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Just a day before Lamar Jefferson allegedly committed attempted murder and terrorized State Street, he was walking out of the Dane County Jail with a disorderly conduct citation even though he threatened to kill police officers and the man who had punched him earlier in the day on November 22nd.
The people of Wisconsin have made their voices resoundingly clear. Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support progressive, pragmatic, and common-sense policies that make our communities safer, individuals healthier, and people more prosperous.
Gov. Tony Evers has radicalized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and things look to only get worse in his next term, conservative leaders predict.
Losing candidates in Wisconsin’s top statewide races, when the results became apparent, quickly and graciously conceded defeat and congratulated the winners.
Substance and civility matter, and the people and their politicians have major disconnects.
Both locally and nationally there’s evidence it can work for schools.
As a neurologist who specializes in caring for stroke patients, I’ve seen how telemedicine has transformed stroke care by bringing specialized expertise to both hospitals and homes throughout the region.
It’s getting to be a pattern, as the county board makes questionable decisions.
Here ends, at least on a regular basis, one of the longest-running columns in the history of Milwaukee newspapering.
The same party that delights in attacking Democrats for supposedly wanting to defund the police and criticizing them for causing property taxes to rise is really the one that is expert at doing both. And they’ve spent the last 12 years of their reign doing just that.
The Evers administration wrongly issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business grants based on changed eligibility requirements, according to the latest state audit of the billions of dollars in federal COVID relief Evers has spent at his discretion.
Beyond tax cuts and funding for primary and secondary schools, there are a host of other intelligent priorities for spending. Here are several that I deem to be strategic and hope politicos agree.
No one spins like Trump’s hard-core base.
But we now expect such behavior from Donald Trump.
State Assembly Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Appleton) has had enough of Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman’s bigoted comments.
Through gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans have engineered consent. They keep power even when most voters in the state do not wish for them to have it.
But the effects of the decrease wound up being muted.
The child tax credit may be a good idea, but Democrats need to rethink the ideology of entitlement
The glitzy and choreographed event welcoming the new Badgers football coach felt like the most significant demarcation point since Barry Alvarez came to town 32 years ago.
Historical Society director Christian Overland is planning an “innovation experience area” in a new Wisconsin History Center on Madison’s Capitol Square.
Just a day before Lamar Jefferson allegedly committed attempted murder and terrorized State Street, he was walking out of the Dane County Jail with a disorderly conduct citation even though he threatened to kill police officers and the man who had punched him earlier in the day on November 22nd.
The people of Wisconsin have made their voices resoundingly clear. Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support progressive, pragmatic, and common-sense policies that make our communities safer, individuals healthier, and people more prosperous.
Gov. Tony Evers has radicalized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and things look to only get worse in his next term, conservative leaders predict.
Losing candidates in Wisconsin’s top statewide races, when the results became apparent, quickly and graciously conceded defeat and congratulated the winners.
Substance and civility matter, and the people and their politicians have major disconnects.
Both locally and nationally there’s evidence it can work for schools.
As a neurologist who specializes in caring for stroke patients, I’ve seen how telemedicine has transformed stroke care by bringing specialized expertise to both hospitals and homes throughout the region.
It’s getting to be a pattern, as the county board makes questionable decisions.
Here ends, at least on a regular basis, one of the longest-running columns in the history of Milwaukee newspapering.
The same party that delights in attacking Democrats for supposedly wanting to defund the police and criticizing them for causing property taxes to rise is really the one that is expert at doing both. And they’ve spent the last 12 years of their reign doing just that.
The Evers administration wrongly issued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business grants based on changed eligibility requirements, according to the latest state audit of the billions of dollars in federal COVID relief Evers has spent at his discretion.
Beyond tax cuts and funding for primary and secondary schools, there are a host of other intelligent priorities for spending. Here are several that I deem to be strategic and hope politicos agree.
No one spins like Trump’s hard-core base.
But we now expect such behavior from Donald Trump.
State Assembly Rep. Lee Snodgrass (D-Appleton) has had enough of Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman’s bigoted comments.
Through gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans have engineered consent. They keep power even when most voters in the state do not wish for them to have it.
But the effects of the decrease wound up being muted.
The child tax credit may be a good idea, but Democrats need to rethink the ideology of entitlement
The glitzy and choreographed event welcoming the new Badgers football coach felt like the most significant demarcation point since Barry Alvarez came to town 32 years ago.
Historical Society director Christian Overland is planning an “innovation experience area” in a new Wisconsin History Center on Madison’s Capitol Square.
