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With a tight labor market, worker exhaustion and record corporate profits, unionized workers are using collective muscle to exert pressure on employers to pay and treat workers better.
Late last month a group of Republican legislators brought in the off-the-wall profane rocker Ted Nugent and the national hunting lobby, Hunter Nation, to help them promote a number of hunting and firearms bills, among them a provision to create a sandhill crane hunting season in the state.
The WCD has never been shy about spending taxpayer money on fanciful projects despite the slim prospects for success. After all, it’s not their money. For this expansion, the WCD borrowed $420 million.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the latest maps in Wisconsin’s ongoing redistricting process. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
My takeaway from listening to a podcast about a focus group was that Biden and fellow Democrats have thus far failed to convey an impression of sensible, understandable progress to reassure those who are not immersed in politics.
Because they can get away with it.
The former president, a legitimate nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time, was aced by joint winners: a Filipino woman and a Russian dissident, both heads of news organizations.
Like the extreme climate change agenda pushed by Biden and congressional Democrats, Evers’ carbon neutral plan has hit energy consumption reality head on.
When the commission released its final maps this week it became apparent that the process of drawing them was not done in the open and was instead done by an unlawful “walking quorum” of members gathered for the express purpose of sidestepping the open records law.
Woke is killing the Democrats’ chances of staving off a now quasi-fascist movement that is called the Republican Party.
Almost a century ago, Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists — socialist politicians who fought for improved infrastructure and city services in Milwaukee from the early 20th century to 1960 — worked to accomplish their own version of police defunding.
We need leaders in Washington who are committed to improving our nation’s health care system so more Americans can access the care they need. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is one of them.
Tuesday’s results weren’t the result of dissatisfaction with the state of education; they were a direct referendum on the disaster that has been Joe Biden’s presidency and the creeping radicalism that has defined it.
Democrats in Washington have bungled the past several months. And their failure to govern boldly—and effectively—has cost them dearly.
The campaign to oust four members of the Mequon-Thiensville School Board went down in defeat at the polls Tuesday, but organizers of the nationally watched grassroots effort say they will fight on for their children.
The Racine County sheriff’s recommendation of criminal charges against five Elections Commission officials are little more than a baseless, hyper-partisan attack on legal and approved election procedures made by a highly partisan elected official.
We can’t expect our kids to develop the habits of thoughtful debate or the civil give-and-take required of a functional democracy if adults can’t model those traits. Their future, and ours, depends on whether we can get our act together.
The climate crisis threatens to upend our Wisconsin way of life, whether through changes to our growing seasons, eroding coastlines or the disparate long-term health and economic effects of extreme weather.
Kleefisch says so. The only two claims of this, both in other states, involved Republicans.
Natural Resources Board chair resists further public records requests. What is he hiding?
With a tight labor market, worker exhaustion and record corporate profits, unionized workers are using collective muscle to exert pressure on employers to pay and treat workers better.
Late last month a group of Republican legislators brought in the off-the-wall profane rocker Ted Nugent and the national hunting lobby, Hunter Nation, to help them promote a number of hunting and firearms bills, among them a provision to create a sandhill crane hunting season in the state.
The WCD has never been shy about spending taxpayer money on fanciful projects despite the slim prospects for success. After all, it’s not their money. For this expansion, the WCD borrowed $420 million.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review the latest maps in Wisconsin’s ongoing redistricting process. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
My takeaway from listening to a podcast about a focus group was that Biden and fellow Democrats have thus far failed to convey an impression of sensible, understandable progress to reassure those who are not immersed in politics.
Because they can get away with it.
The former president, a legitimate nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second time, was aced by joint winners: a Filipino woman and a Russian dissident, both heads of news organizations.
Like the extreme climate change agenda pushed by Biden and congressional Democrats, Evers’ carbon neutral plan has hit energy consumption reality head on.
When the commission released its final maps this week it became apparent that the process of drawing them was not done in the open and was instead done by an unlawful “walking quorum” of members gathered for the express purpose of sidestepping the open records law.
Woke is killing the Democrats’ chances of staving off a now quasi-fascist movement that is called the Republican Party.
Almost a century ago, Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists — socialist politicians who fought for improved infrastructure and city services in Milwaukee from the early 20th century to 1960 — worked to accomplish their own version of police defunding.
We need leaders in Washington who are committed to improving our nation’s health care system so more Americans can access the care they need. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is one of them.
Tuesday’s results weren’t the result of dissatisfaction with the state of education; they were a direct referendum on the disaster that has been Joe Biden’s presidency and the creeping radicalism that has defined it.
Democrats in Washington have bungled the past several months. And their failure to govern boldly—and effectively—has cost them dearly.
The campaign to oust four members of the Mequon-Thiensville School Board went down in defeat at the polls Tuesday, but organizers of the nationally watched grassroots effort say they will fight on for their children.
The Racine County sheriff’s recommendation of criminal charges against five Elections Commission officials are little more than a baseless, hyper-partisan attack on legal and approved election procedures made by a highly partisan elected official.
We can’t expect our kids to develop the habits of thoughtful debate or the civil give-and-take required of a functional democracy if adults can’t model those traits. Their future, and ours, depends on whether we can get our act together.
The climate crisis threatens to upend our Wisconsin way of life, whether through changes to our growing seasons, eroding coastlines or the disparate long-term health and economic effects of extreme weather.
Kleefisch says so. The only two claims of this, both in other states, involved Republicans.
Natural Resources Board chair resists further public records requests. What is he hiding?