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While prisoners might be confined to the prison grounds, corrections officers, prison staff, attorneys, visitors and medical professionals enter and leave prisons on a daily basis.
Marijuana prohibition currently produces racially disparate drug arrests, costs the state millions
While state Republican candidates outperformed Trump. A problem for both parties.
Considered together, Franklin’s themes presage close, hard-fought elections with the future of Wisconsin — and as a key swing state, the nation — in the balance.
Public reaction to both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections suggests we are losing confidence in our electoral system. Whether this enervated faith is the result of flaws in our procedures, or instead a series of popular misunderstandings, it should tell us we have some work to do if we want to retain (and recapture) trust in our elections.
GOP emails on racial disparities group no real surprise.
A Senate committee wants the Wisconsin Elections Commission to do what it should have done a long time ago: Follow state election law.
With any luck, it will move the conversation forward enough to make medicinal use, decriminalization and expungement tangible ideas.
For nearly 10 months, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has blocked each and every proposed state action that could slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Political centrists in the United States are suffering a severe case of disappointment as they watch the two political parties staying in the same old partisan rut that preceded the election of Joe Biden as president.
We may be turning out smarter tech savvy graduates, more knowledgeable scientists and engineers, but have we sacrificed what is required of an American in keeping the flame of democracy burning?
Freedom, Inc. wants to totally eliminate police departments and free almost everyone from prison.
How public employees beat the odds to create a union.
Gov. Tony Evers says he’ll include legalization of recreational marijuana in his upcoming two-year budget plan. Under Evers’ plan to be formally introduced Feb. 16, the drug would be treated much like Wisconsin regulates and taxes alcohol. Wisconsin would join
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Future analysts will probably conclude Biden and the Democrats hit their zenith in Wisconsin in late 2020/early 2021. Debate will rage
More executions in Trump’s last six months than in previous 56 years of the presidency.
Because the vote in the Republican Caucus was conducted by secret ballot, we may never know how Wisconsin’s congressmen voted on this leadership question.
One of the greatest parts about the Wisconsin uprising that kicked off 10 years ago this week was the music.
While prisoners might be confined to the prison grounds, corrections officers, prison staff, attorneys, visitors and medical professionals enter and leave prisons on a daily basis.
Marijuana prohibition currently produces racially disparate drug arrests, costs the state millions
While state Republican candidates outperformed Trump. A problem for both parties.
Considered together, Franklin’s themes presage close, hard-fought elections with the future of Wisconsin — and as a key swing state, the nation — in the balance.
Public reaction to both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections suggests we are losing confidence in our electoral system. Whether this enervated faith is the result of flaws in our procedures, or instead a series of popular misunderstandings, it should tell us we have some work to do if we want to retain (and recapture) trust in our elections.
GOP emails on racial disparities group no real surprise.
A Senate committee wants the Wisconsin Elections Commission to do what it should have done a long time ago: Follow state election law.
With any luck, it will move the conversation forward enough to make medicinal use, decriminalization and expungement tangible ideas.
For nearly 10 months, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has blocked each and every proposed state action that could slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Political centrists in the United States are suffering a severe case of disappointment as they watch the two political parties staying in the same old partisan rut that preceded the election of Joe Biden as president.
We may be turning out smarter tech savvy graduates, more knowledgeable scientists and engineers, but have we sacrificed what is required of an American in keeping the flame of democracy burning?
Freedom, Inc. wants to totally eliminate police departments and free almost everyone from prison.
How public employees beat the odds to create a union.
Gov. Tony Evers says he’ll include legalization of recreational marijuana in his upcoming two-year budget plan. Under Evers’ plan to be formally introduced Feb. 16, the drug would be treated much like Wisconsin regulates and taxes alcohol. Wisconsin would join
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Future analysts will probably conclude Biden and the Democrats hit their zenith in Wisconsin in late 2020/early 2021. Debate will rage
More executions in Trump’s last six months than in previous 56 years of the presidency.
Because the vote in the Republican Caucus was conducted by secret ballot, we may never know how Wisconsin’s congressmen voted on this leadership question.
One of the greatest parts about the Wisconsin uprising that kicked off 10 years ago this week was the music.