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Outgoing state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law.
Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is doing her best to get Congress to do something to help struggling, mostly locally-owned restaurants that are faced with extinction during this pandemic.
I recently received my new committee assignments for the upcoming legislative session and they all play to my strengths.
Republican legislators would take power from schools, local governments and governor.
In a time of increased partisan rancor, I hope that reauthorizing the Stewardship Fund and restoring its full funding might be something both parties can work together to accomplish.
The losing minority in Trump election case vent their anger and reveal their prejudices.
In his first term on the Supreme Court, Justice Hagedorn has demonstrated the sort of judicial independence we hope all judges and justices would display.
A new study shows school districts that began the year with virtual education lost more students than districts that began the year with in-person education.
Yes, Is there anything you can do? Yes.
The bi-partisan sport of finger-pointing and name calling has been going on for years, but the Democrats sunk to a new low in the vilification of Donald Trump.
I believe in the science behind the vaccine’s development and trust that the benefits of getting inoculated far outweigh the risks of not.
There is no war on Christmas, but these legislators are waging a war on reason and the rule of law. And it’s a war Wisconsin cannot afford to lose.
Thompson freed up $5 million from the Blue Cross Endowment to the University of Wisconsin Madison for nursing education.
The red state of Florida, the place the retired wealthy go to escape paying state income taxes, actually passed a referendum to raise the state’s $8.56 an hour minimum wage in increments until it hits $15 by 2026.
School districts need encouragement to do what is right for our kids. That’s why I am calling on our schools to make the right decision for kids and return to in-person classes.
As out of-work Wisconsinites found themselves trapped in an Unemployment Insurance system nightmare, Gov. Tony Evers appears to have met with his Workforce Development chief just one time between March 1 and Sept. 18 — and that was to fire him.
The past four years have been the darkest in the history of the Republican Party. Now in the last days of Donald Trump, many in the party have laid waste to any vestiges of respect for the nation they claim to represent.
As Wisconsinites, we should condemn these claims without evidence of voter fraud and challenge those state officials who still support them.
It’s your right to “take” or not — or not yet — but decide responsibly.
State Rep. John Nygren and I don’t always see eye-to-eye, but he achieved a lot for our shared hometown of Marinette in northeast Wisconsin.
Outgoing state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law.
Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is doing her best to get Congress to do something to help struggling, mostly locally-owned restaurants that are faced with extinction during this pandemic.
I recently received my new committee assignments for the upcoming legislative session and they all play to my strengths.
Republican legislators would take power from schools, local governments and governor.
In a time of increased partisan rancor, I hope that reauthorizing the Stewardship Fund and restoring its full funding might be something both parties can work together to accomplish.
The losing minority in Trump election case vent their anger and reveal their prejudices.
In his first term on the Supreme Court, Justice Hagedorn has demonstrated the sort of judicial independence we hope all judges and justices would display.
A new study shows school districts that began the year with virtual education lost more students than districts that began the year with in-person education.
Yes, Is there anything you can do? Yes.
The bi-partisan sport of finger-pointing and name calling has been going on for years, but the Democrats sunk to a new low in the vilification of Donald Trump.
I believe in the science behind the vaccine’s development and trust that the benefits of getting inoculated far outweigh the risks of not.
There is no war on Christmas, but these legislators are waging a war on reason and the rule of law. And it’s a war Wisconsin cannot afford to lose.
Thompson freed up $5 million from the Blue Cross Endowment to the University of Wisconsin Madison for nursing education.
The red state of Florida, the place the retired wealthy go to escape paying state income taxes, actually passed a referendum to raise the state’s $8.56 an hour minimum wage in increments until it hits $15 by 2026.
School districts need encouragement to do what is right for our kids. That’s why I am calling on our schools to make the right decision for kids and return to in-person classes.
As out of-work Wisconsinites found themselves trapped in an Unemployment Insurance system nightmare, Gov. Tony Evers appears to have met with his Workforce Development chief just one time between March 1 and Sept. 18 — and that was to fire him.
The past four years have been the darkest in the history of the Republican Party. Now in the last days of Donald Trump, many in the party have laid waste to any vestiges of respect for the nation they claim to represent.
As Wisconsinites, we should condemn these claims without evidence of voter fraud and challenge those state officials who still support them.
It’s your right to “take” or not — or not yet — but decide responsibly.
State Rep. John Nygren and I don’t always see eye-to-eye, but he achieved a lot for our shared hometown of Marinette in northeast Wisconsin.