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Republicans disparage entitlements, but then authorize dozens of sum sufficient appropriations for them when they craft the state budget.
Bipartisan reforms, not investigations, can restore faith in Wisconsin’s elections
The absolute worst thing the government could do to small businesses is raise the mandated minimum wage.
Not a dollar of taxes on $1.1 billion in pre-tax earnings. Among 55 corporations that paid nothing.
The DNR’s position that filling paper open records requests can wait until the pandemic passes is just the latest example of an administration that believes following the law is optional.
Three extraordinary factors are muddying the waters for budget-making at all levels of government in Wisconsin. Citizens don’t have a clue of how they will be affected.
If you truly appreciate the efforts of all frontline workers, demonstrate this by continuing to wear your mask.
It’s that same uncaring attitude that this Republican dominance of state government has brought to the health care problems in Wisconsin.
Transit, buses, ride-sharing, biking, walking should be part of the plan.
It’s time to set aside hyper-polarization and work to prevent ordinary people from needlessly dying in mass shootings.
An untold number of K-12 students appear to have “fallen off the grid” in Wisconsin during the lost year-plus of virtual education. What are Gov. Tony Evers and the education agency he led for a decade doing about these “ghost kids”?
Even if DeJoy’s slashing and burning does not immediately lead to the dismantlement of the agency, it will do severe harm to the Postal Service, and to the communities that most rely on it.
Will Madison be ready to help lead a push to at long last get the capital city of Wisconsin connected to the nation’s passenger rail system?
Former state health secretary they hated was success with state vaccine plan, and got picked as Biden’s deputy health secretary.
When civilians and police kill Black people and get away with it, we feel the same sentiments she expressed well over a century ago. The damage does not go away after the trial or non-trial. It lingers for weeks, months, years decades and centuries in our collective memories and leads to generational trauma.
If MLB is determined to give in to the hysteria and move the All-Star game, and if it is still planned to honor Aaron, let’s bring the game to Milwaukee.
Is hybrid homeschooling the future of education?
We need to lower the temperature on rhetoric about voting. One side falsely claims wide spread voter fraud while the other charges that some election law changes are, “the new Jim Crow.” Neither accusation holds up under scrutiny.
There is ample evidence to show the problems in the nation, but also the desire of citizens for action, along with their understanding such massive projects need to be paid for.
February’s winter storm in Texas caused a collapse of that state’s electrical and water systems, widespread suffering and 200 deaths. It wasn’t really the weather that caused that tragedy — it was the incompetence and ideology of the Republican-led government.
Republicans disparage entitlements, but then authorize dozens of sum sufficient appropriations for them when they craft the state budget.
Bipartisan reforms, not investigations, can restore faith in Wisconsin’s elections
The absolute worst thing the government could do to small businesses is raise the mandated minimum wage.
Not a dollar of taxes on $1.1 billion in pre-tax earnings. Among 55 corporations that paid nothing.
The DNR’s position that filling paper open records requests can wait until the pandemic passes is just the latest example of an administration that believes following the law is optional.
Three extraordinary factors are muddying the waters for budget-making at all levels of government in Wisconsin. Citizens don’t have a clue of how they will be affected.
If you truly appreciate the efforts of all frontline workers, demonstrate this by continuing to wear your mask.
It’s that same uncaring attitude that this Republican dominance of state government has brought to the health care problems in Wisconsin.
Transit, buses, ride-sharing, biking, walking should be part of the plan.
It’s time to set aside hyper-polarization and work to prevent ordinary people from needlessly dying in mass shootings.
An untold number of K-12 students appear to have “fallen off the grid” in Wisconsin during the lost year-plus of virtual education. What are Gov. Tony Evers and the education agency he led for a decade doing about these “ghost kids”?
Even if DeJoy’s slashing and burning does not immediately lead to the dismantlement of the agency, it will do severe harm to the Postal Service, and to the communities that most rely on it.
Will Madison be ready to help lead a push to at long last get the capital city of Wisconsin connected to the nation’s passenger rail system?
Former state health secretary they hated was success with state vaccine plan, and got picked as Biden’s deputy health secretary.
When civilians and police kill Black people and get away with it, we feel the same sentiments she expressed well over a century ago. The damage does not go away after the trial or non-trial. It lingers for weeks, months, years decades and centuries in our collective memories and leads to generational trauma.
If MLB is determined to give in to the hysteria and move the All-Star game, and if it is still planned to honor Aaron, let’s bring the game to Milwaukee.
Is hybrid homeschooling the future of education?
We need to lower the temperature on rhetoric about voting. One side falsely claims wide spread voter fraud while the other charges that some election law changes are, “the new Jim Crow.” Neither accusation holds up under scrutiny.
There is ample evidence to show the problems in the nation, but also the desire of citizens for action, along with their understanding such massive projects need to be paid for.
February’s winter storm in Texas caused a collapse of that state’s electrical and water systems, widespread suffering and 200 deaths. It wasn’t really the weather that caused that tragedy — it was the incompetence and ideology of the Republican-led government.
