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The same governor who battered and bruised Badger State restaurants, lodging and other “nonessential” businesses during his extended lockdowns last year is now going about playing Santa with a big sack of federal COVID relief cash.
Could we still rally as that Greatest Generation did while constantly and stubbornly at each other’s throat, often for no apparent reason?
The gun used to kill Chicago Police officer Ella French belonged the to alleged gunman’s brother, who was not legally allowed to own it because of a felony record for which he received a shockingly lenient sentence from a Dane County Circuit Court judge.
A political divide is evident in COVID-19 data. Republican-leaning states tend toward fewer vaccinations, more deaths.
Cooperative Network opposes increased taxes on small businesses and farms, in particular the proposed elimination of “stepped-up in basis,” a tax provision that has been in place for over a century, and has helped thousands of family-owned businesses and farms limit their tax liability and pass their operations down to the next generation.
All the signs point toward a smashing Republican triumph in 2022, particularly since a majority are now on guard against traditional Democrat electoral chicanery, and an increasingly large minority are determined to root it out.
Congressman Ron Kind isn’t running again. That’s bad news for Democrats and democracy.
There is still room to improve our approach to this pandemic, and we must, or we will never get out of this nightmare. It’s time to do as we are told and get everyone vaccinated.
Individual ‘rights’ should not take precedent over the health of others.
Wearing out his veto pen, Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday killed a half-dozen GOP-led bills aimed at restoring confidence in Wisconsin’s elections.
Critical race theory — a previously obscure school of legal and academic thought that holds that racism isn’t just a matter of personal prejudice but deeply embedded in U.S. institutions through a historical pattern of discrimination — is the new Republican bugaboo.
Democratic Senate candidates are demanding that their party’s caucus stop compromising on filibuster reform, infrastructure, voting rights, and budgets.
In Wisconsin, the resulting ripple effect could negatively impact our booming economy of biohealth researchers, manufacturers and additional suppliers.
You could easily mistake a map of vaccination rates across the country for a map of the 2020 presidential election returns.
As Evers last week signed a bipartisan reform bill on police use of deadly force, he killed a measure that would have taken state funding from local governments that cut their law enforcement budgets.
Given the significant uncertainties resulting from the February 2021 hunt, there isn’t a quota number for a fall wolf hunt that can be justified if we want to maintain stability of our wolf population.
Why Congress must pass the For the People Act
Forty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored a court order to return to work and banned them from federal service for life.
The $1 trillion package — with its $550 billion worth of new investment in transportation, water, broadband, energy and the environment — would modernize our nation’s infrastructure.
Two-thirds of adult Americans did not go to college at all or complete a four-year degree. Where’s the fairness in asking them to pay back the loans of those earning so much more?
The same governor who battered and bruised Badger State restaurants, lodging and other “nonessential” businesses during his extended lockdowns last year is now going about playing Santa with a big sack of federal COVID relief cash.
Could we still rally as that Greatest Generation did while constantly and stubbornly at each other’s throat, often for no apparent reason?
The gun used to kill Chicago Police officer Ella French belonged the to alleged gunman’s brother, who was not legally allowed to own it because of a felony record for which he received a shockingly lenient sentence from a Dane County Circuit Court judge.
A political divide is evident in COVID-19 data. Republican-leaning states tend toward fewer vaccinations, more deaths.
Cooperative Network opposes increased taxes on small businesses and farms, in particular the proposed elimination of “stepped-up in basis,” a tax provision that has been in place for over a century, and has helped thousands of family-owned businesses and farms limit their tax liability and pass their operations down to the next generation.
All the signs point toward a smashing Republican triumph in 2022, particularly since a majority are now on guard against traditional Democrat electoral chicanery, and an increasingly large minority are determined to root it out.
Congressman Ron Kind isn’t running again. That’s bad news for Democrats and democracy.
There is still room to improve our approach to this pandemic, and we must, or we will never get out of this nightmare. It’s time to do as we are told and get everyone vaccinated.
Individual ‘rights’ should not take precedent over the health of others.
Wearing out his veto pen, Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday killed a half-dozen GOP-led bills aimed at restoring confidence in Wisconsin’s elections.
Critical race theory — a previously obscure school of legal and academic thought that holds that racism isn’t just a matter of personal prejudice but deeply embedded in U.S. institutions through a historical pattern of discrimination — is the new Republican bugaboo.
Democratic Senate candidates are demanding that their party’s caucus stop compromising on filibuster reform, infrastructure, voting rights, and budgets.
In Wisconsin, the resulting ripple effect could negatively impact our booming economy of biohealth researchers, manufacturers and additional suppliers.
You could easily mistake a map of vaccination rates across the country for a map of the 2020 presidential election returns.
As Evers last week signed a bipartisan reform bill on police use of deadly force, he killed a measure that would have taken state funding from local governments that cut their law enforcement budgets.
Given the significant uncertainties resulting from the February 2021 hunt, there isn’t a quota number for a fall wolf hunt that can be justified if we want to maintain stability of our wolf population.
Why Congress must pass the For the People Act
Forty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored a court order to return to work and banned them from federal service for life.
The $1 trillion package — with its $550 billion worth of new investment in transportation, water, broadband, energy and the environment — would modernize our nation’s infrastructure.
Two-thirds of adult Americans did not go to college at all or complete a four-year degree. Where’s the fairness in asking them to pay back the loans of those earning so much more?
