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The bottom line is that 50 Republicans, aided by two Democrats, were able to thwart yet more legislation aimed at helping voters of color — just like Congresses of old were able to block civil rights legislation for decades.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a moment to reflect on the life and career of Wisconsin’s first woman lieutenant governor, Margaret Farrow. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
I found the thesis of an article on a business website utterly jarring — that some employees have decided to keep their jobs but retire in place.
People have got to realize that this Republican bomb thrower has no place in our government. He needs to be sent home to his old plastics factory as soon as possible.
Only two states have cut county funding more. Huge funding decline has hurt Milwaukee.
Wisconsin public health officials continue to adjust how they report Covid vaccine data to the public, as evidence mounts of declining vaccine efficacy, according to ongoing research at the MacIver Institute.
Politics have become so dysfunctional in Wisconsin that the Legislature has taken to simply ignoring the things people actually care about, in order to focus on wild conspiracies about how the election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Let’s measure how the two parties will fare under maps approved by state Supreme Court.
One of the most vocal opponents of reform, Kwik Trip, has spent hundreds of thousands lobbying to protect mandated profit margins for Wisconsin gas retailers.
Scores of professionals shared their struggles with the Licensing Reform Committee.
$9 billion facility to make microchips, electric-vehicle parts while promised plant for Wisconsin yet to happen.
Should her nomination pass the Senate next week, Jackson would become the first ever Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, setting a precedent on equality and representation that should have been set a long time ago.
Much like the Deer District, this would be a large entertainment, commercial, and mixed-use area around American Family Field.
The UW System is Wisconsin’s greatest asset other than its people.
With the cost of goods and services going up every year, there is no way that a municipality can keep up and in fact, many (including Washburn) have had to cut employees and programs in order to stay within levy limits.
There was a time when Wisconsin led the way for the rest of the nation.
Empower Wisconsin has reviewed more than a dozen complaints to legislative offices, and spoken to several sources dealing with DSPS. Here are some of their stories.
Less than eight months before he stands for reelection—and just seven months after he vetoed a bill that would have penalized local governments that defund their police departments—Evers has committed $50 million in federal funds to fighting crime.
As hard as it may be at times to do so, most public officials in Wisconsin recognize their responsibilities under the law to produce records or at least an explanation for why a request is being denied. Gableman and Vos simply treat these requests with contempt.
Should companies who buy ads from state broadcasters, newspapers get 50% tax credit?
The bottom line is that 50 Republicans, aided by two Democrats, were able to thwart yet more legislation aimed at helping voters of color — just like Congresses of old were able to block civil rights legislation for decades.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a moment to reflect on the life and career of Wisconsin’s first woman lieutenant governor, Margaret Farrow. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
I found the thesis of an article on a business website utterly jarring — that some employees have decided to keep their jobs but retire in place.
People have got to realize that this Republican bomb thrower has no place in our government. He needs to be sent home to his old plastics factory as soon as possible.
Only two states have cut county funding more. Huge funding decline has hurt Milwaukee.
Wisconsin public health officials continue to adjust how they report Covid vaccine data to the public, as evidence mounts of declining vaccine efficacy, according to ongoing research at the MacIver Institute.
Politics have become so dysfunctional in Wisconsin that the Legislature has taken to simply ignoring the things people actually care about, in order to focus on wild conspiracies about how the election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Let’s measure how the two parties will fare under maps approved by state Supreme Court.
One of the most vocal opponents of reform, Kwik Trip, has spent hundreds of thousands lobbying to protect mandated profit margins for Wisconsin gas retailers.
Scores of professionals shared their struggles with the Licensing Reform Committee.
$9 billion facility to make microchips, electric-vehicle parts while promised plant for Wisconsin yet to happen.
Should her nomination pass the Senate next week, Jackson would become the first ever Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, setting a precedent on equality and representation that should have been set a long time ago.
Much like the Deer District, this would be a large entertainment, commercial, and mixed-use area around American Family Field.
The UW System is Wisconsin’s greatest asset other than its people.
With the cost of goods and services going up every year, there is no way that a municipality can keep up and in fact, many (including Washburn) have had to cut employees and programs in order to stay within levy limits.
There was a time when Wisconsin led the way for the rest of the nation.
Empower Wisconsin has reviewed more than a dozen complaints to legislative offices, and spoken to several sources dealing with DSPS. Here are some of their stories.
Less than eight months before he stands for reelection—and just seven months after he vetoed a bill that would have penalized local governments that defund their police departments—Evers has committed $50 million in federal funds to fighting crime.
As hard as it may be at times to do so, most public officials in Wisconsin recognize their responsibilities under the law to produce records or at least an explanation for why a request is being denied. Gableman and Vos simply treat these requests with contempt.
Should companies who buy ads from state broadcasters, newspapers get 50% tax credit?
