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Now is the best of times for people in Wisconsin who are looking for good-paying manufacturing jobs.

They twisted what I said about Jan. 6 because they want Americans to forget last summer’s violence and destruction.

Why all the conspiracy theories? It’s Ron Johnson’s calculated reelection strategy.

State bill seeks to punish those that defund police.

Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector.

It’s long past time to erect a Vel Phillips statue on the Square. She should be but the first.

For a decade or more Democrats have been counting on a demographic tsunami to sweep them to a long-term majority. It might just sweep them out to sea instead.

A lot of people got the wind knocked out of their sails when Tom Lyon died last week.

The answer for real recovery is not more big government. Instead, we need real reform. And we need the courage to fight for it.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides substantial funding to end the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic downturn. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy

The governor signed Act 4 into law, which creates a civil liability exemption for COVID-19 related claims. This is tremendous news for every school, church, employer, organization and entity in our communities.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Over the past several decades, the open government movement has become a powerful force in Wisconsin. Every public official, both right

While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.

We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.

A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.

Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.

Company gave millions to group sponsoring Capitol insurrection, opposed pandemic measures, endangered employees’ health.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the post-Trump future for Wisconsin politics and the GOP.

The U.S. Capitol insurrection gave pause to some Republican contributors, but University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Eleanor Powell says she doesn’t expect that hesitancy to last. And that might not even be the worst of it.

Buried within the House of Representatives’ $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill—and the Senate’s Amendments to it — is a provision that gives federal workers $1,400 a week in paid leave until September 30 if they have a son or daughter in a school that still teaches virtually.

Now is the best of times for people in Wisconsin who are looking for good-paying manufacturing jobs.

They twisted what I said about Jan. 6 because they want Americans to forget last summer’s violence and destruction.

Why all the conspiracy theories? It’s Ron Johnson’s calculated reelection strategy.

State bill seeks to punish those that defund police.

Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector.

It’s long past time to erect a Vel Phillips statue on the Square. She should be but the first.

For a decade or more Democrats have been counting on a demographic tsunami to sweep them to a long-term majority. It might just sweep them out to sea instead.

A lot of people got the wind knocked out of their sails when Tom Lyon died last week.

The answer for real recovery is not more big government. Instead, we need real reform. And we need the courage to fight for it.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The American Rescue Plan (ARP) provides substantial funding to end the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant economic downturn. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy

The governor signed Act 4 into law, which creates a civil liability exemption for COVID-19 related claims. This is tremendous news for every school, church, employer, organization and entity in our communities.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Over the past several decades, the open government movement has become a powerful force in Wisconsin. Every public official, both right

While the Trump administration’s plan to make sweeping changes to the post office was seen as a cynical attempt to make it more difficult for states to allow voting by mail, the changes that slowed down delivery caused major problems for rural America.

We propose a modern-day Economic Justice Bill of Rights for all Wisconsinites.

A new report found that Center for Tech and Civic Life grants increased turnout in Democratic areas with no statistically significant impact on Republican areas.

Cancel culture — intolerance for ideas — is a cancer eating at the core of society and democracy. Barack Obama is a key ally in the fight against it. Andrew Cuomo and CPAC, well, not so much.

Company gave millions to group sponsoring Capitol insurrection, opposed pandemic measures, endangered employees’ health.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider the post-Trump future for Wisconsin politics and the GOP.

The U.S. Capitol insurrection gave pause to some Republican contributors, but University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Eleanor Powell says she doesn’t expect that hesitancy to last. And that might not even be the worst of it.

Buried within the House of Representatives’ $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill—and the Senate’s Amendments to it — is a provision that gives federal workers $1,400 a week in paid leave until September 30 if they have a son or daughter in a school that still teaches virtually.