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As I sit down to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, I will not only be thankful to enjoy the day with family and friends, I will also appreciate the people who grew that food, who raised those animals and for the animals who gave their lives so I can sustain mine.
Though partisan differences may divide in Madison, through it all, there is much to be thankful for this holiday season.
This Thanksgiving holiday, I am asking everyone to truly take stock of their blessings.
On this Thanksgiving weekend, I’ve got three things to be thankful for, as far as the pro-democracy prospects go here in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin hit another deadly record in 2021, with more than 1,400 people dying of opioid overdoses.
A big battle is brewing over what’s best for kids.
The Legislature ought to allocate $1 billion of the surplus to rebuild UW infrastructure, attract and retain quality faculty and staff and make two- and four-year degrees more affordable to students.
It wasn’t so long ago that Democrats saw America’s growing Hispanic population as their ticket to long-term majorities.
Republicans who hold the purse strings are putting Big Government Gov. Tony Evers on notice: The money belongs to taxpayers, not for growing his bloated bureaucracy.
There were a number of bright spots for Wisconsin Republicans.
Legislative Republicans must tie funding to performance and force the closure of failing schools.
Harsh vitriol from right-wing continues.
Instead of wasting time and energy on phony issues like “stolen election,” the leading lights in the political world need to elevate health care economics to front and center. There are answers out there.
A national view brought home.
A stand of old-growth hemlock forest in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Upper Michigan covers 35,000 acres, with some trees up to 400 years old, never logged.
Parent company Gannett announces 6% staff reduction, coming on heels of November layoffs at Milwaukee paper.
No matter how you slice it, Wisconsin Democrats have a rural problem.
Now that Democrat Tony Evers has been reelected governor, it will be interesting to see if an even more Republican state Legislature will work with him, or even try to play fair.
The policies and the people that turned the red wave pink.
La Follette’s defeat of Loudenbeck was a big deal for Wisconsin democracy. It was also a noteworthy historical accomplishment for La Follette, who went into the 2022 election as one of the longest-serving statewide constitutional officers in American history.
As I sit down to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, I will not only be thankful to enjoy the day with family and friends, I will also appreciate the people who grew that food, who raised those animals and for the animals who gave their lives so I can sustain mine.
Though partisan differences may divide in Madison, through it all, there is much to be thankful for this holiday season.
This Thanksgiving holiday, I am asking everyone to truly take stock of their blessings.
On this Thanksgiving weekend, I’ve got three things to be thankful for, as far as the pro-democracy prospects go here in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin hit another deadly record in 2021, with more than 1,400 people dying of opioid overdoses.
A big battle is brewing over what’s best for kids.
The Legislature ought to allocate $1 billion of the surplus to rebuild UW infrastructure, attract and retain quality faculty and staff and make two- and four-year degrees more affordable to students.
It wasn’t so long ago that Democrats saw America’s growing Hispanic population as their ticket to long-term majorities.
Republicans who hold the purse strings are putting Big Government Gov. Tony Evers on notice: The money belongs to taxpayers, not for growing his bloated bureaucracy.
There were a number of bright spots for Wisconsin Republicans.
Legislative Republicans must tie funding to performance and force the closure of failing schools.
Harsh vitriol from right-wing continues.
Instead of wasting time and energy on phony issues like “stolen election,” the leading lights in the political world need to elevate health care economics to front and center. There are answers out there.
A national view brought home.
A stand of old-growth hemlock forest in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Upper Michigan covers 35,000 acres, with some trees up to 400 years old, never logged.
Parent company Gannett announces 6% staff reduction, coming on heels of November layoffs at Milwaukee paper.
No matter how you slice it, Wisconsin Democrats have a rural problem.
Now that Democrat Tony Evers has been reelected governor, it will be interesting to see if an even more Republican state Legislature will work with him, or even try to play fair.
The policies and the people that turned the red wave pink.
La Follette’s defeat of Loudenbeck was a big deal for Wisconsin democracy. It was also a noteworthy historical accomplishment for La Follette, who went into the 2022 election as one of the longest-serving statewide constitutional officers in American history.
