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The outcome was a big achievement for Democrats, who rallied supporters and raised money across the country for what would normally be a little-noticed (and officially nonpartisan) contest.
Protasiewicz’s win flipped control of the court from a 4-3 conservative majority to a 4-3 liberal majority that can now revisit the contentious cases of the Walker era and its aftermath.
Abortion must be legal and accessible to all who need it. Our freedom depends on our ability to make our own decisions and determine our own futures, even if other people disagree.
The Tennessee Legislature voted to expel Black members for doing the exact same thing that their white colleague had done. In reality, none of them should have been removed.
Real concern about our police means dealing with the grotesque number of guns in our society.
If there were ever a time to have optimism about our collective capacity and will to address climate change, this is it.
It would be smart politics for GOP legislators to abandon outdated obstinacy. A train is coming down the tracks toward them. Wisconsin women lead and fear is gone.
A coalition for clean energy and a couple other recent stories that ran on WisBiz Green are reasons for Wisconsin environmental advocates to be encouraged. ·
Unions favor telling to asking with Wisconsin’s right to work.
The tables have been set, and the hour is now for agency and activism against anti-democratic extremism. The ball is in motion and the narrative suggests that the people have had enough.
I understand Walker needs a paycheck and his work as president of Young America’s Foundation keeps the light bill paid. But it does not make him look good, given what it seems he is required to do and say in that role.
Marsy’s Law is impacting crime victims in a way I am certain the more than 1.1 million Wisconsin residents who voted yes to ratify Marsy’s Law three years ago would be very pleased with.
By spurning Medicaid expansion, Wisconsin has left already struggling rural hospitals to shoulder the added costs because they cannot legally turn away patients, insured or not.
By not counting the value of copay assistance towards patient out-of-pocket costs, health plans are forcing patients into challenging financial and life-threatening predicaments where we cannot afford medically necessary treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the results of Wisconsin’s spring general election and what they say about the state’s political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Wikler, a 42-year-old Madison West High and Harvard graduate, is an ascending superstar in national Democratic politics, having led the Wisconsin party for nearly three years. The day after the bitterly contested court race, we talked about the campaign from the inside.
The election in Wisconsin this week is a vivid reminder that what happens at the local and state level is often more important than what takes place at the federal level.
Conservatives need to play to their strengths, relying on massive majorities in the Wisconsin legislature to codify priorities by state constitutional amendment.
Daniel Kelly, the losing candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, gave a remarkably bitter concession speech Tuesday night that could serve as an epitaph for misogynist minority rule in Wisconsin.
After it became clear Tuesday night that Janet Protasiewicz would defeat him by a wide margin, he had nothing but bad things to say about his opponent.
The outcome was a big achievement for Democrats, who rallied supporters and raised money across the country for what would normally be a little-noticed (and officially nonpartisan) contest.
Protasiewicz’s win flipped control of the court from a 4-3 conservative majority to a 4-3 liberal majority that can now revisit the contentious cases of the Walker era and its aftermath.
Abortion must be legal and accessible to all who need it. Our freedom depends on our ability to make our own decisions and determine our own futures, even if other people disagree.
The Tennessee Legislature voted to expel Black members for doing the exact same thing that their white colleague had done. In reality, none of them should have been removed.
Real concern about our police means dealing with the grotesque number of guns in our society.
If there were ever a time to have optimism about our collective capacity and will to address climate change, this is it.
It would be smart politics for GOP legislators to abandon outdated obstinacy. A train is coming down the tracks toward them. Wisconsin women lead and fear is gone.
A coalition for clean energy and a couple other recent stories that ran on WisBiz Green are reasons for Wisconsin environmental advocates to be encouraged. ·
Unions favor telling to asking with Wisconsin’s right to work.
The tables have been set, and the hour is now for agency and activism against anti-democratic extremism. The ball is in motion and the narrative suggests that the people have had enough.
I understand Walker needs a paycheck and his work as president of Young America’s Foundation keeps the light bill paid. But it does not make him look good, given what it seems he is required to do and say in that role.
Marsy’s Law is impacting crime victims in a way I am certain the more than 1.1 million Wisconsin residents who voted yes to ratify Marsy’s Law three years ago would be very pleased with.
By spurning Medicaid expansion, Wisconsin has left already struggling rural hospitals to shoulder the added costs because they cannot legally turn away patients, insured or not.
By not counting the value of copay assistance towards patient out-of-pocket costs, health plans are forcing patients into challenging financial and life-threatening predicaments where we cannot afford medically necessary treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the results of Wisconsin’s spring general election and what they say about the state’s political landscape. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Wikler, a 42-year-old Madison West High and Harvard graduate, is an ascending superstar in national Democratic politics, having led the Wisconsin party for nearly three years. The day after the bitterly contested court race, we talked about the campaign from the inside.
The election in Wisconsin this week is a vivid reminder that what happens at the local and state level is often more important than what takes place at the federal level.
Conservatives need to play to their strengths, relying on massive majorities in the Wisconsin legislature to codify priorities by state constitutional amendment.
Daniel Kelly, the losing candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, gave a remarkably bitter concession speech Tuesday night that could serve as an epitaph for misogynist minority rule in Wisconsin.
After it became clear Tuesday night that Janet Protasiewicz would defeat him by a wide margin, he had nothing but bad things to say about his opponent.
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