
Dave Cieslewicz: Options for Democrats
It might be overstating the case, but it’s not entirely implausible that the future of American democracy depends on the Democrats getting their act together.
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It might be overstating the case, but it’s not entirely implausible that the future of American democracy depends on the Democrats getting their act together.
Police report that an inordinate number of guns confiscated in Chicago are traced back to Wisconsin and Indiana.
10 years after the first concealed carry permit was issued, one in eight adults over 21 now have one.
The central focus of Gableman’s investigation—the extent to which CTCL’s activity violated Wisconsin law—has neither been litigated nor heard in either federal or state court.
UW-Milwaukee Professor Melissa Scanlan’s new book is an ambitious effort to show how cooperative business models can help mitigate climate change.
The problem is not Joe Manchin. The problem is the left.
The political games continue at Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Josh Kaul’s highly partisan Department of Justice.
The departing chancellor is a bonafide A-lister. Finding another — given the relentless interference in UW-Madison by anti-intellectual Republicans in the Legislature — will likely be extremely difficult.
The on-again off-again health restrictions forcing businesses into compliance have created daily uncertainty and anxiety. And now, the president and government are poised to punish Wisconsin businesses further by forcing them to pay higher taxes to fund a multi-trillion dollar laundry list of pie-in-the-sky liberal ideas and programs.
Election ‘investigations’ and gerrymandering are all part of the same game.
The Gableman campaign in 2008 unleashed a vicious campaign of attacks on then-Justice Louis Butler, which took cues from the “Willie Horton” ad that supporters of former President George H.W. Bush used to smear his Democratic rival, Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, in 1988.
If Evers and his show commission really wanted fair political maps they would have stuck to the principles that the commission set out when it started Evers’ redistricting charade. But they have ignored most of those principles, even ignoring the Voting Rights Act.
Senate Bill 449 awards grants to schools to provide critical incident mapping data to law enforcement agencies.
As budget debates and ARPA funding discussions heat up in Milwaukee, one thing has become crystal clear: The state has not been a good partner to its largest, most diverse city. That needs to change.
If we want to truly lift up our working class, that comes from collectively bargaining for pay increases, fair hours, better working conditions, and better benefits.
Now is the time to listen to doctors and scientists.
Gov. Tony Evers’ politically-motivated Department of Natural Resources and liberal Attorney General Josh Kaul are pulling a number of stunts to stop the conservative-led DNR Board from seeking outside legal counsel, according to board Vice Chairman Gregory Kazmierski.
The “Reaching Higher for Higher Education” package builds off of Gov. Tony Evers’ commitment to college affordability.
Distract the public with ignorant bills, then cut education funding and leave students unsafe.
To strengthen civics education, we need a Wisconsin Civics Advisory Council.
It might be overstating the case, but it’s not entirely implausible that the future of American democracy depends on the Democrats getting their act together.
Police report that an inordinate number of guns confiscated in Chicago are traced back to Wisconsin and Indiana.
10 years after the first concealed carry permit was issued, one in eight adults over 21 now have one.
The central focus of Gableman’s investigation—the extent to which CTCL’s activity violated Wisconsin law—has neither been litigated nor heard in either federal or state court.
UW-Milwaukee Professor Melissa Scanlan’s new book is an ambitious effort to show how cooperative business models can help mitigate climate change.
The problem is not Joe Manchin. The problem is the left.
The political games continue at Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General Josh Kaul’s highly partisan Department of Justice.
The departing chancellor is a bonafide A-lister. Finding another — given the relentless interference in UW-Madison by anti-intellectual Republicans in the Legislature — will likely be extremely difficult.
The on-again off-again health restrictions forcing businesses into compliance have created daily uncertainty and anxiety. And now, the president and government are poised to punish Wisconsin businesses further by forcing them to pay higher taxes to fund a multi-trillion dollar laundry list of pie-in-the-sky liberal ideas and programs.
Election ‘investigations’ and gerrymandering are all part of the same game.
The Gableman campaign in 2008 unleashed a vicious campaign of attacks on then-Justice Louis Butler, which took cues from the “Willie Horton” ad that supporters of former President George H.W. Bush used to smear his Democratic rival, Massachusetts Gov. Mike Dukakis, in 1988.
If Evers and his show commission really wanted fair political maps they would have stuck to the principles that the commission set out when it started Evers’ redistricting charade. But they have ignored most of those principles, even ignoring the Voting Rights Act.
Senate Bill 449 awards grants to schools to provide critical incident mapping data to law enforcement agencies.
As budget debates and ARPA funding discussions heat up in Milwaukee, one thing has become crystal clear: The state has not been a good partner to its largest, most diverse city. That needs to change.
If we want to truly lift up our working class, that comes from collectively bargaining for pay increases, fair hours, better working conditions, and better benefits.
Now is the time to listen to doctors and scientists.
Gov. Tony Evers’ politically-motivated Department of Natural Resources and liberal Attorney General Josh Kaul are pulling a number of stunts to stop the conservative-led DNR Board from seeking outside legal counsel, according to board Vice Chairman Gregory Kazmierski.
The “Reaching Higher for Higher Education” package builds off of Gov. Tony Evers’ commitment to college affordability.
Distract the public with ignorant bills, then cut education funding and leave students unsafe.
To strengthen civics education, we need a Wisconsin Civics Advisory Council.