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As Duffy, Tiffany and all Republicans know and have used to their advantage, the cost of gas is a powerful issue because it’s so easy to understand and so quickly hurts your pocketbook. And they are clearly on the wrong side of the issue.
Reports show electricity costs continued to rise into 2025, with increases of around 7% in some areas—hardly the dramatic cut Trump promised.
Had JetBlue been allowed to acquire Spirit, perhaps they would have been able to weather this financial storm. But in this present reality, consumers are left with fewer flights and higher prices.
If you are looking for an insight on why the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman, reflect back on how he went about closing eight of 13 two-year colleges across the state.
We must each be accountable for ensuring that our actions are guided by the desire to seek truth, to strive for fairness, to build a better world.
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.
Child care is fundamental to our state’s economic vitality and well-being, because without it, our local businesses — including important industries like education, health care and law enforcement — lack the workforce needed to function.
The Madison Metropolitan School District is considering a new cellphone policy that would enact a full-day ban for younger students while allowing more flexibility for high schoolers.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upped the stakes.
Some of the very same states leading the charge to weaken voting rights and diminish Black political engagement are also advancing legislation that criminalizes poverty and homelessness. There is a pattern here and it is difficult to ignore.
Both judicial panels have essentially kicked the cases back to Wisconsin Supreme Court.
In 44 other states, you can walk into an election office, eyeball voter registration records and make copies on the spot. Not in Wisconsin. Why? Because in 1993, Congress handed the state a permanent exemption. Thirty-three years later, that carve-out makes as much sense as a car phone — and it is past time to end it.
His detractors discredit the party. … What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate into an attempt to shoot down hard-working and popular party chairman Brian Schimming.
The searches for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System and the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are the two most important higher education hires in Wisconsin. Who, exactly, is speaking for the rest of Wisconsin in these searches?
Daylight is the best disinfectant to dysfunctional governance.
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All Wisconsin GOP members of Congress ignored Wisconsin doctors and bishops. But the public backlash to their enthusiastic support for the BBB prompted Wisconsin Republicans to double talk and disingenuously refer to the BBB as the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.
ICE’s tactics and actions have gone rogue; not matching the mission of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.
From the beginning of the United States, there has been tension between the executive and Congress over foreign policy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
As Duffy, Tiffany and all Republicans know and have used to their advantage, the cost of gas is a powerful issue because it’s so easy to understand and so quickly hurts your pocketbook. And they are clearly on the wrong side of the issue.
Reports show electricity costs continued to rise into 2025, with increases of around 7% in some areas—hardly the dramatic cut Trump promised.
Had JetBlue been allowed to acquire Spirit, perhaps they would have been able to weather this financial storm. But in this present reality, consumers are left with fewer flights and higher prices.
If you are looking for an insight on why the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman, reflect back on how he went about closing eight of 13 two-year colleges across the state.
We must each be accountable for ensuring that our actions are guided by the desire to seek truth, to strive for fairness, to build a better world.
The Wisconsin Department of Administration has spent nearly $2 million operating two state offices that have since 2019 been denied funding by the Legislature.
Child care is fundamental to our state’s economic vitality and well-being, because without it, our local businesses — including important industries like education, health care and law enforcement — lack the workforce needed to function.
The Madison Metropolitan School District is considering a new cellphone policy that would enact a full-day ban for younger students while allowing more flexibility for high schoolers.
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upped the stakes.
Some of the very same states leading the charge to weaken voting rights and diminish Black political engagement are also advancing legislation that criminalizes poverty and homelessness. There is a pattern here and it is difficult to ignore.
Both judicial panels have essentially kicked the cases back to Wisconsin Supreme Court.
In 44 other states, you can walk into an election office, eyeball voter registration records and make copies on the spot. Not in Wisconsin. Why? Because in 1993, Congress handed the state a permanent exemption. Thirty-three years later, that carve-out makes as much sense as a car phone — and it is past time to end it.
His detractors discredit the party. … What should be a moon-shot send-off for Tom Tiffany for governor and Eric Toney for attorney general may disintegrate into an attempt to shoot down hard-working and popular party chairman Brian Schimming.
The searches for the next president of the University of Wisconsin System and the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison are the two most important higher education hires in Wisconsin. Who, exactly, is speaking for the rest of Wisconsin in these searches?
Daylight is the best disinfectant to dysfunctional governance.
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All Wisconsin GOP members of Congress ignored Wisconsin doctors and bishops. But the public backlash to their enthusiastic support for the BBB prompted Wisconsin Republicans to double talk and disingenuously refer to the BBB as the Working Families Tax Cuts Bill.
ICE’s tactics and actions have gone rogue; not matching the mission of the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.
From the beginning of the United States, there has been tension between the executive and Congress over foreign policy.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, preview the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s upcoming state convention and discuss challenges facing the party going into the midterms. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
