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We need to broaden treatment of chronic obesity to prevent serious and costly obesity-related conditions and improve overall health and safety.

The Party of Lincoln has made itself the party of the new Jim Crow.

But Trump, Tiffany, others on far right oppose helping settle Afghans is U.S.

Cap Times Idea Fest runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, in the UW’s Memorial Union.

The emotional scars also were evident in the testimony Tuesday of Kenosha riot survivors during an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing on a riot penalty bill that proponents say is long overdue.

It’s long past time we stop allowing malicious nonsense to live rent-free in not only our heads, but in our public policy.

Our families and communities deserve leaders who are focused on governing, not those distracted by former President Trump’s and his allies’ obsession with undermining an already settled election months later.

It’s time to require vaccinations on campus.

The effort to block the UW System’s authority is both wrong on the law and wrong as a matter of public policy.

Despite what some say today, when they argue that teaching this history is divisive, I see as being the same as those segregationists in Alabama in the 1960s. They are attempting to keep us “in our place” in the same way the state troopers, Jim Clark and George Wallace did in 1965.

A year after the devastating Kenosha riots, Gov. Evers and Lt. Gov. Barnes are still peddling the same inflammatory lies about the police shooting that sparked them.

Liberal Mayor Cory Mason, City Clerk Tara Coolidge and other city officials certainly have been slow — very slow — in turning over records from November’s presidential election sought by election integrity groups and state Rep. Janel Brandtjen.

Normally, roughly 15% of the teacher workforce retires at age 55. In 2012, that number doubled to 30%.

Attorney General Josh Kaul has now gone to court to enforce state law and give Frederick Prehn a much-deserved boot off the Natural Resources Board.

Republicans might be stuck with a weak candidate as they try to retake the Senate.

Former lt. gov. and Republican candidate for governor appealing to far right?

It’s unlikely that the Republican legislators and the Democratic governor will want to go deeper than the already deep tax cuts for 2021-2023. It’s no surprise, though, that there are plenty of places to put the windfall dollars.

Increase in his ‘unfavorable’ rating looms over decision whether to run for reelection.

Up to 2,000 could come to Fort McCoy after fleeing the Taliban.

Wisconsinites deserve a plan, answers, assurances, financial assistance, and transparency before people land in this state – none of which are forthcoming.

We need to broaden treatment of chronic obesity to prevent serious and costly obesity-related conditions and improve overall health and safety.

The Party of Lincoln has made itself the party of the new Jim Crow.

But Trump, Tiffany, others on far right oppose helping settle Afghans is U.S.

Cap Times Idea Fest runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, in the UW’s Memorial Union.

The emotional scars also were evident in the testimony Tuesday of Kenosha riot survivors during an Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing on a riot penalty bill that proponents say is long overdue.

It’s long past time we stop allowing malicious nonsense to live rent-free in not only our heads, but in our public policy.

Our families and communities deserve leaders who are focused on governing, not those distracted by former President Trump’s and his allies’ obsession with undermining an already settled election months later.

It’s time to require vaccinations on campus.

The effort to block the UW System’s authority is both wrong on the law and wrong as a matter of public policy.

Despite what some say today, when they argue that teaching this history is divisive, I see as being the same as those segregationists in Alabama in the 1960s. They are attempting to keep us “in our place” in the same way the state troopers, Jim Clark and George Wallace did in 1965.

A year after the devastating Kenosha riots, Gov. Evers and Lt. Gov. Barnes are still peddling the same inflammatory lies about the police shooting that sparked them.

Liberal Mayor Cory Mason, City Clerk Tara Coolidge and other city officials certainly have been slow — very slow — in turning over records from November’s presidential election sought by election integrity groups and state Rep. Janel Brandtjen.

Normally, roughly 15% of the teacher workforce retires at age 55. In 2012, that number doubled to 30%.

Attorney General Josh Kaul has now gone to court to enforce state law and give Frederick Prehn a much-deserved boot off the Natural Resources Board.

Republicans might be stuck with a weak candidate as they try to retake the Senate.

Former lt. gov. and Republican candidate for governor appealing to far right?

It’s unlikely that the Republican legislators and the Democratic governor will want to go deeper than the already deep tax cuts for 2021-2023. It’s no surprise, though, that there are plenty of places to put the windfall dollars.

Increase in his ‘unfavorable’ rating looms over decision whether to run for reelection.

Up to 2,000 could come to Fort McCoy after fleeing the Taliban.

Wisconsinites deserve a plan, answers, assurances, financial assistance, and transparency before people land in this state – none of which are forthcoming.