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For those of us who cherish the beauty of our wondrous land, the weeks before Halloween came with two big treats that reversed a couple of dirty tricks from the Donald Trump administration.
All of us here in Wisconsin, on all sides of various political aisles, need to treat our state’s low reading scores like the crisis it is.
Despite the alarmingly low test scores, there appears to be little to no outrage by the media and education establishment.
The recall campaign against four incumbents on the Mequon-Thiensville School Board — Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan and Chris Schultz — has turned particularly nasty, as the establishment looks to hold the line against a grassroots campaign driven by fed-up parents.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Pocan and Moore signed on as co-sponsors for legislation that would identify, investigate and expel members of the House who aided and abetted the seditionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A weird fringe of the hunting sector isn’t doing the sport’s image any favors.
Ronald Reagan’s nationally televised address, “A Time for Choosing,” was the manifesto of the modern conservative movement.
Wisconsin is fed up with extreme gerrymandering in the state Legislature.
Wisconsin’s a leader in counting prisoners to inflate rural areas and rob urban areas of representation.
There will now be three investigations—by the Legislative Audit Bureau, the Assembly and the Senate—into how November 2020 elections were run by 1,835 municipal clerks and 72 county clerks and overseen by the state Elections Commission.
No-knock warrants have become embedded in policing toolkits and it is difficult to convince many in law enforcement that their use should be banned. Yet, we know that both innocent civilians and officers have been injured or lost their lives, as a result of this practice.
The IRS estimates that it misses about 15% of the taxes owed each year with almost all that amount from the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers.
The “Build Back Better” framework announced by Biden is historic and transformative.
It’s getting really hard to figure out what the Wisconsin Republicans believe about our election procedures.
Street racing, “red light roulette,” and driving on sidewalks—all of these things are reckless driving realities across the state of Wisconsin and especially in the City of Milwaukee.
Here’s something else the Evers administration has failed to think through: What happens when its COVID testing requirement depletes an already overworked, short-staffed Department of Corrections?
Don’t be surprised if the nine justices don’t spend any time deciding who Democratic Gov. Tony Evers must invite to his news conferences.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer different takes on the Legislative Audit Bureau’s review of the 2020 Wisconsin elections. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
With overwhelming support among seniors, and a history of bipartisan support, Medicare Advantage has been lucky enough to be protected by policy makers in Washington. But that could change if seniors don’t make their voices heard.
It appears that some Wisconsin Republicans are suddenly cheering funds that are being released under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan earlier this year, a plan that their Republican colleagues opposed in lockstep.
For those of us who cherish the beauty of our wondrous land, the weeks before Halloween came with two big treats that reversed a couple of dirty tricks from the Donald Trump administration.
All of us here in Wisconsin, on all sides of various political aisles, need to treat our state’s low reading scores like the crisis it is.
Despite the alarmingly low test scores, there appears to be little to no outrage by the media and education establishment.
The recall campaign against four incumbents on the Mequon-Thiensville School Board — Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan and Chris Schultz — has turned particularly nasty, as the establishment looks to hold the line against a grassroots campaign driven by fed-up parents.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Pocan and Moore signed on as co-sponsors for legislation that would identify, investigate and expel members of the House who aided and abetted the seditionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A weird fringe of the hunting sector isn’t doing the sport’s image any favors.
Ronald Reagan’s nationally televised address, “A Time for Choosing,” was the manifesto of the modern conservative movement.
Wisconsin is fed up with extreme gerrymandering in the state Legislature.
Wisconsin’s a leader in counting prisoners to inflate rural areas and rob urban areas of representation.
There will now be three investigations—by the Legislative Audit Bureau, the Assembly and the Senate—into how November 2020 elections were run by 1,835 municipal clerks and 72 county clerks and overseen by the state Elections Commission.
No-knock warrants have become embedded in policing toolkits and it is difficult to convince many in law enforcement that their use should be banned. Yet, we know that both innocent civilians and officers have been injured or lost their lives, as a result of this practice.
The IRS estimates that it misses about 15% of the taxes owed each year with almost all that amount from the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers.
The “Build Back Better” framework announced by Biden is historic and transformative.
It’s getting really hard to figure out what the Wisconsin Republicans believe about our election procedures.
Street racing, “red light roulette,” and driving on sidewalks—all of these things are reckless driving realities across the state of Wisconsin and especially in the City of Milwaukee.
Here’s something else the Evers administration has failed to think through: What happens when its COVID testing requirement depletes an already overworked, short-staffed Department of Corrections?
Don’t be surprised if the nine justices don’t spend any time deciding who Democratic Gov. Tony Evers must invite to his news conferences.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer different takes on the Legislative Audit Bureau’s review of the 2020 Wisconsin elections. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
With overwhelming support among seniors, and a history of bipartisan support, Medicare Advantage has been lucky enough to be protected by policy makers in Washington. But that could change if seniors don’t make their voices heard.
It appears that some Wisconsin Republicans are suddenly cheering funds that are being released under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan earlier this year, a plan that their Republican colleagues opposed in lockstep.
