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If we are going to fix the huge issues we are facing around income inequality, lack of affordable housing, creating safe communities and more, regular people can’t sit on the sidelines.
While Gov. Tony Evers and his fellow Democrats gushed over First Lady Jill Biden’s visit to Wisconsin Wednesday, a survivor of the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre had no time for the political “photo-op.”
We don’t track sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records in a systematic way, and because of that our knowledge to target interventions is limited.
The 2020 census confirmed what many already knew: Madison is not only the driving force behind Wisconsin’s economy, it is also growing faster than other large cities in the state.
Her run for secretary of state part of Republican effort to overhaul election laws, oversight.
Republican justices ruled last month that the 2011 gerrymandered maps will essentially remain in place through the year 2032.
President Joe Biden’s costly Build Back Better plan calls for hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents to badger taxpayers, even as the tax collector has yet to process millions of tax returns.
In Wisconsin, it is absolutely time to prioritize the impact that hunters and anglers have on our state. That’s why it is time to pass the Wisconsin Sporting Freedom Act.
One of the shifts taking place in equity work and conversations is a shift away from strictly talking about racism to include much more inclusive types of marginalization and discrimination.
The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict has deadly implications for states such as Wisconsin that allow the open carrying of firearms.
We’ve been calling it the I-94 East-West project all along, but the “main driver” of the project’s cost is the Stadium Interchange.
Few people have had as great an impact on Madison and Dane County as has R. Richard “Dick” Wagner, who unexpectedly passed away Monday at the age of 78.
Last week the U.S. Dept. of Education announced that part of Wisconsin’s funds were being withheld because of the political strings attached by the Legislature, tying the money to in-person learning.
If you’re a Democrat, there’s not much to look forward to in 2022.
It should come as little surprise that liberal Gov. Tony Evers appointed Lori Kornblum to Wisconsin’s District II Court of Appeals. She’s got years of experience as a prosecutor in the “progressive justice” laboratory of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.
The REINS Act caused the DNR to abandon plans to craft nitrate standards as recommended by DHS, even though a growing body of evidence ties nitrates in drinking water to a host of health concerns, including colon, ovarian, thyroid, kidney and bladder cancers.
We need more journalists like Chris Wallace — tough on both sides like a real journalist should be. Do we really need more shills like Laura Ingraham and Rachel Maddow?
The public health of all Wisconsinites depends upon our collective commitment to providing care to everyone in need.
What if the U.S. and China and all the rest were to devote even half their expenditures to nonviolence and peace?
Voters gave Democrats control of the White House, the Senate and the House last year. That should have been a mandate for change. But when it comes to defense spending, the change is for the worse.
If we are going to fix the huge issues we are facing around income inequality, lack of affordable housing, creating safe communities and more, regular people can’t sit on the sidelines.
While Gov. Tony Evers and his fellow Democrats gushed over First Lady Jill Biden’s visit to Wisconsin Wednesday, a survivor of the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre had no time for the political “photo-op.”
We don’t track sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records in a systematic way, and because of that our knowledge to target interventions is limited.
The 2020 census confirmed what many already knew: Madison is not only the driving force behind Wisconsin’s economy, it is also growing faster than other large cities in the state.
Her run for secretary of state part of Republican effort to overhaul election laws, oversight.
Republican justices ruled last month that the 2011 gerrymandered maps will essentially remain in place through the year 2032.
President Joe Biden’s costly Build Back Better plan calls for hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents to badger taxpayers, even as the tax collector has yet to process millions of tax returns.
In Wisconsin, it is absolutely time to prioritize the impact that hunters and anglers have on our state. That’s why it is time to pass the Wisconsin Sporting Freedom Act.
One of the shifts taking place in equity work and conversations is a shift away from strictly talking about racism to include much more inclusive types of marginalization and discrimination.
The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict has deadly implications for states such as Wisconsin that allow the open carrying of firearms.
We’ve been calling it the I-94 East-West project all along, but the “main driver” of the project’s cost is the Stadium Interchange.
Few people have had as great an impact on Madison and Dane County as has R. Richard “Dick” Wagner, who unexpectedly passed away Monday at the age of 78.
Last week the U.S. Dept. of Education announced that part of Wisconsin’s funds were being withheld because of the political strings attached by the Legislature, tying the money to in-person learning.
If you’re a Democrat, there’s not much to look forward to in 2022.
It should come as little surprise that liberal Gov. Tony Evers appointed Lori Kornblum to Wisconsin’s District II Court of Appeals. She’s got years of experience as a prosecutor in the “progressive justice” laboratory of Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.
The REINS Act caused the DNR to abandon plans to craft nitrate standards as recommended by DHS, even though a growing body of evidence ties nitrates in drinking water to a host of health concerns, including colon, ovarian, thyroid, kidney and bladder cancers.
We need more journalists like Chris Wallace — tough on both sides like a real journalist should be. Do we really need more shills like Laura Ingraham and Rachel Maddow?
The public health of all Wisconsinites depends upon our collective commitment to providing care to everyone in need.
What if the U.S. and China and all the rest were to devote even half their expenditures to nonviolence and peace?
Voters gave Democrats control of the White House, the Senate and the House last year. That should have been a mandate for change. But when it comes to defense spending, the change is for the worse.
