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It isn’t that they’re trying to improve public education, but to take advantage of misleading hot-button controversies they can use to portray Evers as a villain in an effort to keep themselves in power.
Rick Kyte, a Viterbo University ethicist, made an extremely important point in a La Crosse presentation last month: The way we tell American history depends on our beliefs about who we are, and our sense of where our country should be headed.
The mess with Wisconsin’s elections
Biden doubles down on inflationary policies … If the well-established definition of inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods, then dumping trillions of new dollars in government spending while raising corporate tax rates to 28%—thereby making it far more costly to produce things—is a singularly bad idea.
This construction season, after Republicans made substantial investments in the state’s transportation budget, our local governments are well-positioned to tackle many of their road priorities.
America has a bad habit of making the actions of one Black person somehow mean all of us are responsible.
Govs. Spencer Cox of Utah and Eric Holcomb of Indiana each vetoed bills that would ban transgender athletes from competing in the gender category of their choice.
Trump, in light of the criminal activity that continues to unfold surrounding the insurrection of January 6, 2021, needs a modern version of the “Rose Mary Stretch.”
The problem is not that we have insufficient election laws, but that those laws were broken, and there has been no accountability. The burning unanswered question is who will hold people accountable for election law violations.
While I am elated that Gov. Tony Evers swiftly vetoed AB 966, I believe it is my responsibility to remind you that we are not “out of the woods.”
The reviews of Jackson’s nomination from some of the nation’s most prominent libertarians have been strikingly positive.
Wisconsin offers the symbiotic opportunity for state and national Republicans to define and launch the next era of the GOP.
Whatever the outcomes of this fall’s elections those in power and the new U W president should consider asking Tommy Thompson to help our state and university grow in greatness.
Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.
Changing to a “Wisconsin” museum may be the only way to assure state support.
Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has brought the world to the precipice of nuclear holocaust.
Why is a Harvard-educated federal judge who was nominated based on sex and race not able to define what a woman is or talk about race? This question became abundantly clear during the nomination hearings this week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Women’s History month has been filled with iconic firsts and seismic losses, this year. It has also been a reminder of why HERstory is such an important and necessary component of the American story.
Feingold, the president of the American Constitution Society and joined constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe in arguing that the ERA has satisfied all constitutional requirements for ratification and that no further action from Congress or the executive branch is needed for the National Archivist to certify the amendment.
Two faces could symbolize the potential historic turnover in who serves in the next Legislature that convenes in January: Republican Romaine Quinn, age 31, might replace retiring Senate Democratic Leader Janet Bewley, age 70.
It isn’t that they’re trying to improve public education, but to take advantage of misleading hot-button controversies they can use to portray Evers as a villain in an effort to keep themselves in power.
Rick Kyte, a Viterbo University ethicist, made an extremely important point in a La Crosse presentation last month: The way we tell American history depends on our beliefs about who we are, and our sense of where our country should be headed.
The mess with Wisconsin’s elections
Biden doubles down on inflationary policies … If the well-established definition of inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods, then dumping trillions of new dollars in government spending while raising corporate tax rates to 28%—thereby making it far more costly to produce things—is a singularly bad idea.
This construction season, after Republicans made substantial investments in the state’s transportation budget, our local governments are well-positioned to tackle many of their road priorities.
America has a bad habit of making the actions of one Black person somehow mean all of us are responsible.
Govs. Spencer Cox of Utah and Eric Holcomb of Indiana each vetoed bills that would ban transgender athletes from competing in the gender category of their choice.
Trump, in light of the criminal activity that continues to unfold surrounding the insurrection of January 6, 2021, needs a modern version of the “Rose Mary Stretch.”
The problem is not that we have insufficient election laws, but that those laws were broken, and there has been no accountability. The burning unanswered question is who will hold people accountable for election law violations.
While I am elated that Gov. Tony Evers swiftly vetoed AB 966, I believe it is my responsibility to remind you that we are not “out of the woods.”
The reviews of Jackson’s nomination from some of the nation’s most prominent libertarians have been strikingly positive.
Wisconsin offers the symbiotic opportunity for state and national Republicans to define and launch the next era of the GOP.
Whatever the outcomes of this fall’s elections those in power and the new U W president should consider asking Tommy Thompson to help our state and university grow in greatness.
Climate change alarmism has become a science of its own.
Changing to a “Wisconsin” museum may be the only way to assure state support.
Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine has brought the world to the precipice of nuclear holocaust.
Why is a Harvard-educated federal judge who was nominated based on sex and race not able to define what a woman is or talk about race? This question became abundantly clear during the nomination hearings this week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Women’s History month has been filled with iconic firsts and seismic losses, this year. It has also been a reminder of why HERstory is such an important and necessary component of the American story.
Feingold, the president of the American Constitution Society and joined constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe in arguing that the ERA has satisfied all constitutional requirements for ratification and that no further action from Congress or the executive branch is needed for the National Archivist to certify the amendment.
Two faces could symbolize the potential historic turnover in who serves in the next Legislature that convenes in January: Republican Romaine Quinn, age 31, might replace retiring Senate Democratic Leader Janet Bewley, age 70.
