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Equity, whether in women’s pay or laws on marriage equality, is a relatively new thing. We have to fight for every win and leave everything on the field, to ensure that we keep moving the ball forward in the right for all to be equally valued and respected.
Policymakers in Wisconsin must think about what lies ahead on the climate calendar. More people will likely be tempted to move here or return home as conditions change. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. It shouldn’t be an unplanned thing.
Why is Wisconsin dilly dallying? Higher education is our future. Use the surplus to fund it.
Agency spending would increase by $8.2 billion over next two years.
The Evers administration plans to ask state environmental officials again for permission to develop groundwater standards.
At a time when Tammy Baldwin was uniting Democrats and Republicans in support of marriage equality, he voted “no.”
Elections are about the future, not about the past. Proven problem-solvers won big in the November elections. Candidates who were perceived as too focused on the last election did not. There is a lesson there for the future.
In the past several years in this country we have witnessed an alarming rise in hateful words turn into violent actions. This is not a novel occurrence as some speculate. America has been here before.
An investigation into Wisconsin’s 25-year-old fetal protection statute
The many benefits of spending your shopping dollars at locally owned businesses are many, not the least of which is that each dollar you spend at an independent business returns three times more money to the local economy than one spent at a chain owned by some far-off corporation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at the upcoming spring 2023 Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Republicans are pushing this. Is it a good idea?
Regardless of the Georgia outcome, we’ll have a divided federal government for at least the next two years.
We got a glimpse this week at how these modern-day Republicans are going to do everything but govern when they take over the House of Representatives in January.
The city of Racine’s use of its “polling booth on wheels” violates Wisconsin election law, charges a lawsuit filed Thursday by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty in Racine County Court.
The midterms were a reprieve but the fight goes on.
Campaign ads can honestly support candidates without publishing misinformation and disinformation about the opposing candidate. Surely the Governor and the Legislature can work together to end the nastiness that has taken hold of our elections.
Just a day before Lamar Jefferson allegedly committed attempted murder and terrorized State Street, he was walking out of the Dane County Jail with a disorderly conduct citation even though he threatened to kill police officers and the man who had punched him earlier in the day on November 22nd.
The people of Wisconsin have made their voices resoundingly clear. Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support progressive, pragmatic, and common-sense policies that make our communities safer, individuals healthier, and people more prosperous.
Gov. Tony Evers has radicalized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and things look to only get worse in his next term, conservative leaders predict.
Equity, whether in women’s pay or laws on marriage equality, is a relatively new thing. We have to fight for every win and leave everything on the field, to ensure that we keep moving the ball forward in the right for all to be equally valued and respected.
Policymakers in Wisconsin must think about what lies ahead on the climate calendar. More people will likely be tempted to move here or return home as conditions change. That might be a good thing or a bad thing. It shouldn’t be an unplanned thing.
Why is Wisconsin dilly dallying? Higher education is our future. Use the surplus to fund it.
Agency spending would increase by $8.2 billion over next two years.
The Evers administration plans to ask state environmental officials again for permission to develop groundwater standards.
At a time when Tammy Baldwin was uniting Democrats and Republicans in support of marriage equality, he voted “no.”
Elections are about the future, not about the past. Proven problem-solvers won big in the November elections. Candidates who were perceived as too focused on the last election did not. There is a lesson there for the future.
In the past several years in this country we have witnessed an alarming rise in hateful words turn into violent actions. This is not a novel occurrence as some speculate. America has been here before.
An investigation into Wisconsin’s 25-year-old fetal protection statute
The many benefits of spending your shopping dollars at locally owned businesses are many, not the least of which is that each dollar you spend at an independent business returns three times more money to the local economy than one spent at a chain owned by some far-off corporation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at the upcoming spring 2023 Supreme Court election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Republicans are pushing this. Is it a good idea?
Regardless of the Georgia outcome, we’ll have a divided federal government for at least the next two years.
We got a glimpse this week at how these modern-day Republicans are going to do everything but govern when they take over the House of Representatives in January.
The city of Racine’s use of its “polling booth on wheels” violates Wisconsin election law, charges a lawsuit filed Thursday by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty in Racine County Court.
The midterms were a reprieve but the fight goes on.
Campaign ads can honestly support candidates without publishing misinformation and disinformation about the opposing candidate. Surely the Governor and the Legislature can work together to end the nastiness that has taken hold of our elections.
Just a day before Lamar Jefferson allegedly committed attempted murder and terrorized State Street, he was walking out of the Dane County Jail with a disorderly conduct citation even though he threatened to kill police officers and the man who had punched him earlier in the day on November 22nd.
The people of Wisconsin have made their voices resoundingly clear. Wisconsinites overwhelmingly support progressive, pragmatic, and common-sense policies that make our communities safer, individuals healthier, and people more prosperous.
Gov. Tony Evers has radicalized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and things look to only get worse in his next term, conservative leaders predict.
