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The immunity that public officials need to do their jobs is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for their nonofficial acts.

It’s a sign of the lost opportunity that so many of the issues that the commission identified twenty-five years ago still resonate in Wisconsin.

I am proud of what we have accomplished this year and look forward to 2026.

Tiffany-authored bill could move management to state with over 100 wolf attacks in recent year.

2025 has already shown that voters have had enough of the cruelty, chaos and incompetence.

To compete, a fair and comprehensive federal approach is necessary. A patchwork quilt of state laws will put America behind in the AI race.

From Florida to Texas, ACA marketplace enrollment has soared with enhanced tax credits, but failure to extend them could leave millions uninsured starting in 2026.

Let’s fund our K-12 schools by taxing the rich, individuals and corporations alike.

Let’s mint more millionaires.

Donald Trump’s performance during his recent public address brought to mind a familiar holiday figure, “The Grinch.”

In this season of light and charity, we have every reason to hope for the renewal of those instincts that Abraham Lincoln identified as “the better angels of our nature.”

Christmas is about doing what’s right, Charlie Brown. And it’s about what it does to us.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the federal ban on hemp products containing THC and its effect on a multi-million dollar industry in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public

Wisconsin is one of only seven states that prohibit clerks from processing absentee ballots before Election Day.

The state Legislature has abandoned Wisconsin’s long-standing commitment to funding two-thirds of public education, shifting more of the cost onto local property taxpayers.

What Evers announced was the funneling of taxpayer dollars to left-wing ideological organizations, many of them explicitly political, to spread progressive fervor among the youth.

While Republican lawmakers like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia expressed their disgust, there was not a peep from Wisconsin’s six Republican members of the House, or U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell and colleagues must weigh a myriad of conflicting information.

Democrats have finally noticed that prices are way too high…just in time for them to blame them on President Trump ahead of the midterm elections.

An Associated Press story from the other day caught my eye. It was about a controversy stemming from a new policy limiting how much a student can borrow under federally supported student loan programs.

The immunity that public officials need to do their jobs is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for their nonofficial acts.

It’s a sign of the lost opportunity that so many of the issues that the commission identified twenty-five years ago still resonate in Wisconsin.

I am proud of what we have accomplished this year and look forward to 2026.

Tiffany-authored bill could move management to state with over 100 wolf attacks in recent year.

2025 has already shown that voters have had enough of the cruelty, chaos and incompetence.

To compete, a fair and comprehensive federal approach is necessary. A patchwork quilt of state laws will put America behind in the AI race.

From Florida to Texas, ACA marketplace enrollment has soared with enhanced tax credits, but failure to extend them could leave millions uninsured starting in 2026.

Let’s fund our K-12 schools by taxing the rich, individuals and corporations alike.

Let’s mint more millionaires.

Donald Trump’s performance during his recent public address brought to mind a familiar holiday figure, “The Grinch.”

In this season of light and charity, we have every reason to hope for the renewal of those instincts that Abraham Lincoln identified as “the better angels of our nature.”

Christmas is about doing what’s right, Charlie Brown. And it’s about what it does to us.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up the federal ban on hemp products containing THC and its effect on a multi-million dollar industry in Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public

Wisconsin is one of only seven states that prohibit clerks from processing absentee ballots before Election Day.

The state Legislature has abandoned Wisconsin’s long-standing commitment to funding two-thirds of public education, shifting more of the cost onto local property taxpayers.

What Evers announced was the funneling of taxpayer dollars to left-wing ideological organizations, many of them explicitly political, to spread progressive fervor among the youth.

While Republican lawmakers like Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia expressed their disgust, there was not a peep from Wisconsin’s six Republican members of the House, or U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell and colleagues must weigh a myriad of conflicting information.

Democrats have finally noticed that prices are way too high…just in time for them to blame them on President Trump ahead of the midterm elections.

An Associated Press story from the other day caught my eye. It was about a controversy stemming from a new policy limiting how much a student can borrow under federally supported student loan programs.