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Polls show even state’s Republican voters overwhelmingly oppose current policies.
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Polls show even state’s Republican voters overwhelmingly oppose current policies.
It’s time for us to get to work on Wisconsin-centered solutions to climate change.
The company’s quickening pace of construction could ultimately help Trump’s re-election chances in battleground Wisconsin. Bringing Foxconn to the U.S., to southeast Wisconsin in particular, is at the core of Trump’s overall bid to bring manufacturing jobs back home.
Scott Walker and Robin Vos played on the rural-urban resentment to their own political benefit and to the whole state’s disadvantage.
Tourism grew by 35 percent during the last six years and that helped create 21,000 new jobs. It did so in no small part because our administration kept politics out of tourism. Secretary-designee Meaney should do the same.
Assuredly, the mental price of being a Trump Republican is far higher than being a Democrat or even being a Republican was in the recent past.
Some governments refuse anonymous requests for open records. That’s illegal. And anti-democratic.
According to several national economic studies, it’s estimated that 48% of each purchase at local independent businesses is circulated locally, compared to 14% of purchases at chain stores. And even better, the stronger the local business community, the stronger its civic involvement and support for good causes.
Towns are scrambling to take advantage of a soon-to-expire state law they think will give them increased local control, but instead will make big government permanent leading to years of waste. Taxpayers will, of course, foot the bill.
As cities and counties add vehicle registration fees, your cost depends on where you live.
This is likely to be another sad reminder that government cannot solve everything, and it’s up to the culture itself to change to prevent these types of incidents from happening again.
Over that past several months, there has been a lot of rhetoric concerning the basing of F-35 aircraft with the 115th Fighter Wing at Truax Field. This past week, some of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to hear firsthand from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force John Henderson as he dispelled many false narratives and laid out the facts.
Wisconsin’s racial disparities exist in part due to ignorance.
While Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer population is at an all-time record of about 2 million, the number of hunters has plummeted 17 percent over the last three decades.
Lena Taylor blames Mayor Barrett. But did she fight the state law killing residency?
The “new normal” is anything but. But “Hamilton” reminds us that we’ve faced fraught times before — when the soul of our nation was on the line, when vitriol and violence regularly triumphed over reason and respect.
Amid the sound and fury over some major issues, there can be consensus on others.
Trump supporters in the Midwestern states who will decide whether President Donald J. Trump will win a second term next November are organizing, undergoing training and preparing to begin knocking on doors this winter.
John Q. Public can’t get anything from Assembly speaker.
Milwaukee is a violent city, particularly for young people. It’s the sixth most dangerous city in the United States, according to FBI crime data.
Polls show even state’s Republican voters overwhelmingly oppose current policies.
It’s time for us to get to work on Wisconsin-centered solutions to climate change.
The company’s quickening pace of construction could ultimately help Trump’s re-election chances in battleground Wisconsin. Bringing Foxconn to the U.S., to southeast Wisconsin in particular, is at the core of Trump’s overall bid to bring manufacturing jobs back home.
Scott Walker and Robin Vos played on the rural-urban resentment to their own political benefit and to the whole state’s disadvantage.
Tourism grew by 35 percent during the last six years and that helped create 21,000 new jobs. It did so in no small part because our administration kept politics out of tourism. Secretary-designee Meaney should do the same.
Assuredly, the mental price of being a Trump Republican is far higher than being a Democrat or even being a Republican was in the recent past.
Some governments refuse anonymous requests for open records. That’s illegal. And anti-democratic.
According to several national economic studies, it’s estimated that 48% of each purchase at local independent businesses is circulated locally, compared to 14% of purchases at chain stores. And even better, the stronger the local business community, the stronger its civic involvement and support for good causes.
Towns are scrambling to take advantage of a soon-to-expire state law they think will give them increased local control, but instead will make big government permanent leading to years of waste. Taxpayers will, of course, foot the bill.
As cities and counties add vehicle registration fees, your cost depends on where you live.
This is likely to be another sad reminder that government cannot solve everything, and it’s up to the culture itself to change to prevent these types of incidents from happening again.
Over that past several months, there has been a lot of rhetoric concerning the basing of F-35 aircraft with the 115th Fighter Wing at Truax Field. This past week, some of my colleagues and I had the opportunity to hear firsthand from Assistant Secretary of the Air Force John Henderson as he dispelled many false narratives and laid out the facts.
Wisconsin’s racial disparities exist in part due to ignorance.
While Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer population is at an all-time record of about 2 million, the number of hunters has plummeted 17 percent over the last three decades.
Lena Taylor blames Mayor Barrett. But did she fight the state law killing residency?
The “new normal” is anything but. But “Hamilton” reminds us that we’ve faced fraught times before — when the soul of our nation was on the line, when vitriol and violence regularly triumphed over reason and respect.
Amid the sound and fury over some major issues, there can be consensus on others.
Trump supporters in the Midwestern states who will decide whether President Donald J. Trump will win a second term next November are organizing, undergoing training and preparing to begin knocking on doors this winter.
John Q. Public can’t get anything from Assembly speaker.
Milwaukee is a violent city, particularly for young people. It’s the sixth most dangerous city in the United States, according to FBI crime data.