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The proposed state budget for schools passed by the Legislature’s budget committee is so stingy, the federal government is seriously considering withdrawing $1.5 billion from our state because we don’t make an adequate investment in our own kids.
By adopting strong recusal rules, reinstituting public financing of elections, limiting campaign spending and enhancing disclosure we can reclaim our courts at all levels.
A chance to get it right on the front end.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ends this practice and will finally start to demilitarize our police departments.
In 1920, African-Americans owned some 14% of the farms in the United States. Today, thanks to a century of racial discrimination, from land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and governmental farm services refusing to consider them for loans or other financial assistance, that number has dropped to just 1.4%.
The bill is simple. Local governments cannot accept private money to administer elections. If funds are offered, they must go to the Wisconsin Elections Commission who will distribute the funds across the state on a per-capita basis.
Claiming election irregularities, undermining election officials, hiring a GOP expert in smears.
Wisconsin’s Class of 2021 have used their voices to push for positive changes in their communities. They are a group who has demonstrated a unique ability to adapt and have gained many lifelong skills along the way.
Demand that Mike Pence’s book not be published the latest of many such examples.
Wisconsin’s public schools are as well-funded as they ever have been, and any suggestion to the contrary is simply dishonest.
Wisconsin cannot afford to continue the course its criminal justice system is on.
Nearly 125 years after the smallpox wars in Milwaukee and elsewhere, we’re suffering through another epidemic of willful myopia.
Texas is experiencing what Wisconsin did a decade ago, when Democrat senators fled the Badger State in a lame and cowardly attempt to stall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker’s bold public sector collective-bargaining reforms known as Act 10.
I thought it was time to hear from someone who has fought so hard to stay in Wisconsin’s middle class over almost two years that he doesn’t have time to follow the Capitol machinations of Republicans and Democrats.
Memorial Day for me has always been associated with the memory of Phineas Cadwell, one of the 40 Revolutionary War veterans buried in the cemeteries of small towns across Wisconsin.
Vos falsely disparages Medicaid expansion as “massive welfare expansion.”
Led by Robin Vos, Republicans repeatedly back policies causing poverty, sickness and death.
Education has always been – and continues to be – the single largest investment in our state budget. Year after year, we have invested in our kids, our teachers and our schools. This year is no different.
On May 13, 1985 one of the most brutal acts of police brutality in American history occurred and you’ve probably never heard of it. A police helicopter dropped a bomb onto the roof of the MOVE home during an armed standoff. The fire it started destroyed over 60 homes in West Philadelphia and killed six adults and five child members of MOVE.
Policymakers in Washington must ensure that the recently passed No Surprises Act is implemented to protect access to lifesaving care, not insurance company profits.
The proposed state budget for schools passed by the Legislature’s budget committee is so stingy, the federal government is seriously considering withdrawing $1.5 billion from our state because we don’t make an adequate investment in our own kids.
By adopting strong recusal rules, reinstituting public financing of elections, limiting campaign spending and enhancing disclosure we can reclaim our courts at all levels.
A chance to get it right on the front end.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act ends this practice and will finally start to demilitarize our police departments.
In 1920, African-Americans owned some 14% of the farms in the United States. Today, thanks to a century of racial discrimination, from land theft in the Jim Crow South to banks and governmental farm services refusing to consider them for loans or other financial assistance, that number has dropped to just 1.4%.
The bill is simple. Local governments cannot accept private money to administer elections. If funds are offered, they must go to the Wisconsin Elections Commission who will distribute the funds across the state on a per-capita basis.
Claiming election irregularities, undermining election officials, hiring a GOP expert in smears.
Wisconsin’s Class of 2021 have used their voices to push for positive changes in their communities. They are a group who has demonstrated a unique ability to adapt and have gained many lifelong skills along the way.
Demand that Mike Pence’s book not be published the latest of many such examples.
Wisconsin’s public schools are as well-funded as they ever have been, and any suggestion to the contrary is simply dishonest.
Wisconsin cannot afford to continue the course its criminal justice system is on.
Nearly 125 years after the smallpox wars in Milwaukee and elsewhere, we’re suffering through another epidemic of willful myopia.
Texas is experiencing what Wisconsin did a decade ago, when Democrat senators fled the Badger State in a lame and cowardly attempt to stall a vote on then-Gov. Scott Walker’s bold public sector collective-bargaining reforms known as Act 10.
I thought it was time to hear from someone who has fought so hard to stay in Wisconsin’s middle class over almost two years that he doesn’t have time to follow the Capitol machinations of Republicans and Democrats.
Memorial Day for me has always been associated with the memory of Phineas Cadwell, one of the 40 Revolutionary War veterans buried in the cemeteries of small towns across Wisconsin.
Vos falsely disparages Medicaid expansion as “massive welfare expansion.”
Led by Robin Vos, Republicans repeatedly back policies causing poverty, sickness and death.
Education has always been – and continues to be – the single largest investment in our state budget. Year after year, we have invested in our kids, our teachers and our schools. This year is no different.
On May 13, 1985 one of the most brutal acts of police brutality in American history occurred and you’ve probably never heard of it. A police helicopter dropped a bomb onto the roof of the MOVE home during an armed standoff. The fire it started destroyed over 60 homes in West Philadelphia and killed six adults and five child members of MOVE.
Policymakers in Washington must ensure that the recently passed No Surprises Act is implemented to protect access to lifesaving care, not insurance company profits.
