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I suggest that Wisconsin Democrats artfully and relentlessly define who today’s state Republicans actually are. It’s not your father’s or grandfather’s serious and austere GOP.
Voters must reject a dangerous demagogue such as Van Orden to represent the 3rd CD.
GOP leadership needs to support Nass’s fight against the administrative state.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has no standing to cast stones at others, not with his shabby record of wasting taxpayer dollars.
Assembly Democrats took an even harder turn left late last month, selecting Wisconsin’s version of AOC to serve as the leader of their small caucus.
As we prepare to embark on 2022, I hope we all look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and examine ourselves and the policies we uphold and support.
We should begin each new year with a faith in its possibility. That’s especially necessary in the year that is just now beginning.
Good riddance to 2021, a year when the bad news far exceeded the good. A saving positive, however, to end the year came unexpectedly in the form of a sharply lower tax picture for Wisconsin taxpayers.
Progress was made in 2021 and some of it is profound. Here are just some examples.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their choices for the major political stories of 2021. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, bid farewell to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and consider the candidates vying to replace him. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
With former Wisconsin State Journal publisher Jim Burgess, who died Monday at age 85, the sense of commitment to community journalism started at the top.
The School Meals for All Wisconsin Act, authored by my office with state Rep. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, sets a bold vision and committed future for Wisconsin’s school meals.
The same University of Wisconsin System that has long cried poverty is signing off on double-digit pay raises for its top educrats.
Respecting the voices which have been silenced is not the same as listening to the voices of the communities which want to maintain the racist, homophobic status quo.
Manchin claims his constituents are happy with his abandonment of Build Back Better. Miners and other residents say that just isn’t so.
We have to start talking to each other again. Enough with sending up electronic flares.
A group of big business lobbyists is pushing a radical change to Wisconsin’s tax structure — one that would give huge tax cuts to the wealthy and powerful while shifting the responsibility of paying taxes to people with lower incomes.
Finally, we have a state Republican political leader willing to step forward to call out Michael Gableman’s investigation into the 2020 election for what it is: a charade and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
Outlandish fees for an overdrawn check — $38, for instance, for being a dollar overdrawn — helped spawn the formation of Barack Obama’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which initially helped tens of thousands of consumers deal with banks, credit card companies and payday loan sharks. The bureau was making progress until the Donald Trump administration happened on the scene.
I suggest that Wisconsin Democrats artfully and relentlessly define who today’s state Republicans actually are. It’s not your father’s or grandfather’s serious and austere GOP.
Voters must reject a dangerous demagogue such as Van Orden to represent the 3rd CD.
GOP leadership needs to support Nass’s fight against the administrative state.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has no standing to cast stones at others, not with his shabby record of wasting taxpayer dollars.
Assembly Democrats took an even harder turn left late last month, selecting Wisconsin’s version of AOC to serve as the leader of their small caucus.
As we prepare to embark on 2022, I hope we all look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and examine ourselves and the policies we uphold and support.
We should begin each new year with a faith in its possibility. That’s especially necessary in the year that is just now beginning.
Good riddance to 2021, a year when the bad news far exceeded the good. A saving positive, however, to end the year came unexpectedly in the form of a sharply lower tax picture for Wisconsin taxpayers.
Progress was made in 2021 and some of it is profound. Here are just some examples.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their choices for the major political stories of 2021. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, bid farewell to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and consider the candidates vying to replace him. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
With former Wisconsin State Journal publisher Jim Burgess, who died Monday at age 85, the sense of commitment to community journalism started at the top.
The School Meals for All Wisconsin Act, authored by my office with state Rep. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, sets a bold vision and committed future for Wisconsin’s school meals.
The same University of Wisconsin System that has long cried poverty is signing off on double-digit pay raises for its top educrats.
Respecting the voices which have been silenced is not the same as listening to the voices of the communities which want to maintain the racist, homophobic status quo.
Manchin claims his constituents are happy with his abandonment of Build Back Better. Miners and other residents say that just isn’t so.
We have to start talking to each other again. Enough with sending up electronic flares.
A group of big business lobbyists is pushing a radical change to Wisconsin’s tax structure — one that would give huge tax cuts to the wealthy and powerful while shifting the responsibility of paying taxes to people with lower incomes.
Finally, we have a state Republican political leader willing to step forward to call out Michael Gableman’s investigation into the 2020 election for what it is: a charade and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
Outlandish fees for an overdrawn check — $38, for instance, for being a dollar overdrawn — helped spawn the formation of Barack Obama’s Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which initially helped tens of thousands of consumers deal with banks, credit card companies and payday loan sharks. The bureau was making progress until the Donald Trump administration happened on the scene.
