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Public assistance should be a trampoline, not a hammock.

It’s time to make clear that not everything has a price and that Wisconsin courts won’t be bought off.

In a state where voters split on nearly everything, we can all agree on the need for criminal justice reform.

The intolerance of the hard-left will go out of fashion soon enough.

Recent polls confirm a drop in allegiance, even among American Jews, where two-thirds of those over 65 still admit an emotional attachment to Israel while it drops to under 50% for younger generations of American Jews.

Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan’s “special guest” status next Tuesday at Sen. Brad Pfaff’s posh fundraiser in Madison is a departure from the days of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who forbade his secretaries from shilling for political campaigns.

COVID-19 is the gift that elites seeking to sell online education could not possibly have imagined.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, gauge the political tussle between Gov. Tony Evers and GOP legislators to mesh billions in federal COVID relief funds with the state budget.

The critical divide is not between the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party, or even between Democrats and Republicans, but between those who stand for truth and those who do not.

Prisons aren’t cheap and there won’t be a cheap solution to this staffing shortage. Are we willing to spend what’s necessary to have safe streets?

That is not to say that racial discrimination in sentencing may not exist; it certainly may. But the Office of Research and Justice Statistics study does not produce sufficient evidence to reasonably allow one to come to that conclusion.

During Mental Health Awareness Month and beyond, it’s important that we have conversations about our mental health needs and fully understand it’s OK to not be OK.

The co-chairs of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee say Gov. Tony Evers is only making budget-writing more difficult by refusing to talk to Republican leadership and governing by press release.

Epidemiologically speaking, herd immunity is a valid and important concept, but perhaps we should focus elsewhere.

The botched deal has now been cleaned up by the Evers administration, but what happened with Foxconn is more than just a deal gone bad. It was the byproduct of years of Wisconsin Republican policy.

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.

Public assistance should be a trampoline, not a hammock.

It’s time to make clear that not everything has a price and that Wisconsin courts won’t be bought off.

In a state where voters split on nearly everything, we can all agree on the need for criminal justice reform.

The intolerance of the hard-left will go out of fashion soon enough.

Recent polls confirm a drop in allegiance, even among American Jews, where two-thirds of those over 65 still admit an emotional attachment to Israel while it drops to under 50% for younger generations of American Jews.

Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan’s “special guest” status next Tuesday at Sen. Brad Pfaff’s posh fundraiser in Madison is a departure from the days of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who forbade his secretaries from shilling for political campaigns.

COVID-19 is the gift that elites seeking to sell online education could not possibly have imagined.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, gauge the political tussle between Gov. Tony Evers and GOP legislators to mesh billions in federal COVID relief funds with the state budget.

The critical divide is not between the progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party, or even between Democrats and Republicans, but between those who stand for truth and those who do not.

Prisons aren’t cheap and there won’t be a cheap solution to this staffing shortage. Are we willing to spend what’s necessary to have safe streets?

That is not to say that racial discrimination in sentencing may not exist; it certainly may. But the Office of Research and Justice Statistics study does not produce sufficient evidence to reasonably allow one to come to that conclusion.

During Mental Health Awareness Month and beyond, it’s important that we have conversations about our mental health needs and fully understand it’s OK to not be OK.

The co-chairs of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee say Gov. Tony Evers is only making budget-writing more difficult by refusing to talk to Republican leadership and governing by press release.

Epidemiologically speaking, herd immunity is a valid and important concept, but perhaps we should focus elsewhere.

The botched deal has now been cleaned up by the Evers administration, but what happened with Foxconn is more than just a deal gone bad. It was the byproduct of years of Wisconsin Republican policy.

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.