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Shirley Chisholm began her groundbreaking presidential campaign 50 years ago, with a late January announcement of candidacy and early February forays into states that had never before seen the name of a Black woman on the ballot for a statewide office — let alone the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
In joining the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s three liberals once more, “swing vote” Justice Brian Hagedorn agreed that absentee ballot boxes may be used through the Feb. 15 primary elections — even if they are a violation of state election law.
An introduction to the historical devaluation of Black people.
His push to give tax rebate to taxpayers was first used by Lee Dreyfus to win office.
Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson keeps insisting that he’s never lied about anything, but there he was again last week holding another forum designed to spread disinformation about COVID vaccines.
The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead and Scott Manley of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce join Badger Institute President Mike Nichols to discuss the challenges posed by Wisconsin’s tax structure as well as reforms – income tax elimination, flat tax adoption, bracket consolidation – that would benefit Wisconsin residents, grow the economy and attract more people to the state.
Bob Donovan is our one chance to reverse course.
Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Lee Enterprises, which owns the Wisconsin State Journal as well as other dailies and weeklies in more than 70 other markets.
City redistricting shouldn’t overlook Hispanic community. But Muslims, too, deserve consideration.
The U.S. is right to help diplomatically safeguard Ukraine, but avoid a wider war.
Does Milwaukee need more money for police and prevention?
For the second time in as many days and third time in two weeks, a law enforcement officer has been shot on the streets of Milwaukee and, for what seems like the hundredth time in the past six months, the suspect was free on bail even though he faces multiple open felony cases that include charges of bail jumping.
There’s a line where cluelessness gives way to deliberately dangerous political posturing, and Johnson crossed it last week when he crashed a clown car full of quacks into the public health debate.
In the state legislature, I listened to either ill-informed comments or intentional misrepresentations about critical race theory. I couldn’t help but note that it all felt like the making of a new version of the Willie Horton ad.
UW-Madison gets too much of state funding, campuses like UWM get too little.
More parents are waking up and taking control of their children’s education, medical health.
President Joe Biden announced his renewed commitment to nominating the first Black woman ever to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is long overdue and would fundamentally change the makeup of the Supreme Court for decades to come.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their advice for what Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature should do with Wisconsin’s projected $3.8 billion surplus. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers push popular center-left policies and don’t seek power by dividing us, yet they have tepid poll numbers. Here’s why.
Regardless of which political party one calls home, there was a degree of understanding across Wisconsin about how Kevin Nicholson felt being instructed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to stem any notion of seeking the Republican nomination for governor this August.
Shirley Chisholm began her groundbreaking presidential campaign 50 years ago, with a late January announcement of candidacy and early February forays into states that had never before seen the name of a Black woman on the ballot for a statewide office — let alone the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
In joining the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s three liberals once more, “swing vote” Justice Brian Hagedorn agreed that absentee ballot boxes may be used through the Feb. 15 primary elections — even if they are a violation of state election law.
An introduction to the historical devaluation of Black people.
His push to give tax rebate to taxpayers was first used by Lee Dreyfus to win office.
Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson keeps insisting that he’s never lied about anything, but there he was again last week holding another forum designed to spread disinformation about COVID vaccines.
The Tax Foundation’s Katherine Loughead and Scott Manley of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce join Badger Institute President Mike Nichols to discuss the challenges posed by Wisconsin’s tax structure as well as reforms – income tax elimination, flat tax adoption, bracket consolidation – that would benefit Wisconsin residents, grow the economy and attract more people to the state.
Bob Donovan is our one chance to reverse course.
Alden Global Capital is making a hostile takeover attempt to acquire a controlling interest in Lee Enterprises, which owns the Wisconsin State Journal as well as other dailies and weeklies in more than 70 other markets.
City redistricting shouldn’t overlook Hispanic community. But Muslims, too, deserve consideration.
The U.S. is right to help diplomatically safeguard Ukraine, but avoid a wider war.
Does Milwaukee need more money for police and prevention?
For the second time in as many days and third time in two weeks, a law enforcement officer has been shot on the streets of Milwaukee and, for what seems like the hundredth time in the past six months, the suspect was free on bail even though he faces multiple open felony cases that include charges of bail jumping.
There’s a line where cluelessness gives way to deliberately dangerous political posturing, and Johnson crossed it last week when he crashed a clown car full of quacks into the public health debate.
In the state legislature, I listened to either ill-informed comments or intentional misrepresentations about critical race theory. I couldn’t help but note that it all felt like the making of a new version of the Willie Horton ad.
UW-Madison gets too much of state funding, campuses like UWM get too little.
More parents are waking up and taking control of their children’s education, medical health.
President Joe Biden announced his renewed commitment to nominating the first Black woman ever to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is long overdue and would fundamentally change the makeup of the Supreme Court for decades to come.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their advice for what Gov. Tony Evers and the Legislature should do with Wisconsin’s projected $3.8 billion surplus. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers push popular center-left policies and don’t seek power by dividing us, yet they have tepid poll numbers. Here’s why.
Regardless of which political party one calls home, there was a degree of understanding across Wisconsin about how Kevin Nicholson felt being instructed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to stem any notion of seeking the Republican nomination for governor this August.
