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A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
Lessons from Great Recession can inform strategic choices for allocating American Rescue Plan dollars.
Republicans want to end the supplemental $300 per week unemployment benefits. Democrats say it’s not what’s keeping workers from going back to a job. I think they’re both wrong.
After two years as the Cap Times’ opinion editor, I’m returning to political reporting — and I couldn’t be more thrilled to make the move.
First rejected by Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin legislative Republicans continue to hold fast against taking more federal money to expand Medicaid eligibility.
If we are going to continue to rely on employers to provide Americans with access to health care, then it is our responsibility to implement programs, like BadgerCare, that extend healthcare access to those people who work jobs that, for whatever reason, do not provide them with insurance, including the self-employed.
The CDC has landed on the side of common sense — not insisting on 100% protection from this strange pandemic that has frozen the US for over a year.
If you are relying on WILL and the rest of the school choice lobby’s presentation of the facts to make decisions about the future of our state, hold on to your wallet.
While the administration looks to “refocus the lens on equity and inclusion,” the governor has left Wisconsin’s most vulnerable people out of his political vision.
NRCC creates fake Trump fundraising letter filled with misleading information.
The president’s own commitments in his first 100 days show he is serious about bringing us together to tackle the biggest issues facing our country and addressing environment justice.
Two weeks ago, we introduced a bill for co-sponsorship which would require non-judicial, state elected officials to be trained and work as election officials.
How did we get here, to a point in which obvious malapportionment provides outsize advantages for small populations and remote geographic areas?
For the past few weeks, Israel has intensified a provocative campaign of oppression and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, focused largely but not exclusively on occupied East Jerusalem.
Why legislating American patriotism is a slippery slope.
A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation Vaccine Monitor found that many parents are showing reluctance to vaccinate their adolescent children.
When the federal government said Wisconsin would get $700 million less in ARPA aid than expected, Governor Evers called the change “problematic.” Evers failed to mention the enormous amount of COVID-19 aid Wisconsin has already received and how well our state savings and economy have recovered.
In what is becoming a theme this spring at public schools across the state, the Poynette School Board warned residents who refused to wear masks at Tuesday’s meeting that they would be forcibly removed by a local police officer.
To protect fair and impartial justice, we must work to remove dark money from judicial elections and, as a backstop, also insulate our courts from the corrosive effects of dark money already spent.
The proxy voting system is clearly being abused by congressional representatives who are lying about their ability to physically attend House proceedings.
A chorus of voices from state businesses say they can’t find enough workers to fill open jobs, a trend that might expand as Wisconsin nears the Memorial Day weekend and the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
Lessons from Great Recession can inform strategic choices for allocating American Rescue Plan dollars.
Republicans want to end the supplemental $300 per week unemployment benefits. Democrats say it’s not what’s keeping workers from going back to a job. I think they’re both wrong.
After two years as the Cap Times’ opinion editor, I’m returning to political reporting — and I couldn’t be more thrilled to make the move.
First rejected by Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin legislative Republicans continue to hold fast against taking more federal money to expand Medicaid eligibility.
If we are going to continue to rely on employers to provide Americans with access to health care, then it is our responsibility to implement programs, like BadgerCare, that extend healthcare access to those people who work jobs that, for whatever reason, do not provide them with insurance, including the self-employed.
The CDC has landed on the side of common sense — not insisting on 100% protection from this strange pandemic that has frozen the US for over a year.
If you are relying on WILL and the rest of the school choice lobby’s presentation of the facts to make decisions about the future of our state, hold on to your wallet.
While the administration looks to “refocus the lens on equity and inclusion,” the governor has left Wisconsin’s most vulnerable people out of his political vision.
NRCC creates fake Trump fundraising letter filled with misleading information.
The president’s own commitments in his first 100 days show he is serious about bringing us together to tackle the biggest issues facing our country and addressing environment justice.
Two weeks ago, we introduced a bill for co-sponsorship which would require non-judicial, state elected officials to be trained and work as election officials.
How did we get here, to a point in which obvious malapportionment provides outsize advantages for small populations and remote geographic areas?
For the past few weeks, Israel has intensified a provocative campaign of oppression and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, focused largely but not exclusively on occupied East Jerusalem.
Why legislating American patriotism is a slippery slope.
A recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation Vaccine Monitor found that many parents are showing reluctance to vaccinate their adolescent children.
When the federal government said Wisconsin would get $700 million less in ARPA aid than expected, Governor Evers called the change “problematic.” Evers failed to mention the enormous amount of COVID-19 aid Wisconsin has already received and how well our state savings and economy have recovered.
In what is becoming a theme this spring at public schools across the state, the Poynette School Board warned residents who refused to wear masks at Tuesday’s meeting that they would be forcibly removed by a local police officer.
To protect fair and impartial justice, we must work to remove dark money from judicial elections and, as a backstop, also insulate our courts from the corrosive effects of dark money already spent.
The proxy voting system is clearly being abused by congressional representatives who are lying about their ability to physically attend House proceedings.
