
Lorin Robinson: The Luddites were right; we, and the earth, are victims of our machines
While humans get an A plus for innovativeness and creativity, we earn an F for foreseeing or dealing with the consequences of our creations.
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While humans get an A plus for innovativeness and creativity, we earn an F for foreseeing or dealing with the consequences of our creations.
A good number of school boards in Wisconsin have acted like responsible adults by requiring masks at a time when the delta variant is pushing infections to heartbreaking higher levels.
Waukesha School Board members have been hit with a barrage of hostile communications, including death threats, after distorted media headlines declared the district was ending a free school meal program, multiple sources say.
Government intervention is a blunt instrument for enforcement, one preferable to avoid. But too often, such interventions are brought on when we fail to act responsibly as citizens.
Wide open, lots of candidates, no obvious favorites and so much at stake.
There is no way to escape the enormity of the moment we are living in as the nation withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. The national angst was underscored with live coverage Sunday morning as 13 dead American soldiers returned in caskets to Dover Air Force Base.
An Indian American who grew up in Brookfield, Olikara says he hopes to attract liberal Democrats who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, “politically homeless Republicans” and “disillusioned, disaffected independents.”
In the year since Blake was shot, state government has sat on its hands.
Every House Republican voted last week against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Drafted in response to the overwhelming frustrations over increased thefts of catalytic converters, SB 408 seeks to reign in and regulate scrap dealer purchases of catalytic converters.
Biden and I are committed to working for all Americans and all Wisconsinites — in every neighborhood, in every town, and in every political party.
Unvaccinated Wisconsinites will not be persuaded to get a shot by disparagement. Respectful engagement is needed.
We should not leave until every American citizen – and every person who fought with us during the past 20 years – is safely out of the country. We don’t leave people behind.
As Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy continues to take in Afghan refugees, serious questions remain about just who’s arriving at the U.S. Army installation.
Back in 1962 when I first joined the staff at The Capital Times, there was absolutely no legal gambling in Wisconsin.
The exits of two Democratic Party veterans—one leading the state’s largest city and the other advocating for all or parts of 18 agriculture-dominated western Wisconsin counties—clears a path for the next generation of party leaders in both regions.
Yes, the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to redistrict after the 10-year census. Yet our Founding Fathers would be aghast to see how that solemn duty has been defaced for partisan advantage.
The true test of our reforms is that they are still working — a decade after we enacted them. If common-sense conservative ideas can work in a blue state like Wisconsin, they can work anywhere.
Wisconsin has always led the nation in building on the promise of tomorrow.
Wisconsin’s roads still rate an abysmal D+ coming up on three years into Evers’ term, according to the latest national assessment.
While humans get an A plus for innovativeness and creativity, we earn an F for foreseeing or dealing with the consequences of our creations.
A good number of school boards in Wisconsin have acted like responsible adults by requiring masks at a time when the delta variant is pushing infections to heartbreaking higher levels.
Waukesha School Board members have been hit with a barrage of hostile communications, including death threats, after distorted media headlines declared the district was ending a free school meal program, multiple sources say.
Government intervention is a blunt instrument for enforcement, one preferable to avoid. But too often, such interventions are brought on when we fail to act responsibly as citizens.
Wide open, lots of candidates, no obvious favorites and so much at stake.
There is no way to escape the enormity of the moment we are living in as the nation withdraws from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. The national angst was underscored with live coverage Sunday morning as 13 dead American soldiers returned in caskets to Dover Air Force Base.
An Indian American who grew up in Brookfield, Olikara says he hopes to attract liberal Democrats who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, “politically homeless Republicans” and “disillusioned, disaffected independents.”
In the year since Blake was shot, state government has sat on its hands.
Every House Republican voted last week against the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Drafted in response to the overwhelming frustrations over increased thefts of catalytic converters, SB 408 seeks to reign in and regulate scrap dealer purchases of catalytic converters.
Biden and I are committed to working for all Americans and all Wisconsinites — in every neighborhood, in every town, and in every political party.
Unvaccinated Wisconsinites will not be persuaded to get a shot by disparagement. Respectful engagement is needed.
We should not leave until every American citizen – and every person who fought with us during the past 20 years – is safely out of the country. We don’t leave people behind.
As Wisconsin’s Fort McCoy continues to take in Afghan refugees, serious questions remain about just who’s arriving at the U.S. Army installation.
Back in 1962 when I first joined the staff at The Capital Times, there was absolutely no legal gambling in Wisconsin.
The exits of two Democratic Party veterans—one leading the state’s largest city and the other advocating for all or parts of 18 agriculture-dominated western Wisconsin counties—clears a path for the next generation of party leaders in both regions.
Yes, the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to redistrict after the 10-year census. Yet our Founding Fathers would be aghast to see how that solemn duty has been defaced for partisan advantage.
The true test of our reforms is that they are still working — a decade after we enacted them. If common-sense conservative ideas can work in a blue state like Wisconsin, they can work anywhere.
Wisconsin has always led the nation in building on the promise of tomorrow.
Wisconsin’s roads still rate an abysmal D+ coming up on three years into Evers’ term, according to the latest national assessment.