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Bystanders must take a stand against racists if we want to end racism.

The big fight is over the Cardinal-Hickory Creek line, which would extend, with some massive 17-story towers, from Iowa to Middleton, across the picturesque, rugged and environmentally sensitive Driftless area.

More than a year after a sheriff’s deputy threatened Amyiah Cohoon with arrest for posting on Instagram that she had COVID-19, the Oxford, Wis. teen continues to wait for justice.

Conservatives allege free speech infringement to skirt accountability.

As economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University pointed out years ago, disclosure could be an automatic enforcement device.

As Republicans gather for the state convention in Wisconsin Dells this weekend, one thing is clear: Evers’ failure to provide real leadership for our state through one of its most trying times has laid bare the need for new leadership in Madison and a new era of conservative reform.

The organization of school district leaders across the state to plead poverty Monday while sitting on a veritable pile of money was but the latest in a string of dishonest and increasingly desperate scare tactics.

The degree to which bigotry and attempts to marginalize gay men and women still occur, and some politicians turn policy ideas into culture war issues for the cheap sake of campaign fodder, proves why the news from Nassib is important to be heard in many places across the nation.

Why officially acknowledging Juneteenth means something

Senator wins attention with Wisconsin beer, not for the first time.

The MPS School Board is in no position to complain about a lack of taxpayer funding for K-12 education.

If approved and signed by the governor, this revised version of the budget will deliver substantial progress on a number of top MMAC priorities, increase our state’s fiscal stability and enhance our economic competitiveness.

Elected jobs aren’t forever, and lobbyists help guide elected officials through the revolving door separating politics and lobbying.

It has taken more than 50 years to get to the recent passage of a bill declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday.

We have spent the last 18 months witnessing China’s Chernobyl in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If the For the People Act were the law of the land today, none of the Republican state legislators’ voter suppression schemes would be possible in Wisconsin or elsewhere.

The work of putting the Department of Justice fully and firmly on the side of press freedom is far from finished.

Against common sense, math and morality Vos continues to lead a scorched-earth campaign against ACA Medicaid expansion.

The supposed audit has been ridiculed across the land as not only a sham but a colossal waste of money.

Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. It should be revered on our college campuses. Sadly, that is where it is most at risk.

Bystanders must take a stand against racists if we want to end racism.

The big fight is over the Cardinal-Hickory Creek line, which would extend, with some massive 17-story towers, from Iowa to Middleton, across the picturesque, rugged and environmentally sensitive Driftless area.

More than a year after a sheriff’s deputy threatened Amyiah Cohoon with arrest for posting on Instagram that she had COVID-19, the Oxford, Wis. teen continues to wait for justice.

Conservatives allege free speech infringement to skirt accountability.

As economics professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University pointed out years ago, disclosure could be an automatic enforcement device.

As Republicans gather for the state convention in Wisconsin Dells this weekend, one thing is clear: Evers’ failure to provide real leadership for our state through one of its most trying times has laid bare the need for new leadership in Madison and a new era of conservative reform.

The organization of school district leaders across the state to plead poverty Monday while sitting on a veritable pile of money was but the latest in a string of dishonest and increasingly desperate scare tactics.

The degree to which bigotry and attempts to marginalize gay men and women still occur, and some politicians turn policy ideas into culture war issues for the cheap sake of campaign fodder, proves why the news from Nassib is important to be heard in many places across the nation.

Why officially acknowledging Juneteenth means something

Senator wins attention with Wisconsin beer, not for the first time.

The MPS School Board is in no position to complain about a lack of taxpayer funding for K-12 education.

If approved and signed by the governor, this revised version of the budget will deliver substantial progress on a number of top MMAC priorities, increase our state’s fiscal stability and enhance our economic competitiveness.

Elected jobs aren’t forever, and lobbyists help guide elected officials through the revolving door separating politics and lobbying.

It has taken more than 50 years to get to the recent passage of a bill declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday.

We have spent the last 18 months witnessing China’s Chernobyl in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If the For the People Act were the law of the land today, none of the Republican state legislators’ voter suppression schemes would be possible in Wisconsin or elsewhere.

The work of putting the Department of Justice fully and firmly on the side of press freedom is far from finished.

Against common sense, math and morality Vos continues to lead a scorched-earth campaign against ACA Medicaid expansion.

The supposed audit has been ridiculed across the land as not only a sham but a colossal waste of money.

Freedom of speech is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. It should be revered on our college campuses. Sadly, that is where it is most at risk.