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The Bobby Newport-ification of Tim Michels, a State Senate candidate at the Capitol on Jan. 6, early voting rapidly approaching, and much more.
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The Bobby Newport-ification of Tim Michels, a State Senate candidate at the Capitol on Jan. 6, early voting rapidly approaching, and much more.

Let’s play “what if” either Tony Evers or Tim Michels prevails in the tightly contested race for Wisconsin governor two weeks away.

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday released the National Assessment of Educational Progress on reading and math, and the results once again show the widest achievement gap between black and white students in the country.

School choice advocates sharpen their pens for a new round of privatization lobbying

Whatever the outcomes of the November election the governor and Legislature must empower the Wisconsin Election Commission to employ civility and decency standards in all future campaign ads.

There is not a field of study, job, or sport that we women have not proven that they can excel. We are formidable opponents and we carry our weight. Yet, with the slight of a hand, we can be underpaid, undervalued, and just “under.”

Walsh won this day as he wanted exposure and an angry reaction. Meanwhile, the art of dialogue and conversation, something a university should excel at, took a loss.

Welcome to the Big Tech Censorship Guild.

Michels prevailed in the primary by aligning his candidacy with Trump, ideologically and stylistically.

From his efforts to eviscerate the state’s successful manufacturing tax incentive to his extreme climate change agenda, the liberal governor’s policies have shown he’s no friend of Wisconsin manufacturers and the hundreds of thousands of people they employ.

Tony Evers is choosing to release violent criminals. He could stop it, but he is not doing so because he wants it to happen. He wants violent felons to be released into our communities because social justice politics is more important to him than victims and their families.

Universal vouchers, proposed by gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels, would crack the foundation upon which our state was built — already weakened by decades of Republican-induced cuts.

There is nothing in his background to indicate that he would be a problem solver. And his volatile temperament disqualifies him. Congress is supposed to solve problems. Extremists like Van Orden just bloviate.

Republican U.S. Senator’s push to ‘save’ it would actually destroy the program.

Mandela Barnes could do well to cut a TV ad expressing his love of country and optimism — but he can’t redact his own recent history.

Despite what he might claim, Ron Johnson has spent the last twelve years working against small scale farmers, choosing to side with the large agricultural companies driving us out of business.

As I travel around in this intensely political season, talking about the relationships between rural Americans and Mexican workers, I see their stories, more and more, as an antidote to our divisive politics.

Polls keep suggesting a close election and that voters don’t take seriously enough the threat to democracy and basic voting rights the Democrats keep talking about.

Milwaukee’s rise in violent crime coincides with the denigration and depletion of the thin blue line.

A candidate themself should never, ever belittle, demean, or devalue citizens who show support and offer to volunteer for a campaign. To do so is seriously shallow.

The Bobby Newport-ification of Tim Michels, a State Senate candidate at the Capitol on Jan. 6, early voting rapidly approaching, and much more.

Let’s play “what if” either Tony Evers or Tim Michels prevails in the tightly contested race for Wisconsin governor two weeks away.

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday released the National Assessment of Educational Progress on reading and math, and the results once again show the widest achievement gap between black and white students in the country.

School choice advocates sharpen their pens for a new round of privatization lobbying

Whatever the outcomes of the November election the governor and Legislature must empower the Wisconsin Election Commission to employ civility and decency standards in all future campaign ads.

There is not a field of study, job, or sport that we women have not proven that they can excel. We are formidable opponents and we carry our weight. Yet, with the slight of a hand, we can be underpaid, undervalued, and just “under.”

Walsh won this day as he wanted exposure and an angry reaction. Meanwhile, the art of dialogue and conversation, something a university should excel at, took a loss.

Welcome to the Big Tech Censorship Guild.

Michels prevailed in the primary by aligning his candidacy with Trump, ideologically and stylistically.

From his efforts to eviscerate the state’s successful manufacturing tax incentive to his extreme climate change agenda, the liberal governor’s policies have shown he’s no friend of Wisconsin manufacturers and the hundreds of thousands of people they employ.

Tony Evers is choosing to release violent criminals. He could stop it, but he is not doing so because he wants it to happen. He wants violent felons to be released into our communities because social justice politics is more important to him than victims and their families.

Universal vouchers, proposed by gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels, would crack the foundation upon which our state was built — already weakened by decades of Republican-induced cuts.

There is nothing in his background to indicate that he would be a problem solver. And his volatile temperament disqualifies him. Congress is supposed to solve problems. Extremists like Van Orden just bloviate.

Republican U.S. Senator’s push to ‘save’ it would actually destroy the program.

Mandela Barnes could do well to cut a TV ad expressing his love of country and optimism — but he can’t redact his own recent history.

Despite what he might claim, Ron Johnson has spent the last twelve years working against small scale farmers, choosing to side with the large agricultural companies driving us out of business.

As I travel around in this intensely political season, talking about the relationships between rural Americans and Mexican workers, I see their stories, more and more, as an antidote to our divisive politics.

Polls keep suggesting a close election and that voters don’t take seriously enough the threat to democracy and basic voting rights the Democrats keep talking about.

Milwaukee’s rise in violent crime coincides with the denigration and depletion of the thin blue line.

A candidate themself should never, ever belittle, demean, or devalue citizens who show support and offer to volunteer for a campaign. To do so is seriously shallow.