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As motorists continue to confront record-high gas prices, front-runners — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, and Wisconsin State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — support suspending the federal gas tax.
Barnes had the temerity to tell an audience in Portage last August, “Imagine being so ashamed of how we got to this place in America that you outlaw teaching it.”
Many of us are in despair right now over the direction of our country.
Assault-style weapons simply aren’t used often enough for banning them to have any real impact on gun murders. When they were banned, the number of mass shootings in America went up and, somewhat paradoxically, became deadlier.
Where does that leave Milwaukee?
We are all harmed when basic fairness, decency, and commitment to the public interest become victims, once again, to unchecked political power. The decision contributes to the further breakdown of our system of representative government.
We must teach our children how to treat people and how to transcend prejudice and bias and embrace fairness and civility.
Evidence of declining interest in summer jobs deserves parental response.
The state Supreme Court’s fake nonpartisan pretense will be fully revealed in the spring.
The U.S. Supreme Court is stripping back the power of government and returning it to the people.
In a crowded Democratic field, Nelson stood out to me because of his consistency in pushing for progressive policies.
The roles of some of our organizations have changed, but you can still be guided to safe and legal abortion clinics in neighboring states.
The evolving tech transition at Wisconsin’s DWD has attracted notice from similar agencies in other states.
These so-called lower-tier candidates will be mostly ignored in election coverage stories and most, if not all, will be banned from debates. That’s a shame, as most voters will not hear from these candidates and their views on important issues.
On the same day that Wisconsin certified its 10 electoral votes for Joe Biden, 10 Republicans met secretly in another part of the state Capitol and cast the state’s votes for Trump, forwarding them to the National Archives and others.
Americans’ obsession with mass murderers has been inspiring mass murderers since Columbine.
The heavily armed white suspect in the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park, while fleeing from police, was calmly arrested using de-escalation techniques but an unarmed black man, stopped for a minor traffic violation in Akron was shot 60 times for fleeing from police.
The AR 15 has one mission, and only one. To kill people. Many of them. In mere seconds. The AR-15 should be outright banned.
Recent high court decision latest of several rulings reducing governor’s power.
While President Joe Biden and Gov. Tony Evers may try to sell voters on a delusional message about the “booming” economy and that a recession “isn’t inevitable,” Wisconsin businesses don’t share that optimism, according to a new survey.
As motorists continue to confront record-high gas prices, front-runners — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, and Wisconsin State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski — support suspending the federal gas tax.
Barnes had the temerity to tell an audience in Portage last August, “Imagine being so ashamed of how we got to this place in America that you outlaw teaching it.”
Many of us are in despair right now over the direction of our country.
Assault-style weapons simply aren’t used often enough for banning them to have any real impact on gun murders. When they were banned, the number of mass shootings in America went up and, somewhat paradoxically, became deadlier.
Where does that leave Milwaukee?
We are all harmed when basic fairness, decency, and commitment to the public interest become victims, once again, to unchecked political power. The decision contributes to the further breakdown of our system of representative government.
We must teach our children how to treat people and how to transcend prejudice and bias and embrace fairness and civility.
Evidence of declining interest in summer jobs deserves parental response.
The state Supreme Court’s fake nonpartisan pretense will be fully revealed in the spring.
The U.S. Supreme Court is stripping back the power of government and returning it to the people.
In a crowded Democratic field, Nelson stood out to me because of his consistency in pushing for progressive policies.
The roles of some of our organizations have changed, but you can still be guided to safe and legal abortion clinics in neighboring states.
The evolving tech transition at Wisconsin’s DWD has attracted notice from similar agencies in other states.
These so-called lower-tier candidates will be mostly ignored in election coverage stories and most, if not all, will be banned from debates. That’s a shame, as most voters will not hear from these candidates and their views on important issues.
On the same day that Wisconsin certified its 10 electoral votes for Joe Biden, 10 Republicans met secretly in another part of the state Capitol and cast the state’s votes for Trump, forwarding them to the National Archives and others.
Americans’ obsession with mass murderers has been inspiring mass murderers since Columbine.
The heavily armed white suspect in the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park, while fleeing from police, was calmly arrested using de-escalation techniques but an unarmed black man, stopped for a minor traffic violation in Akron was shot 60 times for fleeing from police.
The AR 15 has one mission, and only one. To kill people. Many of them. In mere seconds. The AR-15 should be outright banned.
Recent high court decision latest of several rulings reducing governor’s power.
While President Joe Biden and Gov. Tony Evers may try to sell voters on a delusional message about the “booming” economy and that a recession “isn’t inevitable,” Wisconsin businesses don’t share that optimism, according to a new survey.
