
Bruce Thompson: High court minority embarrasses itself
State Supreme Court came perilously close to invalidating a legal election.
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State Supreme Court came perilously close to invalidating a legal election.
Struggling to survive in a tough winter, where food is often scarce and the cold unrelenting, the wolves didn’t have a chance.
Empower Wisconsin has obtained an email from Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) faculty representatives encouraging all MMSD teachers to feign illness and ditch their teaching responsibilities.
Yet he has now flip flopped, expressing concern about absentee voting.
List of restrictions will make it less likely that disabled, nursing home residents and others vote.
Forcing franchisees to pay taxes on business expenses purchased with PPP loans would further hurt struggling families and permanently close the doors of businesses Wisconsinites have enjoyed for decades.
38% of Milwaukee workers would benefit from minimum wage hike, versus 22% nationally.
Joe Biden campaigned on ending the death penalty. Now that he’s president, he needs to issue an executive order to do just that.
As it has for so many other things, COVID-19 has taken an existing problem and made it worse — in this case, inadequate savings for Wisconsin’s current and future retirees.
Its coverage of all legislative and committee hearings is critical to a democracy.
Sen. Duey Stroebel sits down with The Flagship to discuss the tuition freeze, demographic changes and enrollment concerns, and the importance of higher education on the state. Plus, tune in to hear more about how the climate on campus has impacted the legislature and higher education policy.
While the Evers administration celebrates Wisconsin’s rise from near the bottom to the top of the national COVID-19 vaccine administration list, rural Wisconsin is being left behind.
The party sponsored a showing of a thoroughly debunked conspiracy-theory “documentary” regarding the 2020 Presidential election.
Wisconsin ranks 50th in support for arts. That’s a missed opportunity for the state.
The governor’s budget message, once again, is a wish list of things for Madison and includes several divisive policy items that should be discussed in the regular legislative process.
The governor is proposing a $1 billion tax increase, but he is also proposing to increase spending by $3.8 billion from all funding sources in just the first fiscal year. To create the appearance of balance, the budget spends down cash reserves, taps revenue sources that don’t yet exist, and makes unrealistic assumptions about future revenue.
Many of the huge disparities we see today are a direct result of White people being given access to homeownership which fostered generational wealth building to the exclusion of people of color.
Evers’ budget would also allow the 68 counties that now charge a 0.5% local sales to raise that local-option sales tax to 1% if voters agree by passing a referendum.
The Biden administration should use the tragedy of the COVID-19 crisis to begin to meaningfully address historic racial injustices in our nation.
Invitation-only online event featured more than 80 sessions to move beyond business as usual and transition to a more sustainable and just economy.
State Supreme Court came perilously close to invalidating a legal election.
Struggling to survive in a tough winter, where food is often scarce and the cold unrelenting, the wolves didn’t have a chance.
Empower Wisconsin has obtained an email from Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) faculty representatives encouraging all MMSD teachers to feign illness and ditch their teaching responsibilities.
Yet he has now flip flopped, expressing concern about absentee voting.
List of restrictions will make it less likely that disabled, nursing home residents and others vote.
Forcing franchisees to pay taxes on business expenses purchased with PPP loans would further hurt struggling families and permanently close the doors of businesses Wisconsinites have enjoyed for decades.
38% of Milwaukee workers would benefit from minimum wage hike, versus 22% nationally.
Joe Biden campaigned on ending the death penalty. Now that he’s president, he needs to issue an executive order to do just that.
As it has for so many other things, COVID-19 has taken an existing problem and made it worse — in this case, inadequate savings for Wisconsin’s current and future retirees.
Its coverage of all legislative and committee hearings is critical to a democracy.
Sen. Duey Stroebel sits down with The Flagship to discuss the tuition freeze, demographic changes and enrollment concerns, and the importance of higher education on the state. Plus, tune in to hear more about how the climate on campus has impacted the legislature and higher education policy.
While the Evers administration celebrates Wisconsin’s rise from near the bottom to the top of the national COVID-19 vaccine administration list, rural Wisconsin is being left behind.
The party sponsored a showing of a thoroughly debunked conspiracy-theory “documentary” regarding the 2020 Presidential election.
Wisconsin ranks 50th in support for arts. That’s a missed opportunity for the state.
The governor’s budget message, once again, is a wish list of things for Madison and includes several divisive policy items that should be discussed in the regular legislative process.
The governor is proposing a $1 billion tax increase, but he is also proposing to increase spending by $3.8 billion from all funding sources in just the first fiscal year. To create the appearance of balance, the budget spends down cash reserves, taps revenue sources that don’t yet exist, and makes unrealistic assumptions about future revenue.
Many of the huge disparities we see today are a direct result of White people being given access to homeownership which fostered generational wealth building to the exclusion of people of color.
Evers’ budget would also allow the 68 counties that now charge a 0.5% local sales to raise that local-option sales tax to 1% if voters agree by passing a referendum.
The Biden administration should use the tragedy of the COVID-19 crisis to begin to meaningfully address historic racial injustices in our nation.
Invitation-only online event featured more than 80 sessions to move beyond business as usual and transition to a more sustainable and just economy.