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The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday passed a joint resolution that aims to end Gov. Tony Evers’ endless emergency declaration and his statewide mask mandate.
Bad Yemen policy predates the outgoing administration, but things got worse under Trump.
It is high time to create a statewide eligibility standard. Sen. Dale Kooyenga’s bill does just that by raising the eligibility standard to 300% of the federal poverty limit for the WPCP, matching the programs in Milwaukee and Racine.
His choice of Joe Biden was decisive and may have been the only Democrat who could beat Trump.
Immediately after the ceremonies, Biden went about the business of dismantling as much of his predecessor’s legacy as he could with a series of executive orders.
On day one, Biden signed a number of executive orders to reverse many Trump era policies. However, we can’t continue to be a nation governed by executive order ensuring that our policies change with each election. We have to do the work.
It is the duty of the party that created the damage to aid in repairing our institutional foundations.
Without a more democratic America we will not win health care for all, decent wages and jobs for all workers, meaningful action to fight climate change, or real policies to dismantle the systemic racism that plagues our nation.
I don’t have a problem with Belichick or anyone else – like his former quarterback Tom Brady and team owner Robert Kraft – being friends with Trump. People are free to have their own choice in choosing their politics and their friends. But let’s not act like this riot and attempted coup, fomented by Trump, is somehow waking you up coach.
Michael Ferris joined the Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss a data-based planning tool called “Wisconsin Expansion of Renewable Electricity with Optimization under Long-term Forecasts” (WEREWOLF) he developed with Thompson Center faculty research funding.
While a once unfathomable global pandemic continues to affect how we approach nearly every area of our lives, hope helps us realize much better days are within reach.
Gov. Tony Evers recently extended his mask mandate, which originally went into place in July, through March 20.
Everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should be gravely troubled by a governor who steadfastly refuses to recognize limits on his authority.
Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.
When educational options are limited, Wisconsin loses. Conversely, when parents are trusted with the educational direction and choices for their children, Wisconsin Wins.
That describes the Republican-inspired contention that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was essentially the same as the protests at Wisconsin’s state Capitol over the union-destroying Act 10 back in 2011. What rubbish.
New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine the new dynamic between the Republican leaders of the Assembly and Senate.
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden eloquently condemned racism and nativism and called for an end to America’s “uncivil war.”
As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.
The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday passed a joint resolution that aims to end Gov. Tony Evers’ endless emergency declaration and his statewide mask mandate.
Bad Yemen policy predates the outgoing administration, but things got worse under Trump.
It is high time to create a statewide eligibility standard. Sen. Dale Kooyenga’s bill does just that by raising the eligibility standard to 300% of the federal poverty limit for the WPCP, matching the programs in Milwaukee and Racine.
His choice of Joe Biden was decisive and may have been the only Democrat who could beat Trump.
Immediately after the ceremonies, Biden went about the business of dismantling as much of his predecessor’s legacy as he could with a series of executive orders.
On day one, Biden signed a number of executive orders to reverse many Trump era policies. However, we can’t continue to be a nation governed by executive order ensuring that our policies change with each election. We have to do the work.
It is the duty of the party that created the damage to aid in repairing our institutional foundations.
Without a more democratic America we will not win health care for all, decent wages and jobs for all workers, meaningful action to fight climate change, or real policies to dismantle the systemic racism that plagues our nation.
I don’t have a problem with Belichick or anyone else – like his former quarterback Tom Brady and team owner Robert Kraft – being friends with Trump. People are free to have their own choice in choosing their politics and their friends. But let’s not act like this riot and attempted coup, fomented by Trump, is somehow waking you up coach.
Michael Ferris joined the Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss a data-based planning tool called “Wisconsin Expansion of Renewable Electricity with Optimization under Long-term Forecasts” (WEREWOLF) he developed with Thompson Center faculty research funding.
While a once unfathomable global pandemic continues to affect how we approach nearly every area of our lives, hope helps us realize much better days are within reach.
Gov. Tony Evers recently extended his mask mandate, which originally went into place in July, through March 20.
Everyone, regardless of political persuasion, should be gravely troubled by a governor who steadfastly refuses to recognize limits on his authority.
Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.
When educational options are limited, Wisconsin loses. Conversely, when parents are trusted with the educational direction and choices for their children, Wisconsin Wins.
That describes the Republican-inspired contention that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was essentially the same as the protests at Wisconsin’s state Capitol over the union-destroying Act 10 back in 2011. What rubbish.
New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, examine the new dynamic between the Republican leaders of the Assembly and Senate.
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden eloquently condemned racism and nativism and called for an end to America’s “uncivil war.”
As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.
