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Gov. Tony Evers’ budget includes money to expand a program in which college students offer energy and expertise to help solve local issues. Even conservative communities like central Wisconsin’s Adams County benefit.
Turns out that states with the most progressive income taxes — Wisconsin being one of them — have been able to ride out the pandemic with little if any fiscal disruption.
Conversation is no less essential now than in the pre-mask era, and the sooner we get used to talking with masks, the better.
Cash for prisoners is just one of many liberal giveaways at taxpayers’ expense.
The only thing standing between our state and over a billion dollars are legislative Republicans dead set on sticking it to the governor.
The Republican Party has happily made itself the ugliest side of the creature it was 50 years ago, elevating the racism that was a smaller but effective part of its message.
Why is Johnson made to answer for the transgressions of his donors but nearly every player in Milwaukee Democrat circles doesn’t have to answer for the behavior of a man they promoted largely because of his “character” and “values?”
Dentists see that adding the mid-level providers eases the care shortage, expands access and creates efficiencies.
Jill Underly wants to remove the same educational options for lower-income parents that she herself used because she could afford it with her taxpayer-funded salary.
We’re separating ourselves, even more than previously thought, by our political beliefs. This only deepens our divides.
A good example of how things ought not work comes from the last round of redistricting, in 2011.
Four members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation want to know why Wisconsin ranks last nationally in fully vaccinating seniors in assisted living homes — among the state’s most vulnerable population.
While good media literacy skills matter and should be taught, in a sense we put all the work on the victims of disinformation campaigns.
The Madison Metropolitan School District is planning to make sweeping changes to how it handles teacher layoffs, and wokeness could become the biggest factor in who stays and who goes.
Trump’s promise to drain Washington’s swamp was yet another of his spectacular falsehoods.
The former lieutenant governor, who plans a run for governor, gets caught in controversy.
Hyperbole in politics is as common as spokesmen making bad jokes. But Dahmer’s murders took place 30 years ago. I think we can dispense with the spoiler alerts and stop asking if it’s too soon for an edgy remark or two.
Carrie Lee, who died Monday at age 98, was, as Gaylord Nelson’s biographer Bill Christofferson recalled, an “independent, irreverent, outgoing and strong-willed” woman who “became a political wife on her own terms and carved out a role that suited her.”
In three instances, Wisconsin Republicans demonstrated the proper response to false racism allegations—to immediately and forcefully respond and to refuse to accept the premise that a racially neutral statement is at all racist in nature.
Just when you thought Sen. Ron Johnson had to be the most shameful official Wisconsinites could possibly send to Washington, along comes Rep. Glenn Grothman.
Gov. Tony Evers’ budget includes money to expand a program in which college students offer energy and expertise to help solve local issues. Even conservative communities like central Wisconsin’s Adams County benefit.
Turns out that states with the most progressive income taxes — Wisconsin being one of them — have been able to ride out the pandemic with little if any fiscal disruption.
Conversation is no less essential now than in the pre-mask era, and the sooner we get used to talking with masks, the better.
Cash for prisoners is just one of many liberal giveaways at taxpayers’ expense.
The only thing standing between our state and over a billion dollars are legislative Republicans dead set on sticking it to the governor.
The Republican Party has happily made itself the ugliest side of the creature it was 50 years ago, elevating the racism that was a smaller but effective part of its message.
Why is Johnson made to answer for the transgressions of his donors but nearly every player in Milwaukee Democrat circles doesn’t have to answer for the behavior of a man they promoted largely because of his “character” and “values?”
Dentists see that adding the mid-level providers eases the care shortage, expands access and creates efficiencies.
Jill Underly wants to remove the same educational options for lower-income parents that she herself used because she could afford it with her taxpayer-funded salary.
We’re separating ourselves, even more than previously thought, by our political beliefs. This only deepens our divides.
A good example of how things ought not work comes from the last round of redistricting, in 2011.
Four members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation want to know why Wisconsin ranks last nationally in fully vaccinating seniors in assisted living homes — among the state’s most vulnerable population.
While good media literacy skills matter and should be taught, in a sense we put all the work on the victims of disinformation campaigns.
The Madison Metropolitan School District is planning to make sweeping changes to how it handles teacher layoffs, and wokeness could become the biggest factor in who stays and who goes.
Trump’s promise to drain Washington’s swamp was yet another of his spectacular falsehoods.
The former lieutenant governor, who plans a run for governor, gets caught in controversy.
Hyperbole in politics is as common as spokesmen making bad jokes. But Dahmer’s murders took place 30 years ago. I think we can dispense with the spoiler alerts and stop asking if it’s too soon for an edgy remark or two.
Carrie Lee, who died Monday at age 98, was, as Gaylord Nelson’s biographer Bill Christofferson recalled, an “independent, irreverent, outgoing and strong-willed” woman who “became a political wife on her own terms and carved out a role that suited her.”
In three instances, Wisconsin Republicans demonstrated the proper response to false racism allegations—to immediately and forcefully respond and to refuse to accept the premise that a racially neutral statement is at all racist in nature.
Just when you thought Sen. Ron Johnson had to be the most shameful official Wisconsinites could possibly send to Washington, along comes Rep. Glenn Grothman.
