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Political scientist Eitan Hersh advises those who fear for our democracy to find ways, even small ones, to act and not kvetch.
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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.

Bills moving through both houses of the Legislature, critics say, would bar an increasingly popular free-market way for employers to save on expensive specialty drugs.

Government broadband boondoggle unnecessary and a huge risk for property taxpayers

Johnson’s reversal is a reminder that politicians seldom go willingly.

Local governments still are wearing the handcuffs that Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators slapped on them a decade ago. Those handcuffs prohibit local governments from raising property taxes beyond the rate of new growth.

Christian religious leaders grasp science and strongly urge vaccinations.

Agard refuses to give up on the fight for science, common sense and the truth.

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.

Bills moving through both houses of the Legislature, critics say, would bar an increasingly popular free-market way for employers to save on expensive specialty drugs.

Government broadband boondoggle unnecessary and a huge risk for property taxpayers

Johnson’s reversal is a reminder that politicians seldom go willingly.

Local governments still are wearing the handcuffs that Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators slapped on them a decade ago. Those handcuffs prohibit local governments from raising property taxes beyond the rate of new growth.

Christian religious leaders grasp science and strongly urge vaccinations.

Agard refuses to give up on the fight for science, common sense and the truth.