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Regardless of which political party one calls home, there was a degree of understanding across Wisconsin about how Kevin Nicholson felt being instructed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to stem any notion of seeking the Republican nomination for governor this August.
Not satisfied with the approximately $4.5 billion in federal COVID relief aid he has been free to spend at his whim and leisure, Evers now wants to take a big chunk of the projected $3.8 billion state budget surplus and buy off voters with quick-cash stimmies.
Wisconsin families deserve more than excuses. They deserve decisive and swift action. As attorney general, I will put an end to the policies that are placing us at risk.
Pulling cops out of public schools was a crazy idea.
It goes without saying that the latest attempts by Republican legislators to expand gun rights in the state aren’t in Matt Rothschild’s new book “12 Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin.”
Mandela Barnes is running as if he’s already got his party’s nomination sewn up. I’m not so sure that kind of cautious approach is going to win the day.
It is all of our business to worry about rural health.
Billionaires got exponentially richer — so much so that wealth trackers began to speculate on whether Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk would be the first trillionaire.
Tech titan Intel Corp. chose Ohio over Wisconsin as the future home of its $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing complex —an economic boon for the Buckeye State that Intel promises will bring thousands of high-paying jobs.
Let’s just cut to the chase. It comes down to this: which Black woman jurist will be acceptable to Sen. Joe Manchin?
Young people are the future of a society that values the sanctity of innocent life. Thankfully, more and more students understand that being pro-life is the social justice issue of our time.
Traditional Medicare must continue to be the model for all U.S. health care, not another target for profiteers.
He’s a traitor to America, and it’s time Americans faced up to it.
Gov. Tony Evers again was quick to take credit for rosy state budget projections that he’s had little to do with.
Almost as soon as the Legislative Fiscal Bureau announced a projected $3.8 billion budget surplus, Governor Evers brazenly tried to gaslight Wisconsin by pretending he supported the Republican plan that created it.
Republican leadership in the Legislature continues to insist it won’t foolishly invest money in education; instead it will prudently make tax cuts so we can snatch austerity out of the jaws of a record surplus.
Unlike some of her progressive competitors for the Democratic Senate nomination, she has strong business and national security credentials and has won in two statewide contests in the key swing state.
Voter turnout may decide which two candidates get through primary.
Selective extension of adulthood doesn’t make sense.
Events are proving the Evers/Vos bipartisan budget is one of the greatest fiascos in Wisconsin fiscal history.
Regardless of which political party one calls home, there was a degree of understanding across Wisconsin about how Kevin Nicholson felt being instructed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to stem any notion of seeking the Republican nomination for governor this August.
Not satisfied with the approximately $4.5 billion in federal COVID relief aid he has been free to spend at his whim and leisure, Evers now wants to take a big chunk of the projected $3.8 billion state budget surplus and buy off voters with quick-cash stimmies.
Wisconsin families deserve more than excuses. They deserve decisive and swift action. As attorney general, I will put an end to the policies that are placing us at risk.
Pulling cops out of public schools was a crazy idea.
It goes without saying that the latest attempts by Republican legislators to expand gun rights in the state aren’t in Matt Rothschild’s new book “12 Ways to Save Democracy in Wisconsin.”
Mandela Barnes is running as if he’s already got his party’s nomination sewn up. I’m not so sure that kind of cautious approach is going to win the day.
It is all of our business to worry about rural health.
Billionaires got exponentially richer — so much so that wealth trackers began to speculate on whether Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk would be the first trillionaire.
Tech titan Intel Corp. chose Ohio over Wisconsin as the future home of its $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing complex —an economic boon for the Buckeye State that Intel promises will bring thousands of high-paying jobs.
Let’s just cut to the chase. It comes down to this: which Black woman jurist will be acceptable to Sen. Joe Manchin?
Young people are the future of a society that values the sanctity of innocent life. Thankfully, more and more students understand that being pro-life is the social justice issue of our time.
Traditional Medicare must continue to be the model for all U.S. health care, not another target for profiteers.
He’s a traitor to America, and it’s time Americans faced up to it.
Gov. Tony Evers again was quick to take credit for rosy state budget projections that he’s had little to do with.
Almost as soon as the Legislative Fiscal Bureau announced a projected $3.8 billion budget surplus, Governor Evers brazenly tried to gaslight Wisconsin by pretending he supported the Republican plan that created it.
Republican leadership in the Legislature continues to insist it won’t foolishly invest money in education; instead it will prudently make tax cuts so we can snatch austerity out of the jaws of a record surplus.
Unlike some of her progressive competitors for the Democratic Senate nomination, she has strong business and national security credentials and has won in two statewide contests in the key swing state.
Voter turnout may decide which two candidates get through primary.
Selective extension of adulthood doesn’t make sense.
Events are proving the Evers/Vos bipartisan budget is one of the greatest fiascos in Wisconsin fiscal history.
