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The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at violent crime in Milwaukee and consider how it may impact the Republican National Committee’s decision whether to host its 2024 convention in the city. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
They need to be called out for the destruction they’re wreaking on America and its democratic values.
The massacre in Uvalde has rightfully dominated headlines for the past week, but the sad reality is that more than three times more people are murdered in America every single day.
If we’ve learned anything from the supply chain shortages in the last few months, much less the last two years, it’s that we need to encourage production of goods in the United States.
Officials at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services have created a fraudulent document as part of an apparent cover-up regarding its investigation into the eviction of my then-97-year-old mother from a senior care facility last fall.
The problem: Those issues aren’t going away.
We now rely on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, to make the next commissioner appointment, so the direction and future of the Wisconsin Elections Commission remains in flux.
No one’s religion should control access to reproductive health care.
Ultimately, we believe in the rights of the individual. We know that Americans should be able to start a business, raise a family, and live their lives without government interference.
Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Dean Knudson abruptly resigned last week.
Republicans in Wisconsin are in an endless cycle of demonizing, demeaning and defunding Milwaukee. Hosting the RNC here would be a tough pill to swallow. But the political reality might demand it.
As Wisconsin lawmakers seek answers to the shocking revelations of abuse and neglect at a southeast Wisconsin veterans nursing home, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has been conspicuously quiet.
If the Republicans get their way, older people will be hung out to dry.
Nuclear energy need not compete with renewables, but it can augment them in a world that needs both climate remedies and reliable power.
State’s public utilities exploring the use of nuclear energy.
When an unbroken chain of acceptable violence leaves us numb.
If Gov. Tony Evers and the Democratic candidates for the Wisconsin Legislature want to know how to take on the grotesque subservience of Republican legislative leaders to the dictates of the gun lobby, they should take a lesson from Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Mass shootings will not stop by outlawing the public sale of assault rifles, but could some lives be saved?
We invite our area chambers, industry associations and business owners across the state to actively engage in driving high voter participation and civic engagement.
By now, the health emergency has little to do with it.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at violent crime in Milwaukee and consider how it may impact the Republican National Committee’s decision whether to host its 2024 convention in the city. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
They need to be called out for the destruction they’re wreaking on America and its democratic values.
The massacre in Uvalde has rightfully dominated headlines for the past week, but the sad reality is that more than three times more people are murdered in America every single day.
If we’ve learned anything from the supply chain shortages in the last few months, much less the last two years, it’s that we need to encourage production of goods in the United States.
Officials at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services have created a fraudulent document as part of an apparent cover-up regarding its investigation into the eviction of my then-97-year-old mother from a senior care facility last fall.
The problem: Those issues aren’t going away.
We now rely on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, to make the next commissioner appointment, so the direction and future of the Wisconsin Elections Commission remains in flux.
No one’s religion should control access to reproductive health care.
Ultimately, we believe in the rights of the individual. We know that Americans should be able to start a business, raise a family, and live their lives without government interference.
Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Dean Knudson abruptly resigned last week.
Republicans in Wisconsin are in an endless cycle of demonizing, demeaning and defunding Milwaukee. Hosting the RNC here would be a tough pill to swallow. But the political reality might demand it.
As Wisconsin lawmakers seek answers to the shocking revelations of abuse and neglect at a southeast Wisconsin veterans nursing home, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has been conspicuously quiet.
If the Republicans get their way, older people will be hung out to dry.
Nuclear energy need not compete with renewables, but it can augment them in a world that needs both climate remedies and reliable power.
State’s public utilities exploring the use of nuclear energy.
When an unbroken chain of acceptable violence leaves us numb.
If Gov. Tony Evers and the Democratic candidates for the Wisconsin Legislature want to know how to take on the grotesque subservience of Republican legislative leaders to the dictates of the gun lobby, they should take a lesson from Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Mass shootings will not stop by outlawing the public sale of assault rifles, but could some lives be saved?
We invite our area chambers, industry associations and business owners across the state to actively engage in driving high voter participation and civic engagement.
By now, the health emergency has little to do with it.