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When powerful and self-serving interests shower our elected representatives in Washington, and here in Wisconsin, with millions in campaign contributions, they often get what they want. But it is ordinary citizens and smaller businesses that pay the price and most of us never see it coming.
The number of biolabs now performing research with dangerous pathogens—many in dense population areas—is skyrocketing.
The pause on mifepristone threatens the FDA’s authority over the approval process for medications in general and could have far-reaching consequences for patients’ access to other FDA-approved medications.
The DNR owes Wisconsin answers.
State Rep. David Steffen, R-Howard, is introducing a bill that would ban the use of social media by kids under 18 between the hours of 10PM and 7AM. You can’t make this stuff up.
Losing the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by a whopping 11-point margin was a big blow to Republicans, prompting a round of soul-searching and recriminations.
Trump has never apologized for his actions or words following the Central Park charges and false convictions, even when asked to do so during the 2016 presidential campaign
Once the nation’s second most populous city, Chicago’s now fallen to third as thousands flee it and a Cook County riven with crime and violence, high taxes, and a hopeless financial outlook crippled by the award of exorbitant public pensions.
Current court members were active in election, could intensify rancor between judges.
When Justice-elect Protasiewcz is sworn in this August, which laws/reforms are most likely to be struck down in short order?
Eleven things that went wrong.
And removed from office by Republican Senate supermajority. But then Gov. Evers could step in.
Beyond the candidates and their individual campaign strategies, the respective political parties waged entirely different battles.
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.
When powerful and self-serving interests shower our elected representatives in Washington, and here in Wisconsin, with millions in campaign contributions, they often get what they want. But it is ordinary citizens and smaller businesses that pay the price and most of us never see it coming.
The number of biolabs now performing research with dangerous pathogens—many in dense population areas—is skyrocketing.
The pause on mifepristone threatens the FDA’s authority over the approval process for medications in general and could have far-reaching consequences for patients’ access to other FDA-approved medications.
The DNR owes Wisconsin answers.
State Rep. David Steffen, R-Howard, is introducing a bill that would ban the use of social media by kids under 18 between the hours of 10PM and 7AM. You can’t make this stuff up.
Losing the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by a whopping 11-point margin was a big blow to Republicans, prompting a round of soul-searching and recriminations.
Trump has never apologized for his actions or words following the Central Park charges and false convictions, even when asked to do so during the 2016 presidential campaign
Once the nation’s second most populous city, Chicago’s now fallen to third as thousands flee it and a Cook County riven with crime and violence, high taxes, and a hopeless financial outlook crippled by the award of exorbitant public pensions.
Current court members were active in election, could intensify rancor between judges.
When Justice-elect Protasiewcz is sworn in this August, which laws/reforms are most likely to be struck down in short order?
Eleven things that went wrong.
And removed from office by Republican Senate supermajority. But then Gov. Evers could step in.
Beyond the candidates and their individual campaign strategies, the respective political parties waged entirely different battles.
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.