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Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
The data shows the worst performance of any president since World War II.
The U.S. should adopt policies on energy, immigration and taxation that incentivize the re-shoring of critical manufacturing.
As 2021 gets underway with a new President and a new Congress, the best hope to truly stabilize the agricultural economy is not more exorbitant bailouts, but structural reform.
Milwaukee exec Jeffery Yabuki is 15th most overpaid CEO, study finds, making 428 times an average worker.
After its faculty representatives got caught pushing an apparently illegal work stoppage, Madison Teachers Inc. did what comes naturally to unions: It issued threats.
Why did 27,000 people pay for the chance to shoot a gray wolf? It’s certainly not for food.
General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
Discrimination and harassment know no partisan bounds. The only upside to speaking out against these behaviors is that someone following in your footsteps might have an easier time.
There are things I’ve seen that are well meaning acts by racial justice advocates that seem well meaning but are a real turnoff and leads to frustration and burnout from those of us who are victimized by American racism.
Egg shells are never a very solid foundation on which to have a discussion.
Hupy’s donations to Ron Johnson attacked by Minocqua brewer and law firm losing business.
Three out of every four lawmakers who went through the historical Act 10 fight exactly one decade ago are no longer in the Legislature. So where are many of those elected officials now?
Under H.R. 1, states would be prevented from enforcing voter ID laws. While Wisconsin’s key voter integrity protection wouldn’t be banned, the state could no longer demand voters show identification to obtain a mail-in ballot.
As we close out Black History Month, it is disheartening to think of how many of the old racial fights remain or have resurfaced.
Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
The data shows the worst performance of any president since World War II.
The U.S. should adopt policies on energy, immigration and taxation that incentivize the re-shoring of critical manufacturing.
As 2021 gets underway with a new President and a new Congress, the best hope to truly stabilize the agricultural economy is not more exorbitant bailouts, but structural reform.
Milwaukee exec Jeffery Yabuki is 15th most overpaid CEO, study finds, making 428 times an average worker.
After its faculty representatives got caught pushing an apparently illegal work stoppage, Madison Teachers Inc. did what comes naturally to unions: It issued threats.
Why did 27,000 people pay for the chance to shoot a gray wolf? It’s certainly not for food.
General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
Discrimination and harassment know no partisan bounds. The only upside to speaking out against these behaviors is that someone following in your footsteps might have an easier time.
There are things I’ve seen that are well meaning acts by racial justice advocates that seem well meaning but are a real turnoff and leads to frustration and burnout from those of us who are victimized by American racism.
Egg shells are never a very solid foundation on which to have a discussion.
Hupy’s donations to Ron Johnson attacked by Minocqua brewer and law firm losing business.
Three out of every four lawmakers who went through the historical Act 10 fight exactly one decade ago are no longer in the Legislature. So where are many of those elected officials now?
Under H.R. 1, states would be prevented from enforcing voter ID laws. While Wisconsin’s key voter integrity protection wouldn’t be banned, the state could no longer demand voters show identification to obtain a mail-in ballot.
As we close out Black History Month, it is disheartening to think of how many of the old racial fights remain or have resurfaced.
