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Wisconsin congressman took a stand against Republican lies and then turned chicken.
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Wisconsin congressman took a stand against Republican lies and then turned chicken.

A new report shows Gov. Tony Evers’ incompetent Department of Workforce Development has failed on two critical fronts: Getting unemployment checks to eligible claimants and protecting the state’s Unemployment Insurance system from fraud and waste.

The evidence suggests it did.

We must move towards a world where these types of catastrophe’s are less likely because we have learned that interdependence makes us all valued, safer, and secure to the challenges that will inevitably face us in the future.

The Wyoming Republican is a rigidly right-wing warmonger whose crude attacks on people of color, immigrants, Muslims and progressives carry the same venom as those of the most extreme members of her caucus — and of the 45th president, whose election in 2016 and reelection in 2020 she enthusiastically supported.

In the state of Wisconsin our budget shows the people of the state what our leaders value—and with the latest actions by the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee, I’d venture to say they don’t value the people of this state very much.

The silence of Wisconsin Republicans prior to Wednesday’s vote is especially notable given Gallagher’s previous statements of support for Cheney.

Those responsible for the insurrection shouldn’t be allowed to fade into the dustbin of history, as though nothing at all had happened.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the arguments of the anti-school choice crowd ring increasingly hollow.

Nelson has written “One Day Stronger,” recounting the successful effort to save one of those threatened mills along the Fox.

The city of Milwaukee allowed liberal, third-party groups funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to set the rules and help administer November’s presidential election, according to a new complaint filed Monday on behalf of five Milwaukee residents by the Amistad Project, an election integrity watchdog.

Vaccines are working, and we need every Wisconsinite to rally to get their shots and push this over the goal line.

Afghan school girls were targeted in a weekend attack that killed 80. Pres. Joe Biden’s withdrawal means there will be a lot more of this in the future.

We’re taking his bloated budget and right-sizing it to fit our Wisconsin values.

Johnson’s betrayal extends to Wisconsin voters on issue after issue. He neither represents the entire state nor acts for the common good.

$1.6 billion in federal dollars would fund the health care Wisconsin residents deserve.

A refusal by MPS and the teachers union to resume in-person classes is a boon to other schools.

Camus wasn’t the first to notice these powerful forces, and today’s pandemic has played out much like previous ones.

Critical race theory critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers.

Shared revenue to local governments has declined for 20 years.

Wisconsin congressman took a stand against Republican lies and then turned chicken.

A new report shows Gov. Tony Evers’ incompetent Department of Workforce Development has failed on two critical fronts: Getting unemployment checks to eligible claimants and protecting the state’s Unemployment Insurance system from fraud and waste.

The evidence suggests it did.

We must move towards a world where these types of catastrophe’s are less likely because we have learned that interdependence makes us all valued, safer, and secure to the challenges that will inevitably face us in the future.

The Wyoming Republican is a rigidly right-wing warmonger whose crude attacks on people of color, immigrants, Muslims and progressives carry the same venom as those of the most extreme members of her caucus — and of the 45th president, whose election in 2016 and reelection in 2020 she enthusiastically supported.

In the state of Wisconsin our budget shows the people of the state what our leaders value—and with the latest actions by the Republican-led Joint Finance Committee, I’d venture to say they don’t value the people of this state very much.

The silence of Wisconsin Republicans prior to Wednesday’s vote is especially notable given Gallagher’s previous statements of support for Cheney.

Those responsible for the insurrection shouldn’t be allowed to fade into the dustbin of history, as though nothing at all had happened.

In the aftermath of the pandemic, the arguments of the anti-school choice crowd ring increasingly hollow.

Nelson has written “One Day Stronger,” recounting the successful effort to save one of those threatened mills along the Fox.

The city of Milwaukee allowed liberal, third-party groups funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to set the rules and help administer November’s presidential election, according to a new complaint filed Monday on behalf of five Milwaukee residents by the Amistad Project, an election integrity watchdog.

Vaccines are working, and we need every Wisconsinite to rally to get their shots and push this over the goal line.

Afghan school girls were targeted in a weekend attack that killed 80. Pres. Joe Biden’s withdrawal means there will be a lot more of this in the future.

We’re taking his bloated budget and right-sizing it to fit our Wisconsin values.

Johnson’s betrayal extends to Wisconsin voters on issue after issue. He neither represents the entire state nor acts for the common good.

$1.6 billion in federal dollars would fund the health care Wisconsin residents deserve.

A refusal by MPS and the teachers union to resume in-person classes is a boon to other schools.

Camus wasn’t the first to notice these powerful forces, and today’s pandemic has played out much like previous ones.

Critical race theory critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers.

Shared revenue to local governments has declined for 20 years.