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Democratic Senate candidates are demanding that their party’s caucus stop compromising on filibuster reform, infrastructure, voting rights, and budgets.
In Wisconsin, the resulting ripple effect could negatively impact our booming economy of biohealth researchers, manufacturers and additional suppliers.
You could easily mistake a map of vaccination rates across the country for a map of the 2020 presidential election returns.
As Evers last week signed a bipartisan reform bill on police use of deadly force, he killed a measure that would have taken state funding from local governments that cut their law enforcement budgets.
Given the significant uncertainties resulting from the February 2021 hunt, there isn’t a quota number for a fall wolf hunt that can be justified if we want to maintain stability of our wolf population.
Why Congress must pass the For the People Act
Forty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored a court order to return to work and banned them from federal service for life.
The $1 trillion package — with its $550 billion worth of new investment in transportation, water, broadband, energy and the environment — would modernize our nation’s infrastructure.
Two-thirds of adult Americans did not go to college at all or complete a four-year degree. Where’s the fairness in asking them to pay back the loans of those earning so much more?
Like legislators from more than 30 states, I joined other Wisconsin Democratic elected officials in calling for the U.S. Senate to pass the For the People Act.
For the sake of Wisconsin’s future, please urge your representatives to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure framework and the budget reconciliation plan.
The legal battle, now before a Wisconsin appeals court, could have far-reaching consequences for civil liberties and the threshold for judicial recusal.
While the continued forbearance is most helpful, true and substantive cancellation of a portion of the debt is the policy path that must be implemented.
The precautions I take on a motorcycle help me safely enjoy my ride and spend time with family and friends. These are the same types of reasons I got the COVID-19 shot months ago.
Evers’ message was an important one. But no one is going to accuse him of being too blunt.
Freedom’s just another word for … acute respiratory distress.
My real beef with Florida is that it’s a state that caters to so many people who have few scruples.
Many cities don’t solve the majority of murders. Milwaukee does far better.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider how today’s current issues will impact Wisconsin’s 2022 elections.
Authors Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig will be on stage on opening night of the in-person portion of our fifth annual Cap Times Idea Fest on Friday, Sept. 17.
Democratic Senate candidates are demanding that their party’s caucus stop compromising on filibuster reform, infrastructure, voting rights, and budgets.
In Wisconsin, the resulting ripple effect could negatively impact our booming economy of biohealth researchers, manufacturers and additional suppliers.
You could easily mistake a map of vaccination rates across the country for a map of the 2020 presidential election returns.
As Evers last week signed a bipartisan reform bill on police use of deadly force, he killed a measure that would have taken state funding from local governments that cut their law enforcement budgets.
Given the significant uncertainties resulting from the February 2021 hunt, there isn’t a quota number for a fall wolf hunt that can be justified if we want to maintain stability of our wolf population.
Why Congress must pass the For the People Act
Forty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored a court order to return to work and banned them from federal service for life.
The $1 trillion package — with its $550 billion worth of new investment in transportation, water, broadband, energy and the environment — would modernize our nation’s infrastructure.
Two-thirds of adult Americans did not go to college at all or complete a four-year degree. Where’s the fairness in asking them to pay back the loans of those earning so much more?
Like legislators from more than 30 states, I joined other Wisconsin Democratic elected officials in calling for the U.S. Senate to pass the For the People Act.
For the sake of Wisconsin’s future, please urge your representatives to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure framework and the budget reconciliation plan.
The legal battle, now before a Wisconsin appeals court, could have far-reaching consequences for civil liberties and the threshold for judicial recusal.
While the continued forbearance is most helpful, true and substantive cancellation of a portion of the debt is the policy path that must be implemented.
The precautions I take on a motorcycle help me safely enjoy my ride and spend time with family and friends. These are the same types of reasons I got the COVID-19 shot months ago.
Evers’ message was an important one. But no one is going to accuse him of being too blunt.
Freedom’s just another word for … acute respiratory distress.
My real beef with Florida is that it’s a state that caters to so many people who have few scruples.
Many cities don’t solve the majority of murders. Milwaukee does far better.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider how today’s current issues will impact Wisconsin’s 2022 elections.
Authors Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig will be on stage on opening night of the in-person portion of our fifth annual Cap Times Idea Fest on Friday, Sept. 17.