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We’re all coming back eventually, to one degree or another. Try to separate real risks from risks so small as to not fret over. It will make your “Groundhog Day” re-emergence go better.
Protection of the environment has long been a popular cause with Wisconsin voters regardless of party.
Bills to “protect” girls from transgender competition in Wisconsin school sports help no one, but they do send a powerful message of intolerance.
Despite scientific evidence showing students are safe in a classroom, liberals sell out to teachers’ unions.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin supports federal COVID-19 relief bill while U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson obstructs.
There’s a growing theory that playing the anthem before every sporting event actually diminishes its meaning.
For the People Act seeks to assure that all people have an equal right to vote.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their views on GOP plans to audit the Wisconsin Elections Commission about voting practices in the 2020 election.
Ominous signals around race, the importance of competence, and a changing media foreshadowed our current Donald Trump-driven dysfunction. Barack Obama describes several of them in his autobiography, “A Promised Land.”
Legislators pushing for this again. Why it’s a bad idea.
Why would Vos be against the ability for residents to determine what revenues their municipalities or counties should be able to raise, unless he thinks they are “not smart” enough to vote the way he believes they should?
The flurry of election changes introduced in Wisconsin are mostly mind-numbing in their picky detail, but the gist is to make it harder to vote, pure and simple.
Last week, after almost a year of delays, the Legislature took a small step in fixing our state’s outdated unemployment compensation system.
Representative Dittrich’s “Protecting Women in Sports Act” is the exact opposite of bigotry; it is a powerful affirmation of all that female athletes can achieve if they’re allowed to run a fair race.
The publication is filled with the kind of extreme environmentalism that has marked Gov. Tony Evers’ administration.
Problems in Texas, other states, show how extreme weather events can shut down or overwhelm hospitals.
It’s time for congressional Republicans to listen.
Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
We’re all coming back eventually, to one degree or another. Try to separate real risks from risks so small as to not fret over. It will make your “Groundhog Day” re-emergence go better.
Protection of the environment has long been a popular cause with Wisconsin voters regardless of party.
Bills to “protect” girls from transgender competition in Wisconsin school sports help no one, but they do send a powerful message of intolerance.
Despite scientific evidence showing students are safe in a classroom, liberals sell out to teachers’ unions.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin supports federal COVID-19 relief bill while U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson obstructs.
There’s a growing theory that playing the anthem before every sporting event actually diminishes its meaning.
For the People Act seeks to assure that all people have an equal right to vote.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer their views on GOP plans to audit the Wisconsin Elections Commission about voting practices in the 2020 election.
Ominous signals around race, the importance of competence, and a changing media foreshadowed our current Donald Trump-driven dysfunction. Barack Obama describes several of them in his autobiography, “A Promised Land.”
Legislators pushing for this again. Why it’s a bad idea.
Why would Vos be against the ability for residents to determine what revenues their municipalities or counties should be able to raise, unless he thinks they are “not smart” enough to vote the way he believes they should?
The flurry of election changes introduced in Wisconsin are mostly mind-numbing in their picky detail, but the gist is to make it harder to vote, pure and simple.
Last week, after almost a year of delays, the Legislature took a small step in fixing our state’s outdated unemployment compensation system.
Representative Dittrich’s “Protecting Women in Sports Act” is the exact opposite of bigotry; it is a powerful affirmation of all that female athletes can achieve if they’re allowed to run a fair race.
The publication is filled with the kind of extreme environmentalism that has marked Gov. Tony Evers’ administration.
Problems in Texas, other states, show how extreme weather events can shut down or overwhelm hospitals.
It’s time for congressional Republicans to listen.
Republican Sen. Dale Kooyenga and progressive Democratic Rep. Daniel Riemer deserve credit for advancing an innovative proposal for ranked-choice voting, and for opening a necessary discussion about democracy in Wisconsin. But they’re not going far enough.
