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For 111 agonizing minutes Wednesday afternoon, President Biden bumbled and stumbled, bloviated and obfuscated, and just generally screwed up so colossally that his press team spent much of Thursday doing damage control. It was the perfect metaphor for Biden’s first year in office.
Alex Lasry picked a bad time to roll out a campaign ad insisting he’d “stand up to China.”
With the annualized inflation rate hitting 7 percent at the end of 2021, the highest rate since 1982, an economy already troubled by the pandemic, supply-chain troubles and workforce shortages faces a challenge hardly talked about a year ago.
Don Smiley gets total compensation of 1.19 million in 2019 and $1.29 million in 2020.
We’re once again witnessing what happens when we pay legislators enough money so they can spend all their days in the state Capitol.
WEDC board member’s biz benefits from Evers’ grant.
Seeing a true legacy that heroification has kept long hidden.
Last year, as a newly elected legislator, she worked with state Rep. Kristina Shelton, D-Green Bay, to develop an Economic Justice Bill of Rights, which they introduced with almost two dozen Assembly cosponsors and six senators.
I think I’ve hit on Pres. Joe Biden’s fundamental problem: he was never a mayor. When you’ve been a mayor of a liberal city you learn one thing right out of the gate: the left is never, ever satisfied.
Despite an improved score for MPS, many problems remain.
Bills moving through both houses of the Legislature, critics say, would bar an increasingly popular free-market way for employers to save on expensive specialty drugs.
Government broadband boondoggle unnecessary and a huge risk for property taxpayers
Johnson’s reversal is a reminder that politicians seldom go willingly.
Local governments still are wearing the handcuffs that Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators slapped on them a decade ago. Those handcuffs prohibit local governments from raising property taxes beyond the rate of new growth.
Christian religious leaders grasp science and strongly urge vaccinations.
Agard refuses to give up on the fight for science, common sense and the truth.
Turns out, as it always does when you look at where federal tax dollars end up in this country, Wisconsin is bringing up the tail end in the scramble for COVID cash.
While we may have disagreed with many of his policies, there was no question that he had the best interests of Wisconsin citizens at heart.
If climate change is a critical issue for the members of our society who make up a significant and growing portion of the workforce and who will soon constitute a majority of the electorate, why aren’t businesses and politicians doing more to address it?
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission rescind its guidance that permitted the widespread use of drop boxes and the practice of ballot harvesting in the 2020 presidential election.
For 111 agonizing minutes Wednesday afternoon, President Biden bumbled and stumbled, bloviated and obfuscated, and just generally screwed up so colossally that his press team spent much of Thursday doing damage control. It was the perfect metaphor for Biden’s first year in office.
Alex Lasry picked a bad time to roll out a campaign ad insisting he’d “stand up to China.”
With the annualized inflation rate hitting 7 percent at the end of 2021, the highest rate since 1982, an economy already troubled by the pandemic, supply-chain troubles and workforce shortages faces a challenge hardly talked about a year ago.
Don Smiley gets total compensation of 1.19 million in 2019 and $1.29 million in 2020.
We’re once again witnessing what happens when we pay legislators enough money so they can spend all their days in the state Capitol.
WEDC board member’s biz benefits from Evers’ grant.
Seeing a true legacy that heroification has kept long hidden.
Last year, as a newly elected legislator, she worked with state Rep. Kristina Shelton, D-Green Bay, to develop an Economic Justice Bill of Rights, which they introduced with almost two dozen Assembly cosponsors and six senators.
I think I’ve hit on Pres. Joe Biden’s fundamental problem: he was never a mayor. When you’ve been a mayor of a liberal city you learn one thing right out of the gate: the left is never, ever satisfied.
Despite an improved score for MPS, many problems remain.
Bills moving through both houses of the Legislature, critics say, would bar an increasingly popular free-market way for employers to save on expensive specialty drugs.
Government broadband boondoggle unnecessary and a huge risk for property taxpayers
Johnson’s reversal is a reminder that politicians seldom go willingly.
Local governments still are wearing the handcuffs that Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators slapped on them a decade ago. Those handcuffs prohibit local governments from raising property taxes beyond the rate of new growth.
Christian religious leaders grasp science and strongly urge vaccinations.
Agard refuses to give up on the fight for science, common sense and the truth.
Turns out, as it always does when you look at where federal tax dollars end up in this country, Wisconsin is bringing up the tail end in the scramble for COVID cash.
While we may have disagreed with many of his policies, there was no question that he had the best interests of Wisconsin citizens at heart.
If climate change is a critical issue for the members of our society who make up a significant and growing portion of the workforce and who will soon constitute a majority of the electorate, why aren’t businesses and politicians doing more to address it?
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission rescind its guidance that permitted the widespread use of drop boxes and the practice of ballot harvesting in the 2020 presidential election.