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It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat in our elections, and S.B. 204 moves Wisconsin closer to this goal by establishing a fair, transparent and more secure process for absentee voting that people can trust.
Over 500 colleges and universities will require students to be vaccinated before showing up on campus this fall. But not the University of Wisconsin. That has to change.
Barnes hasn’t decided whether to run for another term as lieutenant governor or to enter the Senate race. But his speech was the most potent of the Democratic state convention.
As evidence grows that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, says we’ve learned two things: the mainstream media was again expertly performed its role as “useful idiots” and we are at the cusp of a renewed Cold War with China.
The DNR should require an Environmental Impact Statement for a huge industrial hog operation proposed for Crawford County in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin.
Vaccination has proven to be transformative and is the key to continuing this progress and to keeping you and your family safe.
Wisconsin GOP leaders have a long history of rejecting federal funding.
Now they’re putting the state in danger of losing another $1.5 billion in education aid because they refuse to make a minimum increase in state funding for Wisconsin schools.
Evers has an awful record as governor and can be defeated – if the Republicans don’t insist on defeating themselves.
There are several reasons why the governor’s threat to veto the entire budget is more real this year.
Police and sheriff departments across the country have recognized that their officers need to be better equipped and have sought specialized training to deal with an array of crisis issues.
Perhaps nowhere has Kaul’s inability to work across the aisle been more glaring than on the stalled efforts to pass beneficial legislation on rape kits.
Only 24% of Blacks, 32% of Latinx in state have had at least one dose.
The same lockdown liberals who have done the bidding of teachers unions in demanding Wisconsin schools stay closed during the pandemic are pushing a scheme to make taxpayers statewide pay the full freight for summer school.
Measure would re-imprison anyone who commits a crime while on extended supervision, parole, or probation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at Dem Party candidates seeking to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson in 2022, should he run for reelection.
My takeaway lessons from John Powless include cherishing friends, enjoying the ride, embracing competition, and looking for the good in people. I hope you have a friend or two who have that kind of impact on you.
It’s time for equity in women’s sports.
A freeze cannot go on forever, especially with costs for materials, labor, and energy headed upwards and fears of broader inflation on the horizon driven by Washington spending. However, a good amount of that spending is going to backstop losses by colleges and universities. That leads us to wonder whether now is the right time to unfreeze tuition.
Emotion and politics—not science and common sense—were clearly driving the nationwide push for mandatory mask-wearing, and even Fauci succumbed to it. Now, though, science is starting to prove that masks did nothing more than make the public feel a little better.
It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat in our elections, and S.B. 204 moves Wisconsin closer to this goal by establishing a fair, transparent and more secure process for absentee voting that people can trust.
Over 500 colleges and universities will require students to be vaccinated before showing up on campus this fall. But not the University of Wisconsin. That has to change.
Barnes hasn’t decided whether to run for another term as lieutenant governor or to enter the Senate race. But his speech was the most potent of the Democratic state convention.
As evidence grows that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, says we’ve learned two things: the mainstream media was again expertly performed its role as “useful idiots” and we are at the cusp of a renewed Cold War with China.
The DNR should require an Environmental Impact Statement for a huge industrial hog operation proposed for Crawford County in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin.
Vaccination has proven to be transformative and is the key to continuing this progress and to keeping you and your family safe.
Wisconsin GOP leaders have a long history of rejecting federal funding.
Now they’re putting the state in danger of losing another $1.5 billion in education aid because they refuse to make a minimum increase in state funding for Wisconsin schools.
Evers has an awful record as governor and can be defeated – if the Republicans don’t insist on defeating themselves.
There are several reasons why the governor’s threat to veto the entire budget is more real this year.
Police and sheriff departments across the country have recognized that their officers need to be better equipped and have sought specialized training to deal with an array of crisis issues.
Perhaps nowhere has Kaul’s inability to work across the aisle been more glaring than on the stalled efforts to pass beneficial legislation on rape kits.
Only 24% of Blacks, 32% of Latinx in state have had at least one dose.
The same lockdown liberals who have done the bidding of teachers unions in demanding Wisconsin schools stay closed during the pandemic are pushing a scheme to make taxpayers statewide pay the full freight for summer school.
Measure would re-imprison anyone who commits a crime while on extended supervision, parole, or probation.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take an early look at Dem Party candidates seeking to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson in 2022, should he run for reelection.
My takeaway lessons from John Powless include cherishing friends, enjoying the ride, embracing competition, and looking for the good in people. I hope you have a friend or two who have that kind of impact on you.
It’s time for equity in women’s sports.
A freeze cannot go on forever, especially with costs for materials, labor, and energy headed upwards and fears of broader inflation on the horizon driven by Washington spending. However, a good amount of that spending is going to backstop losses by colleges and universities. That leads us to wonder whether now is the right time to unfreeze tuition.
Emotion and politics—not science and common sense—were clearly driving the nationwide push for mandatory mask-wearing, and even Fauci succumbed to it. Now, though, science is starting to prove that masks did nothing more than make the public feel a little better.
