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Would a Democratic legislature have the right to tell the local Little League playing at a municipal ball field that they have to sing the Cuban national anthem?

Eighty-seven percent of people who would qualify for an expungement under proposed legislation have never committed anything more serious than a misdemeanor, according to new data from the Badger Institute.

GOP bill backed by Lena Taylor gives police power in FPC disciplinary actions of cops.

It could be that the pandemic that made so many people sick could have a healthy side effect on American politics.

Key Republican voices are accusing Biden of engaging in a stealth attempt to reshape American life.

Liberals seem to disagree.

Education must remain available and affordable for all Wisconsinites seeking to improve themselves, and in turn, improve our state.

Wisconsin congressman took a stand against Republican lies and then turned chicken.

A new report shows Gov. Tony Evers’ incompetent Department of Workforce Development has failed on two critical fronts: Getting unemployment checks to eligible claimants and protecting the state’s Unemployment Insurance system from fraud and waste.

The evidence suggests it did.

We must move towards a world where these types of catastrophe’s are less likely because we have learned that interdependence makes us all valued, safer, and secure to the challenges that will inevitably face us in the future.

The Wyoming Republican is a rigidly right-wing warmonger whose crude attacks on people of color, immigrants, Muslims and progressives carry the same venom as those of the most extreme members of her caucus — and of the 45th president, whose election in 2016 and reelection in 2020 she enthusiastically supported.

In the state of Wisconsin our budget shows the people of the state what our leaders value—and with the latest actions by the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee, I’d venture to say they don’t value the people of this state very much.

The silence of Wisconsin Republicans prior to Wednesday’s vote is especially notable given Gallagher’s previous statements of support for Cheney.

Those responsible for the insurrection shouldn’t be allowed to fade into the dustbin of history, as though nothing at all had happened.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the arguments of the anti-school choice crowd ring increasingly hollow.

Nelson has written “One Day Stronger,” recounting the successful effort to save one of those threatened mills along the Fox.

The city of Milwaukee allowed liberal, third-party groups funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to set the rules and help administer November’s presidential election, according to a new complaint filed Monday on behalf of five Milwaukee residents by the Amistad Project, an election integrity watchdog.

Vaccines are working, and we need every Wisconsinite to rally to get their shots and push this over the goal line.

Afghan school girls were targeted in a weekend attack that killed 80. Pres. Joe Biden’s withdrawal means there will be a lot more of this in the future.

Would a Democratic legislature have the right to tell the local Little League playing at a municipal ball field that they have to sing the Cuban national anthem?

Eighty-seven percent of people who would qualify for an expungement under proposed legislation have never committed anything more serious than a misdemeanor, according to new data from the Badger Institute.

GOP bill backed by Lena Taylor gives police power in FPC disciplinary actions of cops.

It could be that the pandemic that made so many people sick could have a healthy side effect on American politics.

Key Republican voices are accusing Biden of engaging in a stealth attempt to reshape American life.

Liberals seem to disagree.

Education must remain available and affordable for all Wisconsinites seeking to improve themselves, and in turn, improve our state.

Wisconsin congressman took a stand against Republican lies and then turned chicken.

A new report shows Gov. Tony Evers’ incompetent Department of Workforce Development has failed on two critical fronts: Getting unemployment checks to eligible claimants and protecting the state’s Unemployment Insurance system from fraud and waste.

The evidence suggests it did.

We must move towards a world where these types of catastrophe’s are less likely because we have learned that interdependence makes us all valued, safer, and secure to the challenges that will inevitably face us in the future.

The Wyoming Republican is a rigidly right-wing warmonger whose crude attacks on people of color, immigrants, Muslims and progressives carry the same venom as those of the most extreme members of her caucus — and of the 45th president, whose election in 2016 and reelection in 2020 she enthusiastically supported.

In the state of Wisconsin our budget shows the people of the state what our leaders value—and with the latest actions by the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee, I’d venture to say they don’t value the people of this state very much.

The silence of Wisconsin Republicans prior to Wednesday’s vote is especially notable given Gallagher’s previous statements of support for Cheney.

Those responsible for the insurrection shouldn’t be allowed to fade into the dustbin of history, as though nothing at all had happened.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the arguments of the anti-school choice crowd ring increasingly hollow.

Nelson has written “One Day Stronger,” recounting the successful effort to save one of those threatened mills along the Fox.

The city of Milwaukee allowed liberal, third-party groups funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to set the rules and help administer November’s presidential election, according to a new complaint filed Monday on behalf of five Milwaukee residents by the Amistad Project, an election integrity watchdog.

Vaccines are working, and we need every Wisconsinite to rally to get their shots and push this over the goal line.

Afghan school girls were targeted in a weekend attack that killed 80. Pres. Joe Biden’s withdrawal means there will be a lot more of this in the future.