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Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss property tax increases facing property owners and how Wisconsin legislators could address the issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.
More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.
Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.
The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week offered yet another example — as if we needed more — of the continued attacks on American democracy, on the truth, on common decency, embodied by one of the most despicable men to ever hold power in America.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump’s followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.
The threat to American democracy should be more than enough to mobilize every Democratic voter in the country. Every independent voter. Every Republican voter who grasps the necessity and urgency of our time.
A leader and an inspiration to the next generation
My plan targets the outdated assumption that all of state government must be physically concentrated in one of the most expensive regions in the Midwest.
Sorting through the big picture of the year ahead, and analyzing why 2026 could be the year where Democrats win a trifecta for the first time in a long time.
Five years after Jan. 6 insurrection, the nation continues sliding into autocracy, while Wisconsin moves forward.
The tech boom doesn’t have to come at the expense of our environment, our electrical grid, or our pocketbooks — but only if we establish smart policies now.
A group show at Appleton’s Trout Museum stands up for “political” art in an era of cowardice and compliance.
An idea only a Tony Evers-appointed board could come up with.
A legitimate question: Is the armed incursion into Venezuela legal?
For a president who staked his reputation on being the ultimate champion of the American worker, the savvy businessman, the powerful master, the current trajectory is a fundamental failure of his economic architecture.
Ultimately, the school portion of your property tax bill is determined by a balance of several factors that are largely outside the control of your local school board.
Legislative leadership is willing to allow the most regressive tax of all — the property tax — to continue out of control, in turn causing harm to elderly homeowners on fixed incomes and making rents and homeownership even more unaffordable for younger people.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and her allies on the City Council are running the city off a fiscal cliff while shouting down voices of reason.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss property tax increases facing property owners and how Wisconsin legislators could address the issue. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Subsidization of nuclear energy in Wisconsin is about government favoring one industry over another.
More U.S.-built cargo ships would help revitalize the country’s industrial landscape.
A coal terminal in Superior will terminate its operations this year as cargo shippers are moving less tonnage via the Great Lakes.
Raising millions in charitable dollars while executives get rich.
The fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol this week offered yet another example — as if we needed more — of the continued attacks on American democracy, on the truth, on common decency, embodied by one of the most despicable men to ever hold power in America.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump’s followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.
The threat to American democracy should be more than enough to mobilize every Democratic voter in the country. Every independent voter. Every Republican voter who grasps the necessity and urgency of our time.
A leader and an inspiration to the next generation
My plan targets the outdated assumption that all of state government must be physically concentrated in one of the most expensive regions in the Midwest.
Sorting through the big picture of the year ahead, and analyzing why 2026 could be the year where Democrats win a trifecta for the first time in a long time.
Five years after Jan. 6 insurrection, the nation continues sliding into autocracy, while Wisconsin moves forward.
The tech boom doesn’t have to come at the expense of our environment, our electrical grid, or our pocketbooks — but only if we establish smart policies now.
A group show at Appleton’s Trout Museum stands up for “political” art in an era of cowardice and compliance.
An idea only a Tony Evers-appointed board could come up with.
A legitimate question: Is the armed incursion into Venezuela legal?
For a president who staked his reputation on being the ultimate champion of the American worker, the savvy businessman, the powerful master, the current trajectory is a fundamental failure of his economic architecture.
Ultimately, the school portion of your property tax bill is determined by a balance of several factors that are largely outside the control of your local school board.
Legislative leadership is willing to allow the most regressive tax of all — the property tax — to continue out of control, in turn causing harm to elderly homeowners on fixed incomes and making rents and homeownership even more unaffordable for younger people.