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Newly-elected state Reps. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, and Kristina Shelton, D-Green Bay, have grabbed the baton in a relay race for progressive change.
Read an excerpt from Tom Nelson’s new book, “One Day Stronger: How one union local saved a mill and changed an industry–and what it means for American manufacturing.”
Trump’s final legal appeal of the 2020 election results is as dead as a parrot in a Monty Python sketch.
Huh? That’s a switch for Republicans. But it might actually be a good idea.
There is no reason for Wisconsin to be the last state to legalize; we simply must have the political courage to do the right thing.
The Assembly Speaker’s decision to deny local control to the state’s largest, most diverse city is going to be costly. And when will Milwaukee start standing up for itself?
The year 2020, a year where we faced a deadly pandemic, saw the city reach a grim record surpassing 1991 as the deadliest year in the city’s history with a record 193 homicides. It was devastating to lose so many Milwaukeeans to murder.
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.
Newly-elected state Reps. Francesca Hong, D-Madison, and Kristina Shelton, D-Green Bay, have grabbed the baton in a relay race for progressive change.
Read an excerpt from Tom Nelson’s new book, “One Day Stronger: How one union local saved a mill and changed an industry–and what it means for American manufacturing.”
Trump’s final legal appeal of the 2020 election results is as dead as a parrot in a Monty Python sketch.
Huh? That’s a switch for Republicans. But it might actually be a good idea.
There is no reason for Wisconsin to be the last state to legalize; we simply must have the political courage to do the right thing.
The Assembly Speaker’s decision to deny local control to the state’s largest, most diverse city is going to be costly. And when will Milwaukee start standing up for itself?
The year 2020, a year where we faced a deadly pandemic, saw the city reach a grim record surpassing 1991 as the deadliest year in the city’s history with a record 193 homicides. It was devastating to lose so many Milwaukeeans to murder.
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.
