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The data shows us that contrary to popular belief, there is little correlation between spending and student outcomes.
This past February, the state Assembly passed the CARES Act – a bill that will cut unnecessary red tape for PAs, allowing us to expand access to care. The state Senate was poised to pass the bill, too, but the public health crisis cut the legislative session short.
Report finds higher fatalities in state despite fewer accidents during pandemic; crashes often involve alcohol, speeding.
Throughout the months of the pandemic, Republican and Democratic rhetoric, Biden’s win and Trump’s preposterous recounts, protesters in Milwaukee have been marching and fighting for over 180 days with demands for equity, justice and human rights: for Black and Brown people and against police murder and corruption.
Joe Biden understands that people of any party can and do care about climate change, and some Republicans are expressing similar opinions.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department,
I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.
The imperative to protect cultural icons exists today as much as ever, and it has come closer to home.
A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.
Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.
Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.
In this episode, the Thompson Center was joined by Shannon Jankowski and Diego Zambrano to discuss the current reach of Anti-SLAPP statutes and the potential for further implementation.
It’s all about the wealth gap for workers at Colectivo and Milwaukee Art Museum.
Along with Walgreens and CVS, creating their own medical clinics to cut costs.
Our vote is sacred, and those who are in charge of the voting process are doing sacred work.
Playing nice with Americans who still support Trump simply doesn’t work. Many of them seem to regard it as a sign of weakness, not a gesture of reconciliation.
President Donald Trump may be allowing the Government Services Administration to proceed with the transition process to a Biden Administration, but one Republican die-hard in Wisconsin is clinging to a Trump election victory like a lost Japanese soldier unaware of the emperor’s surrender at the end of World War II.
You can’t court black voters and call them thieves at the same time.
Milwaukee County elections officials and their liberal allies insist there was no voter fraud in the presidential election. Witnesses to the Election Day ballot count say what they saw disputes those assertions.
Changes are coming to U.S. trade policy, but it is too early to tell if we should expect dramatic waves or subtle ripples during the next four years.
The data shows us that contrary to popular belief, there is little correlation between spending and student outcomes.
This past February, the state Assembly passed the CARES Act – a bill that will cut unnecessary red tape for PAs, allowing us to expand access to care. The state Senate was poised to pass the bill, too, but the public health crisis cut the legislative session short.
Report finds higher fatalities in state despite fewer accidents during pandemic; crashes often involve alcohol, speeding.
Throughout the months of the pandemic, Republican and Democratic rhetoric, Biden’s win and Trump’s preposterous recounts, protesters in Milwaukee have been marching and fighting for over 180 days with demands for equity, justice and human rights: for Black and Brown people and against police murder and corruption.
Joe Biden understands that people of any party can and do care about climate change, and some Republicans are expressing similar opinions.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department,
I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.
The imperative to protect cultural icons exists today as much as ever, and it has come closer to home.
A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.
Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.
Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.
In this episode, the Thompson Center was joined by Shannon Jankowski and Diego Zambrano to discuss the current reach of Anti-SLAPP statutes and the potential for further implementation.
It’s all about the wealth gap for workers at Colectivo and Milwaukee Art Museum.
Along with Walgreens and CVS, creating their own medical clinics to cut costs.
Our vote is sacred, and those who are in charge of the voting process are doing sacred work.
Playing nice with Americans who still support Trump simply doesn’t work. Many of them seem to regard it as a sign of weakness, not a gesture of reconciliation.
President Donald Trump may be allowing the Government Services Administration to proceed with the transition process to a Biden Administration, but one Republican die-hard in Wisconsin is clinging to a Trump election victory like a lost Japanese soldier unaware of the emperor’s surrender at the end of World War II.
You can’t court black voters and call them thieves at the same time.
Milwaukee County elections officials and their liberal allies insist there was no voter fraud in the presidential election. Witnesses to the Election Day ballot count say what they saw disputes those assertions.
Changes are coming to U.S. trade policy, but it is too early to tell if we should expect dramatic waves or subtle ripples during the next four years.