Visit WisPolitics-State Affairs for premium content,
keyword notifications, bill tracking and more
Submit columns for consideration to wisopinion@wispolitics.com
For years now, Republican legislators, apparently aware that they can’t win elections if more people vote, have been doing their best to make it harder, not easier.
The Wisconsin state Legislature has such a rule. It keeps legislation clean and relational to the intent of the original bill.
While there are good arguments on both sides of the debate, I would abolish the filibuster. But that’s not going to happen, so it would be better to double down on it instead.
Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, an election official for 22 years, said she had never seen anything like what she saw in Green Bay during the 2020 presidential election — and she hopes she’ll never see it again.
It is high time that all Americans, and educators especially, understand that African American history is American history. To think otherwise does a gross disservice to students and to our populace as a whole.
Batteries charged on coal power aren’t so good for the environment.
For the 15th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is presenting its Openness in Government Awards.
More than any other team in Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers organization is dependent on attendance.
Police and fire fighter unions handed power over Fire & Police Commission disciplinary hearings.
The discrimination on national origin in the financial industry is actually not a new phenomenon but it is largely unknown due to the power of the financial industry over the mainstream US media.
Our system of government only works if voters get to pick their representatives—not the other way around.
If it waits another week and a half, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will have gone two whole public health emergencies without determining whether said emergencies are actually lawful.
Up 114% since 2000. A change in who owns guns, what kind they own and why they own them.
Evers vows to veto a GOP bill that would end the Democrat’s unilateral control over spending $5.5 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Just before the November election, Congress came together behind increased funding for a program that has helped protect natural places from Devil’s Lake to the Apostle Islands and thousands of areas like them around the country.
The fact that NCAA cross country maintains separate distances for women perpetuates internalized sexism among female athletes.
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.
For years now, Republican legislators, apparently aware that they can’t win elections if more people vote, have been doing their best to make it harder, not easier.
The Wisconsin state Legislature has such a rule. It keeps legislation clean and relational to the intent of the original bill.
While there are good arguments on both sides of the debate, I would abolish the filibuster. But that’s not going to happen, so it would be better to double down on it instead.
Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, an election official for 22 years, said she had never seen anything like what she saw in Green Bay during the 2020 presidential election — and she hopes she’ll never see it again.
It is high time that all Americans, and educators especially, understand that African American history is American history. To think otherwise does a gross disservice to students and to our populace as a whole.
Batteries charged on coal power aren’t so good for the environment.
For the 15th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is presenting its Openness in Government Awards.
More than any other team in Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers organization is dependent on attendance.
Police and fire fighter unions handed power over Fire & Police Commission disciplinary hearings.
The discrimination on national origin in the financial industry is actually not a new phenomenon but it is largely unknown due to the power of the financial industry over the mainstream US media.
Our system of government only works if voters get to pick their representatives—not the other way around.
If it waits another week and a half, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will have gone two whole public health emergencies without determining whether said emergencies are actually lawful.
Up 114% since 2000. A change in who owns guns, what kind they own and why they own them.
Evers vows to veto a GOP bill that would end the Democrat’s unilateral control over spending $5.5 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds.
Just before the November election, Congress came together behind increased funding for a program that has helped protect natural places from Devil’s Lake to the Apostle Islands and thousands of areas like them around the country.
The fact that NCAA cross country maintains separate distances for women perpetuates internalized sexism among female athletes.
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.
