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Gov. Tony Evers recently extended his mask mandate, which originally went into place in July, through March 20.
Everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should be gravely troubled by a governor who steadfastly refuses to recognize limits on his authority.
Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.
When educational options are limited, Wisconsin loses. Conversely, when parents are trusted with the educational direction and choices for their children, Wisconsin Wins.
That describes the Republican-inspired contention that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was essentially the same as the protests at Wisconsin’s state Capitol over the union-destroying Act 10 back in 2011. What rubbish.
New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine the new dynamic between the Republican leaders of the Assembly and Senate.
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden eloquently condemned racism and nativism and called for an end to America’s “uncivil war.”
As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.
Exposing systemic racism in criminal “justice.”
In a 5-1 vote—with Republican appointees Dean Knudson and Marge Bostelmann joining the three Democrat appointees—the Commission prevented the deployment of special voting deputies to care facilities for the upcoming spring primary on February 16th.
Stein provides an in-depth analysis on WPF’s study of Wisconsin higher education.
Nearly 90% of school districts laid off only five or fewer employees as of June. No administrators were laid off.
It’s up to Timberlake to pull together important players in the supply chain for vaccine and providers who can inject the vaccine. The effort to date has been disjointed at best and mismanaged at worst.
10% of construction workers bilked of $23,500 per year on average.
Clean energy represents a rare opportunity to identify common sense policy and find common ground politically.
Under current law, candidates will begin circulating nomination papers for the 2022 fall elections on April 15, 2022. So any redistricting litigation must be resolved prior to April 15, 2022.
As President Donald Trump leaves office, his central legacy will be the mess he has left for Joe Biden to clean up.
After four deplorable years of the Trump administration, it appears our democracy will go on. But many Americans did not, sadly, survive America’s fascination with radical Trumpery.
Please stop the lies, stop fueling far-right threats to our democracy.
Gov. Tony Evers recently extended his mask mandate, which originally went into place in July, through March 20.
Everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should be gravely troubled by a governor who steadfastly refuses to recognize limits on his authority.
Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.
When educational options are limited, Wisconsin loses. Conversely, when parents are trusted with the educational direction and choices for their children, Wisconsin Wins.
That describes the Republican-inspired contention that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was essentially the same as the protests at Wisconsin’s state Capitol over the union-destroying Act 10 back in 2011. What rubbish.
New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine the new dynamic between the Republican leaders of the Assembly and Senate.
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden eloquently condemned racism and nativism and called for an end to America’s “uncivil war.”
As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.
Exposing systemic racism in criminal “justice.”
In a 5-1 vote—with Republican appointees Dean Knudson and Marge Bostelmann joining the three Democrat appointees—the Commission prevented the deployment of special voting deputies to care facilities for the upcoming spring primary on February 16th.
Stein provides an in-depth analysis on WPF’s study of Wisconsin higher education.
Nearly 90% of school districts laid off only five or fewer employees as of June. No administrators were laid off.
It’s up to Timberlake to pull together important players in the supply chain for vaccine and providers who can inject the vaccine. The effort to date has been disjointed at best and mismanaged at worst.
10% of construction workers bilked of $23,500 per year on average.
Clean energy represents a rare opportunity to identify common sense policy and find common ground politically.
Under current law, candidates will begin circulating nomination papers for the 2022 fall elections on April 15, 2022. So any redistricting litigation must be resolved prior to April 15, 2022.
As President Donald Trump leaves office, his central legacy will be the mess he has left for Joe Biden to clean up.
After four deplorable years of the Trump administration, it appears our democracy will go on. But many Americans did not, sadly, survive America’s fascination with radical Trumpery.
Please stop the lies, stop fueling far-right threats to our democracy.