
Bill Lueders: Your Right to Know: Record location fees invite abuses
The Legislature should consider ending location fees altogether. Their use invites abuse and creates a disincentive for custodians to efficiently maintain and retrieve records.
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The Legislature should consider ending location fees altogether. Their use invites abuse and creates a disincentive for custodians to efficiently maintain and retrieve records.
State election law experts say Underly, who sent out two campaign-related emails on the taxpayer’s dime clearly broke the law. But she’ll probably receive a reprimand from the school board of the Pecatonica School District, where she serves as superintendent, if that.
Where Georgia once demanded cash payments to access the ballot, they are now charging the ultimate commodity—time.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks “solidarity” will be the watchword going forward.
How often I’ve wondered in the past difficult months at the compassion and empathy displayed by so many unsung heroes.
Another big money promise for Wisconsin. Will this one pan out?
It was G. Gordon Liddy’s character, or lack thereof, which dealt one of the harshest blows to the Nixon White House.
The Republican-led Legislature effectively blocked part of the Department of Natural Resources’ proposed limits on PFAS contamination earlier this month — one year after Gov. Tony Evers approved a bill that directed the agency to create those limits as part of an effort to cap the use of firefighting foam.
We’re not looking to have wolves eliminated. We are looking to have the ecosystem balanced again, to establish the boundaries.
Emails released over the past few days prove that State Superintendent candidate Jill Underly used her official government account while on government time last year to build support for her nascent campaign.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe was on the hot seat Wednesday, testifying about WEC’s contacts with left-leaning groups embedded in Green Bay and Milwaukee elections.
Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and some very fishy graphs about Wisconsin’s presidential election.
Braiding involves complex twists, turns and weaves, but the law should be straight.
The Evers administration is in a position to provide massive help to the businesses in Wisconsin that have been set back by the COVID epidemic.
Kind is seen as especially vulnerable after the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Despite administration claims that things are improving, a DWD employee says the disconnect continues thanks in large part to Evers’ state government lockdown.
This tool has not only been used to protect the institution of slavery, but also effectively employed to curtail civil and voting rights for African Americans since its use in this country.
There are certainly ways that Wisconsin can make our voting systems better, particularly how we run absentee voting. It all has to start with building trust and transparency.
Expungement reform would open new opportunities for grandmother, teacher.
We must have elected officials who are attentive to the needs of the people and the people are able to oust their elected officials if they are not responsive.
The Legislature should consider ending location fees altogether. Their use invites abuse and creates a disincentive for custodians to efficiently maintain and retrieve records.
State election law experts say Underly, who sent out two campaign-related emails on the taxpayer’s dime clearly broke the law. But she’ll probably receive a reprimand from the school board of the Pecatonica School District, where she serves as superintendent, if that.
Where Georgia once demanded cash payments to access the ballot, they are now charging the ultimate commodity—time.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks “solidarity” will be the watchword going forward.
How often I’ve wondered in the past difficult months at the compassion and empathy displayed by so many unsung heroes.
Another big money promise for Wisconsin. Will this one pan out?
It was G. Gordon Liddy’s character, or lack thereof, which dealt one of the harshest blows to the Nixon White House.
The Republican-led Legislature effectively blocked part of the Department of Natural Resources’ proposed limits on PFAS contamination earlier this month — one year after Gov. Tony Evers approved a bill that directed the agency to create those limits as part of an effort to cap the use of firefighting foam.
We’re not looking to have wolves eliminated. We are looking to have the ecosystem balanced again, to establish the boundaries.
Emails released over the past few days prove that State Superintendent candidate Jill Underly used her official government account while on government time last year to build support for her nascent campaign.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe was on the hot seat Wednesday, testifying about WEC’s contacts with left-leaning groups embedded in Green Bay and Milwaukee elections.
Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and some very fishy graphs about Wisconsin’s presidential election.
Braiding involves complex twists, turns and weaves, but the law should be straight.
The Evers administration is in a position to provide massive help to the businesses in Wisconsin that have been set back by the COVID epidemic.
Kind is seen as especially vulnerable after the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Despite administration claims that things are improving, a DWD employee says the disconnect continues thanks in large part to Evers’ state government lockdown.
This tool has not only been used to protect the institution of slavery, but also effectively employed to curtail civil and voting rights for African Americans since its use in this country.
There are certainly ways that Wisconsin can make our voting systems better, particularly how we run absentee voting. It all has to start with building trust and transparency.
Expungement reform would open new opportunities for grandmother, teacher.
We must have elected officials who are attentive to the needs of the people and the people are able to oust their elected officials if they are not responsive.