunately, there is a workable solution. Under federal law, schools are prohibited from releasing “personally identifiable information” about students. That means that schools can share records, data and information with the public, so long as they make sure to redact any language or details that can be tied to an individual student.
If we don’t start listening, more blood will be shed on the streets this summer, and our prison system will be filled with the unfulfilled potential of our city’s young people.
As of June, more than one-third had not initiated the renewal process.
More than ever, we should be demanding that our elected officials work together to strengthen these programs, improve benefits, and ensure every Wisconsinite has affordable and high-quality health care.
One of the underlying issues in this discussion is the reality that behavioral health is not profitable. Hospitals and other mental health providers have not expanded their services, especially in rural areas, as these services are not self-sustaining. The Crisis Now model and changes to statute address some of these concerns and we know that the state must play a financial role.
Watertown Pride celebration shows consequences of hateful rhetoric.
In 2023, more LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. face mental health issues because of legislation passed that directly discriminates against them.
While we have associated the summer weather with problematic behavior in some urban communities, how many of us ever really made the connection to climate change and global warming with a link to possible crimes in communities.
A hyper-partisan conservative majority that almost helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election has been replaced by a new majority determined to defend voting rights.
Wisconsin needs a better example of leadership.
GOP keeps shifting highest tax burden from rich to the poor.
Black Americans go missing at rates high above people of other backgrounds.
State leaders must ensure that the end of continuous Medicaid coverage does not also mark the end of robust access to effective mental health care for tens of thousands of kids with autism.
After a long, bitter, and record-breakingly expensive state Supreme Court race, Protasiewicz takes her seat this week, tilting the bench on the state’s highest court to the left for the first time in 15 years
O’Donnell weighs the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s new liberal majority ignoring precedent and possibly the state’s open meetings law to fire Wisconsin’s director of State Courts.
The first action of the new 4-3 liberal Supreme Court majority was to engage in a senseless partisan witch hunt.
The Economic Policy Institute recently raised a warning flag over the growing trend among state legislatures to weaken child labor laws.
Is it a crime to take bad legal advice? That’s the George Costanza defense Donald Trump’s sycophants are positing.
Before we start throwing political opponents in jail like some banana republic based on legal stretches or theories, trust the voters to sort it out. Remember them?
Van Orden’s outburst and continuous cursing at 16 and 17-year-old high school students who work as Senate pages was so troubling it brought liberals and conservatives together in denouncing his behavior.
ent privacy.
Fortunately, there is a workable solution. Under federal law, schools are prohibited from releasing “personally identifiable information” about students. That means that schools can share records, data and information with the public, so long as they make sure to redact any language or details that can be tied to an individual student.
If we don’t start listening, more blood will be shed on the streets this summer, and our prison system will be filled with the unfulfilled potential of our city’s young people.
As of June, more than one-third had not initiated the renewal process.
More than ever, we should be demanding that our elected officials work together to strengthen these programs, improve benefits, and ensure every Wisconsinite has affordable and high-quality health care.
One of the underlying issues in this discussion is the reality that behavioral health is not profitable. Hospitals and other mental health providers have not expanded their services, especially in rural areas, as these services are not self-sustaining. The Crisis Now model and changes to statute address some of these concerns and we know that the state must play a financial role.
Watertown Pride celebration shows consequences of hateful rhetoric.
In 2023, more LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. face mental health issues because of legislation passed that directly discriminates against them.
While we have associated the summer weather with problematic behavior in some urban communities, how many of us ever really made the connection to climate change and global warming with a link to possible crimes in communities.