
Dan Shafer: Previewing the Milwaukee mayoral race
Milwaukee’s moving target of a mayoral election is going to be its most competitive in a generation. The field is beginning to get settled.
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Milwaukee’s moving target of a mayoral election is going to be its most competitive in a generation. The field is beginning to get settled.

No one deserved that honor more than than Phil Haslanger, one of Madison’s leading voices for social and racial justice.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the 2022 Democratic field for U.S. Senate as pols await incumbent Republican Ron Johnson’s decision on whether to run for reelection. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

To disgruntled Democrats and independents who seem willing to undercut a Democratic president who is our principal bulwark against genuine evil, race in America may be something to factor in to your purist sentiments about Biden’s performance.

The only antidote to all of this is to restore our sense of community and mutual humanity.

In the 48 hours leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse’s deadly encounter with Joseph Rosenbaum, Wisconsin’s governor failed to do his job.

On Wednesday night, Kenosha Police took into custody a man later identified as an MSNBC producer for running a red light in an obvious attempt to follow a van full of jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

If you think a verdict of “not guilty” was the wrong result, your quarrel is not with the jurors who decide the case but with the law as it is written.

If the justice’s principles hold, it will be a six-member court deciding Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the next decade.

Like no time in the past, today there is a big need to preserve our ethical traditions while aggressively taking action to prevent wildlife and native habitat from disappearing.

Safety during gun deer season is more than four firearm rules. Gun handling, tree stand harnessing, chronic wasting disease, and COVID-19 must all be dealt with to protect one another and the animal being pursued.

The BETTER Kidney Care Act would create a system that enables care providers to better communicate with each other and work together to address a patient’s overall health, rather than working separately to address individual conditions.

The best way to ensure election integrity is to get involved and become a part of the process, and one of the best ways to get involved is to become a poll worker.

What do Tony Evers’ chances at re-election look like? Will it be Rebecca Kleefisch or someone else for the GOP? Who will the Dems choose as lieutenant governor with Mandela Barnes running for Senate?

No, he was a callow, foolish boy who had no business being in Kenosha.

On Monday President Joe Biden signed a truly impressive legislative measure to address infrastructure concerns in the nation.

China is the preeminent threat that we face as a nation, and they are increasingly leveraging the cyber realm to impact our national security.

One of every five federal COVID relief dollars in a state grant fund the governor controls has gone to Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, according to the Evers administration’s own tracking site.

While strict, fair and immediate disciplinary procedures should be in place, that discipline must be built on the principles of restorative justice and with children’s emotional and mental health a priority.

The big question that remains is whether the ringleader and masterminds of the Russian collusion hoax will ever be revealed and held accountable.

Milwaukee’s moving target of a mayoral election is going to be its most competitive in a generation. The field is beginning to get settled.

No one deserved that honor more than than Phil Haslanger, one of Madison’s leading voices for social and racial justice.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the 2022 Democratic field for U.S. Senate as pols await incumbent Republican Ron Johnson’s decision on whether to run for reelection. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

To disgruntled Democrats and independents who seem willing to undercut a Democratic president who is our principal bulwark against genuine evil, race in America may be something to factor in to your purist sentiments about Biden’s performance.

The only antidote to all of this is to restore our sense of community and mutual humanity.

In the 48 hours leading up to Kyle Rittenhouse’s deadly encounter with Joseph Rosenbaum, Wisconsin’s governor failed to do his job.

On Wednesday night, Kenosha Police took into custody a man later identified as an MSNBC producer for running a red light in an obvious attempt to follow a van full of jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

If you think a verdict of “not guilty” was the wrong result, your quarrel is not with the jurors who decide the case but with the law as it is written.

If the justice’s principles hold, it will be a six-member court deciding Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the next decade.

Like no time in the past, today there is a big need to preserve our ethical traditions while aggressively taking action to prevent wildlife and native habitat from disappearing.

Safety during gun deer season is more than four firearm rules. Gun handling, tree stand harnessing, chronic wasting disease, and COVID-19 must all be dealt with to protect one another and the animal being pursued.

The BETTER Kidney Care Act would create a system that enables care providers to better communicate with each other and work together to address a patient’s overall health, rather than working separately to address individual conditions.

The best way to ensure election integrity is to get involved and become a part of the process, and one of the best ways to get involved is to become a poll worker.

What do Tony Evers’ chances at re-election look like? Will it be Rebecca Kleefisch or someone else for the GOP? Who will the Dems choose as lieutenant governor with Mandela Barnes running for Senate?

No, he was a callow, foolish boy who had no business being in Kenosha.

On Monday President Joe Biden signed a truly impressive legislative measure to address infrastructure concerns in the nation.

China is the preeminent threat that we face as a nation, and they are increasingly leveraging the cyber realm to impact our national security.

One of every five federal COVID relief dollars in a state grant fund the governor controls has gone to Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, according to the Evers administration’s own tracking site.

While strict, fair and immediate disciplinary procedures should be in place, that discipline must be built on the principles of restorative justice and with children’s emotional and mental health a priority.

The big question that remains is whether the ringleader and masterminds of the Russian collusion hoax will ever be revealed and held accountable.