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The flurry of election changes introduced in Wisconsin are mostly mind-numbing in their picky detail, but the gist is to make it harder to vote, pure and simple.
Last week, after almost a year of delays, the Legislature took a small step in fixing our state’s outdated unemployment compensation system.
Representative Dittrich’s “Protecting Women in Sports Act” is the exact opposite of bigotry; it is a powerful affirmation of all that female athletes can achieve if they’re allowed to run a fair race.
The publication is filled with the kind of extreme environmentalism that has marked Gov. Tony Evers’ administration.
Problems in Texas, other states, show how extreme weather events can shut down or overwhelm hospitals.
It’s time for congressional Republicans to listen.
Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
The data shows the worst performance of any president since World War II.
The U.S. should adopt policies on energy, immigration and taxation that incentivize the re-shoring of critical manufacturing.
As 2021 gets underway with a new President and a new Congress, the best hope to truly stabilize the agricultural economy is not more exorbitant bailouts, but structural reform.
Milwaukee exec Jeffery Yabuki is 15th most overpaid CEO, study finds, making 428 times an average worker.
After its faculty representatives got caught pushing an apparently illegal work stoppage, Madison Teachers Inc. did what comes naturally to unions: It issued threats.
Why did 27,000 people pay for the chance to shoot a gray wolf? It’s certainly not for food.
General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
The flurry of election changes introduced in Wisconsin are mostly mind-numbing in their picky detail, but the gist is to make it harder to vote, pure and simple.
Last week, after almost a year of delays, the Legislature took a small step in fixing our state’s outdated unemployment compensation system.
Representative Dittrich’s “Protecting Women in Sports Act” is the exact opposite of bigotry; it is a powerful affirmation of all that female athletes can achieve if they’re allowed to run a fair race.
The publication is filled with the kind of extreme environmentalism that has marked Gov. Tony Evers’ administration.
Problems in Texas, other states, show how extreme weather events can shut down or overwhelm hospitals.
It’s time for congressional Republicans to listen.
Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
The data shows the worst performance of any president since World War II.
The U.S. should adopt policies on energy, immigration and taxation that incentivize the re-shoring of critical manufacturing.
As 2021 gets underway with a new President and a new Congress, the best hope to truly stabilize the agricultural economy is not more exorbitant bailouts, but structural reform.
Milwaukee exec Jeffery Yabuki is 15th most overpaid CEO, study finds, making 428 times an average worker.
After its faculty representatives got caught pushing an apparently illegal work stoppage, Madison Teachers Inc. did what comes naturally to unions: It issued threats.
Why did 27,000 people pay for the chance to shoot a gray wolf? It’s certainly not for food.
General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
