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I’m sure he didn’t intend to, but Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s research director Will Flanders let the cat out of the bag in comments he made in a recent newspaper story about supposed voting irregularities that somehow gave Joe Biden the edge in 2020.
Another Corrections employee is stepping forward to post concerns about the Evers administration’s COVID-19 testing mandate, a mandate that looks to prove costly for taxpayers and prison security.
As if we needed more evidence that the Democrats’ move to the left is going to destroy their chances in the mid-terms, we got more of it this morning.
It’s time to rename James Madison Memorial High School.
You could de-congest all the ports and unload Wisconsin’s share for super fast delivery to businesses and homes in the Badger State, but Wisconsin and our future as the climate crisis unfolds will continue to degrade until policy-makers put public trust water, air, land and wildlife first.
For those of us who cherish the beauty of our wondrous land, the weeks before Halloween came with two big treats that reversed a couple of dirty tricks from the Donald Trump administration.
All of us here in Wisconsin, on all sides of various political aisles, need to treat our state’s low reading scores like the crisis it is.
Despite the alarmingly low test scores, there appears to be little to no outrage by the media and education establishment.
The recall campaign against four incumbents on the Mequon-Thiensville School Board — Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan and Chris Schultz — has turned particularly nasty, as the establishment looks to hold the line against a grassroots campaign driven by fed-up parents.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Pocan and Moore signed on as co-sponsors for legislation that would identify, investigate and expel members of the House who aided and abetted the seditionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A weird fringe of the hunting sector isn’t doing the sport’s image any favors.
Ronald Reagan’s nationally televised address, “A Time for Choosing,” was the manifesto of the modern conservative movement.
Wisconsin is fed up with extreme gerrymandering in the state Legislature.
Wisconsin’s a leader in counting prisoners to inflate rural areas and rob urban areas of representation.
There will now be three investigations—by the Legislative Audit Bureau, the Assembly and the Senate—into how November 2020 elections were run by 1,835 municipal clerks and 72 county clerks and overseen by the state Elections Commission.
No-knock warrants have become embedded in policing toolkits and it is difficult to convince many in law enforcement that their use should be banned. Yet, we know that both innocent civilians and officers have been injured or lost their lives, as a result of this practice.
The IRS estimates that it misses about 15% of the taxes owed each year with almost all that amount from the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers.
The “Build Back Better” framework announced by Biden is historic and transformative.
It’s getting really hard to figure out what the Wisconsin Republicans believe about our election procedures.
Street racing, “red light roulette,” and driving on sidewalks—all of these things are reckless driving realities across the state of Wisconsin and especially in the City of Milwaukee.
I’m sure he didn’t intend to, but Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s research director Will Flanders let the cat out of the bag in comments he made in a recent newspaper story about supposed voting irregularities that somehow gave Joe Biden the edge in 2020.
Another Corrections employee is stepping forward to post concerns about the Evers administration’s COVID-19 testing mandate, a mandate that looks to prove costly for taxpayers and prison security.
As if we needed more evidence that the Democrats’ move to the left is going to destroy their chances in the mid-terms, we got more of it this morning.
It’s time to rename James Madison Memorial High School.
You could de-congest all the ports and unload Wisconsin’s share for super fast delivery to businesses and homes in the Badger State, but Wisconsin and our future as the climate crisis unfolds will continue to degrade until policy-makers put public trust water, air, land and wildlife first.
For those of us who cherish the beauty of our wondrous land, the weeks before Halloween came with two big treats that reversed a couple of dirty tricks from the Donald Trump administration.
All of us here in Wisconsin, on all sides of various political aisles, need to treat our state’s low reading scores like the crisis it is.
Despite the alarmingly low test scores, there appears to be little to no outrage by the media and education establishment.
The recall campaign against four incumbents on the Mequon-Thiensville School Board — Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan and Chris Schultz — has turned particularly nasty, as the establishment looks to hold the line against a grassroots campaign driven by fed-up parents.
After the Jan. 6 insurrection, Pocan and Moore signed on as co-sponsors for legislation that would identify, investigate and expel members of the House who aided and abetted the seditionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A weird fringe of the hunting sector isn’t doing the sport’s image any favors.
Ronald Reagan’s nationally televised address, “A Time for Choosing,” was the manifesto of the modern conservative movement.
Wisconsin is fed up with extreme gerrymandering in the state Legislature.
Wisconsin’s a leader in counting prisoners to inflate rural areas and rob urban areas of representation.
There will now be three investigations—by the Legislative Audit Bureau, the Assembly and the Senate—into how November 2020 elections were run by 1,835 municipal clerks and 72 county clerks and overseen by the state Elections Commission.
No-knock warrants have become embedded in policing toolkits and it is difficult to convince many in law enforcement that their use should be banned. Yet, we know that both innocent civilians and officers have been injured or lost their lives, as a result of this practice.
The IRS estimates that it misses about 15% of the taxes owed each year with almost all that amount from the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers.
The “Build Back Better” framework announced by Biden is historic and transformative.
It’s getting really hard to figure out what the Wisconsin Republicans believe about our election procedures.
Street racing, “red light roulette,” and driving on sidewalks—all of these things are reckless driving realities across the state of Wisconsin and especially in the City of Milwaukee.
