Two very different COVID-19 responses produce different economic outcomes in Hudson, Wis., and Stillwater, Minn.

Former Wisconsin governors Jim Doyle, a Democrat, and Scott Walker, a Republican have come together for the better health of our state. They have joined efforts to enlist their fellow citizens to get vaccinated so to stem the spread of COVID.

It’s breathtaking the amount of money Republicans are determined to turn away on behalf of the people of Wisconsin.

That’s how much federal pandemic aid city is getting. A participatory budget process is needed.

Milwaukee will invariably continue to throw money into the streetcar in a vain attempt at making Mayor Barrett’s vanity project finally work.

Yet the difference is smaller in Wisconsin. Why?

Given the state’s revenue forecast, it makes sense to consider options for returning some of the excess revenue to taxpayers in a structurally sound manner while making Wisconsin more economically competitive in the process.

With an additional $4.4 billion in tax revenue, the legislature and the governor have the opportunity to accomplish priorities that were often thought to be unrealistic: reduce taxes, implement a learning loss recovery program for students who have been left behind from school closures, or expand strategic investments like broadband to ensure all Wisconsinites have access to high-speed internet.

While Gov. Tony Evers and President Joe Biden spend your tax dollars like drunken sailors on leave, consumers are taking it in the shorts.

The bills presented by Wisconsin legislators seek to ignore historical truths, under the guise that teaching history and current events accurately would upset students and assault the sensibilities of Caucasian students.

With more than an estimated 207,000 members of the LGBTQ+ community calling Wisconsin home, LGBTQ+ individuals are our friends, our neighbors and members of our family.

Johnson’s strong predilection toward unscientific notions, ones damaging to public health, is by no means confined to the pandemic.

LFB’s re-estimates show an increase of $4.4 billion above January estimates, with a projected ending balance in the 2021-23 budget of $5.7 billion. That flood of projected cash raises a critical question: Will taxpayers get that money back or will they get Tonied?

The only sensible and fiscally prudent thing to do is to continue to spend within a reasonable means and return a sizeable balance of what might be termed “the stimulus dividend” to the taxpayers.

Now that we are somewhat stabilized and on the mend, thanks in large part to government intervention and funding, it’s time for the Biden administration to look ahead and build a more robust economy. Collaboration with industry, as with the COVID vaccine, points the way forward.

The best way to rebuild economy and a strong middle class. Wisconsin and nation must do more.

The powerful hand of government along with the means to tax and fund such projects is what is required so to impact a host of needs people are facing. The average person is not able to effect such change. Former Madison Mayor Sue Bauman well understood that fact.

U.S. Senate candidate’s claim to back family-supporting jobs exaggerates, distorts truth.

Republican efforts to try to diminish the significance of the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 continue.

He could have stood up to Trump several times these past few years, but always bowed to him when the chips were down.