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Governor Tony Evers recent verbiage controversy has been ridiculed and joked about by many. However, there is a nefarious aspect to Evers “creative” wordsmithing in the recent budget bill before the state legislature.
Trump/Musk cuts hurt a popular government program and many workers who back MAGA.
This vulgar display of authoritarian over-reach by the Trump Administration is not more than we predicted in general terms last fall, but still is most galling and preposterous to see in operation.
Not only have the geniuses paused most foreign aid, cuttig off food and medical help for starving kids in poverty-stricken areas around the world, they’ve also stopped U.S. help to clear land mines that continue to kill and maim innocent people in former war zones.
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
Mahatma Gandhi employed a symbol of defiance to help bring an empire to its knees and free his people.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1 will offer an early test of the political environment after November’s presidential election.
If the left gets the state Supreme Court (it has had it for a year) for the next several years, it will turn Wisconsin into a California hellhole of radicalism.
GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
Most of its growth in population and workers in last 30 years has come from immigrants.
Aside from their weak and embarrassing antics during the convicted felon Donald Trump’s aggressively stupid speech last week, the Democratic leadership seems to have been pursuing a rope a dope strategy.
Donald Trump has apparently given up in his quest to destroy the Affordable Care Act, so now he’s just going to try to bleed it to death.
Whether through misleading arguments, frustrating questions on “electability” or problematic tough-on-crime ads, campaigns for state Supreme Court have gone in a troubling direction.
After six years in office, Evers has consistently argued that the removal of lead pipes is a top health priority, but has failed to offer a clear and strategic plan to achieve this objective.
Governor Tony Evers recent verbiage controversy has been ridiculed and joked about by many. However, there is a nefarious aspect to Evers “creative” wordsmithing in the recent budget bill before the state legislature.
Trump/Musk cuts hurt a popular government program and many workers who back MAGA.
This vulgar display of authoritarian over-reach by the Trump Administration is not more than we predicted in general terms last fall, but still is most galling and preposterous to see in operation.
Not only have the geniuses paused most foreign aid, cuttig off food and medical help for starving kids in poverty-stricken areas around the world, they’ve also stopped U.S. help to clear land mines that continue to kill and maim innocent people in former war zones.
Democrats are trying to make the Supreme Court race about abortion. That makes sense from a political standpoint, but it may actually be a false issue.
As a trio of cases either before or likely to reach the Wisconsin Supreme Court could result in dramatically expanded gubernatorial veto power, the Legislature is being urged to consider abandoning the budget-writing process and simply allow the current budget to roll over to the new biennium on July 1.
We Energies in the midst of an energy transformation focused on reliability, affordability and economic growth.
The Opee Awards, now in their 19th consecutive year, recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government as well as highlight some threats to it. They are being announced in advance of national Sunshine Week, March 16-22.
I thought as a culture we had banished the R-word. Then came Elon Musk and the followers of Donald Trump.
The president of the United States is aggressively testing the limits of his executive power and other political norms. How to teach civics in this moment?
The county’s next Human Services Director should be a departure from a disastrous trend of privatization—not a product of it.
Mahatma Gandhi employed a symbol of defiance to help bring an empire to its knees and free his people.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1 will offer an early test of the political environment after November’s presidential election.
If the left gets the state Supreme Court (it has had it for a year) for the next several years, it will turn Wisconsin into a California hellhole of radicalism.
GOP lawmakers faced backlash before they barely scraped together the votes to pass a budget blueprint that will likely cut social safety net programs to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans.
Most of its growth in population and workers in last 30 years has come from immigrants.
Aside from their weak and embarrassing antics during the convicted felon Donald Trump’s aggressively stupid speech last week, the Democratic leadership seems to have been pursuing a rope a dope strategy.
Donald Trump has apparently given up in his quest to destroy the Affordable Care Act, so now he’s just going to try to bleed it to death.
Whether through misleading arguments, frustrating questions on “electability” or problematic tough-on-crime ads, campaigns for state Supreme Court have gone in a troubling direction.
After six years in office, Evers has consistently argued that the removal of lead pipes is a top health priority, but has failed to offer a clear and strategic plan to achieve this objective.
