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The personal property tax is hurting small businesses, and now is the time to come together and, once and for all, eliminate it.
Exacting revenge is what this overly partisan Legislature has been about.
We should teach it in Wisconsin schools anyway.
If there was any lingering doubt that some legislators don’t actually read bills before voting on them, this week should have erased it.
Let Arizona be a lesson. Continuing election grind is embarrassing.
If attacks on school board members teach us anything, it’s that to save our democracy and protect our communities, citizens have got to get engaged and show up.
Your tax bill would be lower — much lower — without all those tax exemptions.
The data shows huge advantage for Republicans. Will courts allow this to continue?
According to FBI statistics, America experienced the highest annual increase in the murder rate last year since the FBI began tracking national crime statistics.
Even loyal Democrats are down on Joe Biden right now. Better to take the long view.
Republican political leaders have put themselves on the wrong side of the biggest public health issue of this generation.
The tradition of undergraduate representation on the council is an important one.
What’s infuriating is that the monoclonal treatment currently costs about $2,100 a dose — 100 times more than a shot in the arm.
Judges and legislators with an ounce of integrity should reject Republicans’ current efforts to gerrymander again and uphold the principles of representative democracy, which can only be achieved through fair maps.
Racism is so readily apparent in the copious evidence that racists have left behind. You could not begin to fill the Superdome in New Orleans with the evidence of America’s racist past without running out of room very fast.
Aggravated assaults in America rose by an estimated 12.4 percent, while the murder rate increased by a staggering 29.4 percent—the single largest year-over-year increase on record.
Guns that end up on Chicago’s streets often come from Indiana and Wisconsin.
For more than 110 years, Wisconsin has been a leader in workforce innovation, advancing ideas to cultivate a workforce that remains the envy of the nation.
As a bipartisan group of state lawmakers takes up a bill aimed at breaking up sex trafficking of children, there are growing concerns about sexual exploitation of minors at Wisconsin’s own Fort McCoy, where some 13,000 Afghan refugees are being housed.
We must elevate social studies generally — and civics specifically — in our schools, and news literacy must be central to this curriculum.
The personal property tax is hurting small businesses, and now is the time to come together and, once and for all, eliminate it.
Exacting revenge is what this overly partisan Legislature has been about.
We should teach it in Wisconsin schools anyway.
If there was any lingering doubt that some legislators don’t actually read bills before voting on them, this week should have erased it.
Let Arizona be a lesson. Continuing election grind is embarrassing.
If attacks on school board members teach us anything, it’s that to save our democracy and protect our communities, citizens have got to get engaged and show up.
Your tax bill would be lower — much lower — without all those tax exemptions.
The data shows huge advantage for Republicans. Will courts allow this to continue?
According to FBI statistics, America experienced the highest annual increase in the murder rate last year since the FBI began tracking national crime statistics.
Even loyal Democrats are down on Joe Biden right now. Better to take the long view.
Republican political leaders have put themselves on the wrong side of the biggest public health issue of this generation.
The tradition of undergraduate representation on the council is an important one.
What’s infuriating is that the monoclonal treatment currently costs about $2,100 a dose — 100 times more than a shot in the arm.
Judges and legislators with an ounce of integrity should reject Republicans’ current efforts to gerrymander again and uphold the principles of representative democracy, which can only be achieved through fair maps.
Racism is so readily apparent in the copious evidence that racists have left behind. You could not begin to fill the Superdome in New Orleans with the evidence of America’s racist past without running out of room very fast.
Aggravated assaults in America rose by an estimated 12.4 percent, while the murder rate increased by a staggering 29.4 percent—the single largest year-over-year increase on record.
Guns that end up on Chicago’s streets often come from Indiana and Wisconsin.
For more than 110 years, Wisconsin has been a leader in workforce innovation, advancing ideas to cultivate a workforce that remains the envy of the nation.
As a bipartisan group of state lawmakers takes up a bill aimed at breaking up sex trafficking of children, there are growing concerns about sexual exploitation of minors at Wisconsin’s own Fort McCoy, where some 13,000 Afghan refugees are being housed.
We must elevate social studies generally — and civics specifically — in our schools, and news literacy must be central to this curriculum.