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In the nation’s 250th year, we have a lot of pieces to pick up and glue back together. Celebrations should not hide the constitutional crisis and dismiss the sharp divide we’re in right now.
According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe Donald Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country.
We’ve got unaddressed national emergencies coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them, much less taking corrective action.
National Day of Prayer offers reminder that freedom requires gratitude, faith, and vigilance
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.
The words we use to describe people who cross borders are not neutral. In Milwaukee, where immigrant labor constructed the breweries, tanneries, and foundries that built the city, the vocabulary of migration still sorts people by race and origin long after they arrive.
If we are serious about affordability, we must take a more balanced approach, one that prioritizes reliability, phases in new technologies responsibly, and stops forcing families to pay twice for the same electricity system.
Change the law so that custodians can charge location costs only if the records are produced within a strict deadline — perhaps 10 business days.
The slow-moving, inconvenient, expensive Madison-to-Milwaukee train idea is back.
Like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and California U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna at the federal level, she’s taking the AI debate seriously.
The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.
People can find points of connection in the stories of others, even if they’re of a different political party, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Listening is the key to building relationships.
A doctor friend of mine predicted this would happen 10 years ago: Measles is back.
An all‑the‑above strategy that includes renewables is the responsible path forward and positions our state to succeed for decades to come.
How and why ACA marketplace rates rose so high in Wisconsin and the nation.
In the nation’s 250th year, we have a lot of pieces to pick up and glue back together. Celebrations should not hide the constitutional crisis and dismiss the sharp divide we’re in right now.
According to a new Washington Post–ABC News–Ipsos poll, fifty-nine percent of Americans believe Donald Trump does not have the mental sharpness necessary to lead the country.
We’ve got unaddressed national emergencies coming out of our ears and we’re not meaningfully discussing them, much less taking corrective action.
National Day of Prayer offers reminder that freedom requires gratitude, faith, and vigilance
More than 1,600 of small bridges and culverts are in poor or severe condition. After years of work, a new platform, FixWIBridges.com, offers a transparent, user-friendly view of the problem.
This is not a moment for despair or division. It is a moment for resolve. We are in a democratic state of emergency, and the response must be peaceful, informed and proactive.
America faces a choice: Either it can have unrestrained partisan gerrymandering, or it can have a democratic republic. It can’t have both.
Both the left and the right have been lamenting the fact that Big Business has been granted a number of “subsidies” in the form of tax exemptions and tax credits. But are they really subsidies?
Findings from the first phase of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project highlighted the direct benefits of sustainable land management on commercial dairy forage fields, according to a Mid-West Farm Report story.
A back-to-basics approach to learning: ‘The Digital Delusion’ reveals how students learn best, and it’s not through high-tech AI in classrooms.
The words we use to describe people who cross borders are not neutral. In Milwaukee, where immigrant labor constructed the breweries, tanneries, and foundries that built the city, the vocabulary of migration still sorts people by race and origin long after they arrive.
If we are serious about affordability, we must take a more balanced approach, one that prioritizes reliability, phases in new technologies responsibly, and stops forcing families to pay twice for the same electricity system.
Change the law so that custodians can charge location costs only if the records are produced within a strict deadline — perhaps 10 business days.
The slow-moving, inconvenient, expensive Madison-to-Milwaukee train idea is back.
Like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and California U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna at the federal level, she’s taking the AI debate seriously.
The bottom line is that it’s way too early to declare this a big victory for Republicans or even to claim with much confidence that it will reduce the number of Black representatives. And, if it makes us consider voters as individuals with a simple right to vote, rather than as faceless members of a bloc that votes all the same, so much the better. Now, that would be true progress.
People can find points of connection in the stories of others, even if they’re of a different political party, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Listening is the key to building relationships.
A doctor friend of mine predicted this would happen 10 years ago: Measles is back.
An all‑the‑above strategy that includes renewables is the responsible path forward and positions our state to succeed for decades to come.
How and why ACA marketplace rates rose so high in Wisconsin and the nation.
