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Too many of our politicians and governmental leaders look the other way, enabling wealth to beget more wealth while average and low-income Americans pay the price.
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Too many of our politicians and governmental leaders look the other way, enabling wealth to beget more wealth while average and low-income Americans pay the price.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was appointed interim president of the UW System after the only finalist to replace the retiring Ray Cross pulled out of the process.

While we welcome a visit by the President to see the hard work that has been going into Wisconsin shipbuilding for decades, we also look for him to finish the job and reward Wisconsin workers by making sure Made in Wisconsin ships are powered by engines built in Wisconsin.

What can we expect from Tommy Thompson as the interim president of the University of Wisconsin System?

Measure creates universal recognition, waives fees for low-income workers, expands opportunities for ex-offenders.

Dear America, I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.

This week’s column will be covering a few different topics, so we’re calling it another “Discombobulated Edition” of The Recombobulation Area.

The governor and many of his friends in pandering liberal politics have more than tolerated the turmoil; they’ve embraced it.

Trump’s plan to disenfranchise voters works only when those who fear his bullying allow him to succeed.

Innovations in voting could help change that.

America is in the throes of a pandemic that both its leaders and media are all but ignoring: Out-of-control violence in the streets.

Once again, so many of us are grasping for answers — and if we listen, many of them are there. Once again, the best thing we can do is try to keep each other safe. And once again, the mental gymnastics are on display.

Do more. Say more. Keep the pressure on.

Wisconsin’s state motto may be “Forward,” but leftist protesters in Madison are more interested in destruction than progress.

True change will come only with a reallocation of resources to completely rewire the deep structures of oppression from the inside out.

Was that really Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald —who along with his soulmate, the blustering Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, has been a master of legislative deceit and intrigue for the past decade — calling out Gov. Tony Evers for secretly tape recording a phone call with them?

At a hastily called special meeting, the Racine City Council voted (9-5) to give an unelected health bureaucrat the power to close businesses and lockdown the city at will in response to COVID-19.

Much to my surprise, the UW Board of Regents, still controlled by Scott Walker appointees, did a smart thing. They chose former Gov. Tommy Thompson, 78, to be interim system president for at least the next year.

As he seeks Wisconsin’s support in the 2020 election, President Trump must carefully consider the negative effects his trade war and its tariffs have had on our state.

Party of slavery, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan and segregation has a short memory.

Too many of our politicians and governmental leaders look the other way, enabling wealth to beget more wealth while average and low-income Americans pay the price.
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was appointed interim president of the UW System after the only finalist to replace the retiring Ray Cross pulled out of the process.

While we welcome a visit by the President to see the hard work that has been going into Wisconsin shipbuilding for decades, we also look for him to finish the job and reward Wisconsin workers by making sure Made in Wisconsin ships are powered by engines built in Wisconsin.

What can we expect from Tommy Thompson as the interim president of the University of Wisconsin System?

Measure creates universal recognition, waives fees for low-income workers, expands opportunities for ex-offenders.

Dear America, I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.

This week’s column will be covering a few different topics, so we’re calling it another “Discombobulated Edition” of The Recombobulation Area.

The governor and many of his friends in pandering liberal politics have more than tolerated the turmoil; they’ve embraced it.

Trump’s plan to disenfranchise voters works only when those who fear his bullying allow him to succeed.

Innovations in voting could help change that.

America is in the throes of a pandemic that both its leaders and media are all but ignoring: Out-of-control violence in the streets.

Once again, so many of us are grasping for answers — and if we listen, many of them are there. Once again, the best thing we can do is try to keep each other safe. And once again, the mental gymnastics are on display.

Do more. Say more. Keep the pressure on.

Wisconsin’s state motto may be “Forward,” but leftist protesters in Madison are more interested in destruction than progress.

True change will come only with a reallocation of resources to completely rewire the deep structures of oppression from the inside out.

Was that really Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald —who along with his soulmate, the blustering Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, has been a master of legislative deceit and intrigue for the past decade — calling out Gov. Tony Evers for secretly tape recording a phone call with them?

At a hastily called special meeting, the Racine City Council voted (9-5) to give an unelected health bureaucrat the power to close businesses and lockdown the city at will in response to COVID-19.

Much to my surprise, the UW Board of Regents, still controlled by Scott Walker appointees, did a smart thing. They chose former Gov. Tommy Thompson, 78, to be interim system president for at least the next year.

As he seeks Wisconsin’s support in the 2020 election, President Trump must carefully consider the negative effects his trade war and its tariffs have had on our state.

Party of slavery, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan and segregation has a short memory.