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That first Earth Day showed that citizens, united and energized in appreciation of our environment, can truly make a difference.
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That first Earth Day showed that citizens, united and energized in appreciation of our environment, can truly make a difference.

While we continue to push for full legalization at the state level, and call on the Republicans who control the legislature to finally represent the will of their constituents on this issue, WI-CAN will be doing everything we can to reduce or remove penalties for marijuana possession at the local level across the state.

Wisconsin can take a step forward in our efforts to protect individuals from rising health care costs by ensuring that health plans count copay assistance toward a patient’s maximum out-of-pocket cost or annual deductible.

6% of children have serious problems. Numbers may have risen during pandemic.

One former Milwaukee radio personality apparently has a special place in Johnson’s world.

Several impressive candidates looking to defeat Ron Johnson. Who’s the front runner?

When I asked Sarah Godlewski how she sees her bid for the U.S. Senate in the context of Wisconsin political history, her response was immediate. And blunt.

The Taliban are a bunch or psychopaths. And now we’re going to give them a country back.

While he will be remembered as a national model for standing up against woke campus bureaucrats, he will be more personally remembered by an army of conservative students that finally got to hear a voice in a classroom that wasn’t hostile to their ideas.

Annette Ziegler has paid her dues with 24 years of service on the bench at the local level and on the Supreme Court.

The UW System has been trying to get the attention of the GOP-led legislature and State Building Commission for years.

If we further tamper with the makeup of the court, we could set in motion a form of political volleyball, in which no team is the permanent winner. In fact, it is our justice system that will lose.

The Convention of States movement to rein in the ever-expanding federal government has been energized in the first three months of a Biden administration governing by executive fiat, according to a leader of the national campaign.

The effects of Donald Trump’s presidency on the Republican Party of Wisconsin are continuing, and no speaker at a state GOP event appears to be beyond the pale.

In the wake of what seems to be a never-ending cycle of mass murder violence; six mass shootings in a matter of five weeks, our pandemic of violence is taking a toll on our collective sense of safety in this country.

This Earth Day, we must do more than plant trees or pick up litter. We must call on leaders to take climate action.

Multiple studies have proven that there is a link between criminal behavior and adverse childhood experiences.

We can’t assume that people know enough about the Holocaust, or about the duty we all have to stand up to those who would deny or dismiss this historical reality.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss how Jill Underly will lead Wisconsin’s schools and look back at partisan involvement in the non-partisan state superintendent’s election.

Millennial authors Jill Filipovic and Helen Andrews have new books that blame pretty much everything wrong with America on the post-World War II generation.

That first Earth Day showed that citizens, united and energized in appreciation of our environment, can truly make a difference.

While we continue to push for full legalization at the state level, and call on the Republicans who control the legislature to finally represent the will of their constituents on this issue, WI-CAN will be doing everything we can to reduce or remove penalties for marijuana possession at the local level across the state.

Wisconsin can take a step forward in our efforts to protect individuals from rising health care costs by ensuring that health plans count copay assistance toward a patient’s maximum out-of-pocket cost or annual deductible.

6% of children have serious problems. Numbers may have risen during pandemic.

One former Milwaukee radio personality apparently has a special place in Johnson’s world.

Several impressive candidates looking to defeat Ron Johnson. Who’s the front runner?

When I asked Sarah Godlewski how she sees her bid for the U.S. Senate in the context of Wisconsin political history, her response was immediate. And blunt.

The Taliban are a bunch or psychopaths. And now we’re going to give them a country back.

While he will be remembered as a national model for standing up against woke campus bureaucrats, he will be more personally remembered by an army of conservative students that finally got to hear a voice in a classroom that wasn’t hostile to their ideas.

Annette Ziegler has paid her dues with 24 years of service on the bench at the local level and on the Supreme Court.

The UW System has been trying to get the attention of the GOP-led legislature and State Building Commission for years.

If we further tamper with the makeup of the court, we could set in motion a form of political volleyball, in which no team is the permanent winner. In fact, it is our justice system that will lose.

The Convention of States movement to rein in the ever-expanding federal government has been energized in the first three months of a Biden administration governing by executive fiat, according to a leader of the national campaign.

The effects of Donald Trump’s presidency on the Republican Party of Wisconsin are continuing, and no speaker at a state GOP event appears to be beyond the pale.

In the wake of what seems to be a never-ending cycle of mass murder violence; six mass shootings in a matter of five weeks, our pandemic of violence is taking a toll on our collective sense of safety in this country.

This Earth Day, we must do more than plant trees or pick up litter. We must call on leaders to take climate action.

Multiple studies have proven that there is a link between criminal behavior and adverse childhood experiences.

We can’t assume that people know enough about the Holocaust, or about the duty we all have to stand up to those who would deny or dismiss this historical reality.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss how Jill Underly will lead Wisconsin’s schools and look back at partisan involvement in the non-partisan state superintendent’s election.

Millennial authors Jill Filipovic and Helen Andrews have new books that blame pretty much everything wrong with America on the post-World War II generation.