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Republicans are right when they say the core of COVID-19 response measures, from testing and tracking of the disease to protecting the state’s most vulnerable populations and its health workers, rests on this administration’s shoulders — for better or worse.
While the governor repeats his dire warning that Wisconsin will be in trouble after December 31, the fact is that Wisconsin is currently in a positive place financially.
As we continue to grapple with the devastating impacts of COVID-19 in our state and nation, we must also acknowledge that this remains a critical time to keep people connected in an effort to keep them safe.
The overreaching contact tracing models currently in place not only penalize children’s educational attainment but contribute to health care staffing shortfalls.
Even amid global uncertainty and an economic downturn, Foxconn has demonstrated a commitment to making business work in Wisconsin.
As of Wednesday, we are skirting the 8,000 mark of new cases. And with that sobering statistic citizens want to know what number it will take to propel Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos into action in the legislature?
With my creditors hounding me, I am appealing to you, Governor Evers, and your staff, to help me and all other unemployed Wisconsin citizens who need your help.
While we know that Trump will eventually be forced to leave, the political monster he created is very much alive, and that should be of grave concern to all of us.
By ignoring the plain letter of state law requiring trained deputies to administer elections in nursing homes and care facilities, the Wisconsin Elections Commission made preying upon this state’s most vulnerable even easier.
Donald Trump is still refusing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.
WILL has more funding, more staff, more Harvard. Can a new liberal law group compete?
How we treat people with arrest and conviction records gets to the heart of who we want to be as individuals and a society.
When people foil the vote suppressors, as Wisconsin citizens did on Nov. 3, the real cheaters lose.
The people have spoken, and now our government must deliver on their demands. The campaigning and voting is over, and it’s time for the governing to begin.
Drawing maps with an emphasis on promoting partisan competition, and the consensus-focused politics it yields, would do more than make the Legislature more responsive to Wisconsin’s challenges. Equally important, it would achieve citizen confidence in the process and affirm that democracy exists at the state level.
The study found unionization and politics were more important to the decision to close the schools.
Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday released his COVID-19 “relief package” with a half-billion-dollar-plus price tag that would be mainly born by state taxpayers.
Lots of new votes for both parties in election. What does it mean for the future?
Like a number of other predominantly Native American counties nationwide, Menominee voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats this year — as did precincts with substantial Native populations in other northern Wisconsin counties that backed Biden and Harris, such as Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas.
Conservative senators long urging leadership to schedule a confirmation hearing and send Wisconsin’s controversial health czar packing may not get the chance.
Republicans are right when they say the core of COVID-19 response measures, from testing and tracking of the disease to protecting the state’s most vulnerable populations and its health workers, rests on this administration’s shoulders — for better or worse.
While the governor repeats his dire warning that Wisconsin will be in trouble after December 31, the fact is that Wisconsin is currently in a positive place financially.
As we continue to grapple with the devastating impacts of COVID-19 in our state and nation, we must also acknowledge that this remains a critical time to keep people connected in an effort to keep them safe.
The overreaching contact tracing models currently in place not only penalize children’s educational attainment but contribute to health care staffing shortfalls.
Even amid global uncertainty and an economic downturn, Foxconn has demonstrated a commitment to making business work in Wisconsin.
As of Wednesday, we are skirting the 8,000 mark of new cases. And with that sobering statistic citizens want to know what number it will take to propel Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos into action in the legislature?
With my creditors hounding me, I am appealing to you, Governor Evers, and your staff, to help me and all other unemployed Wisconsin citizens who need your help.
While we know that Trump will eventually be forced to leave, the political monster he created is very much alive, and that should be of grave concern to all of us.
By ignoring the plain letter of state law requiring trained deputies to administer elections in nursing homes and care facilities, the Wisconsin Elections Commission made preying upon this state’s most vulnerable even easier.
Donald Trump is still refusing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.
WILL has more funding, more staff, more Harvard. Can a new liberal law group compete?
How we treat people with arrest and conviction records gets to the heart of who we want to be as individuals and a society.
When people foil the vote suppressors, as Wisconsin citizens did on Nov. 3, the real cheaters lose.
The people have spoken, and now our government must deliver on their demands. The campaigning and voting is over, and it’s time for the governing to begin.
Drawing maps with an emphasis on promoting partisan competition, and the consensus-focused politics it yields, would do more than make the Legislature more responsive to Wisconsin’s challenges. Equally important, it would achieve citizen confidence in the process and affirm that democracy exists at the state level.
The study found unionization and politics were more important to the decision to close the schools.
Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday released his COVID-19 “relief package” with a half-billion-dollar-plus price tag that would be mainly born by state taxpayers.
Lots of new votes for both parties in election. What does it mean for the future?
Like a number of other predominantly Native American counties nationwide, Menominee voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats this year — as did precincts with substantial Native populations in other northern Wisconsin counties that backed Biden and Harris, such as Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas.
Conservative senators long urging leadership to schedule a confirmation hearing and send Wisconsin’s controversial health czar packing may not get the chance.
