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When there is a crisis, we come together. It is in our nature to be generous and charitable. But in the last few years we have become divided, and more so, although I believe, as a futurist, that we are at a turning point where this will change.
All schools offer students some kind of moral understanding; parents should have the right to choose which one.
The King Holiday is the only federal holiday designated as a day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer and actively improve our communities. His legacy, despite personal flaws, remains a reminder that each of us should stand against injustice and value our hard-won freedom.
Maybe the judge was right or wrong, but there’s really not all that much at stake here.
From epidemiology to cancer to many other human diseases and conditions, digital health data provides a link to learning more about possible causes, diagnoses and even treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider how U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s plan to run for reelection impacts other GOP candidates and races.” Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Political scientist Eitan Hersh advises those who fear for our democracy to find ways, even small ones, to act and not kvetch.
The search committee for a new University of Wisconsin System president has surfaced two candidates who look to have the chops necessary for leading the university through some turbulent times in the next five to ten years.
The government bureaucracy can be an inefficient waste of taxpayer money.
The Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that would make it law to allow prior COVID-19 infection as an alternative to vaccination for purposes of vaccine mandate requirements. This is a bad idea.
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.
When there is a crisis, we come together. It is in our nature to be generous and charitable. But in the last few years we have become divided, and more so, although I believe, as a futurist, that we are at a turning point where this will change.
All schools offer students some kind of moral understanding; parents should have the right to choose which one.
The King Holiday is the only federal holiday designated as a day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer and actively improve our communities. His legacy, despite personal flaws, remains a reminder that each of us should stand against injustice and value our hard-won freedom.
Maybe the judge was right or wrong, but there’s really not all that much at stake here.
From epidemiology to cancer to many other human diseases and conditions, digital health data provides a link to learning more about possible causes, diagnoses and even treatments.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider how U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s plan to run for reelection impacts other GOP candidates and races.” Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Political scientist Eitan Hersh advises those who fear for our democracy to find ways, even small ones, to act and not kvetch.
The search committee for a new University of Wisconsin System president has surfaced two candidates who look to have the chops necessary for leading the university through some turbulent times in the next five to ten years.
The government bureaucracy can be an inefficient waste of taxpayer money.
The Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that would make it law to allow prior COVID-19 infection as an alternative to vaccination for purposes of vaccine mandate requirements. This is a bad idea.
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.