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In a 5-1 vote—with Republican appointees Dean Knudson and Marge Bostelmann joining the three Democrat appointees—the Commission prevented the deployment of special voting deputies to care facilities for the upcoming spring primary on February 16th.
Stein provides an in-depth analysis on WPF’s study of Wisconsin higher education.
Nearly 90% of school districts laid off only five or fewer employees as of June. No administrators were laid off.
It’s up to Timberlake to pull together important players in the supply chain for vaccine and providers who can inject the vaccine. The effort to date has been disjointed at best and mismanaged at worst.
10% of construction workers bilked of $23,500 per year on average.
Clean energy represents a rare opportunity to identify common sense policy and find common ground politically.
Under current law, candidates will begin circulating nomination papers for the 2022 fall elections on April 15, 2022. So any redistricting litigation must be resolved prior to April 15, 2022.
As President Donald Trump leaves office, his central legacy will be the mess he has left for Joe Biden to clean up.
After four deplorable years of the Trump administration, it appears our democracy will go on. But many Americans did not, sadly, survive America’s fascination with radical Trumpery.
Please stop the lies, stop fueling far-right threats to our democracy.
Sen. Ron Johnson is making it clear that he will not support Sen. Mitch McConnell as the Senate Republican leader if McConnell supports the conviction in the Senate of former President Donald Trump.
Elroy “Roy” Stern was erroneously suspected of planning to “cause problems” on Inauguration Day by an “anonymous” informant. The unnamed tipster’s proof, it seems, is that Stern was at the spring protests against Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide lockdowns, according to an incident report.
Based on the results of a survey of 530 UW undergraduates, the report issues dire warnings about the state of student support for the First Amendment at UW–Madison, and it calls for policy reform on campus to “address these critical concerns.”
Trump’s presidency proved that tried-and-true conservative principles of tax cuts and deregulation can dramatically improve the nation’s economy, while his more judicious approach to foreign engagement combined with the aggressive pursuit of more America-centric trade exposed the flaws of Bush-era neo-conservatism.
In this winter of our hardship, let us remember Barack Obama’s timeless words: “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
Even after the stunning and deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, they continued to carry water for Trump’s lies that the election was somehow stolen from him, inciting a crazed political base that is still attempting to overthrow an American election — if not the entire government.
It’s well past time for the media to look in the mirror and acknowledge the role their bias has played in widening our national divide and exacerbating the problem.
Republicans point out the governor had the money and the authority months ago to fix the manpower and organizational problems that plagued an agency that failed to resolve the unemployment claims of tens of thousands of displaced Wisconsinites for months.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, elected by the 20 Senate Republicans to lead their party after former Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald went to Washington, is wrestling with how to emerge from the political shadow of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Dr. King taught us that direct cash payments are a smart response to poverty and mass unemployment. In this crisis, we need to heed that call.
In a 5-1 vote—with Republican appointees Dean Knudson and Marge Bostelmann joining the three Democrat appointees—the Commission prevented the deployment of special voting deputies to care facilities for the upcoming spring primary on February 16th.
Stein provides an in-depth analysis on WPF’s study of Wisconsin higher education.
Nearly 90% of school districts laid off only five or fewer employees as of June. No administrators were laid off.
It’s up to Timberlake to pull together important players in the supply chain for vaccine and providers who can inject the vaccine. The effort to date has been disjointed at best and mismanaged at worst.
10% of construction workers bilked of $23,500 per year on average.
Clean energy represents a rare opportunity to identify common sense policy and find common ground politically.
Under current law, candidates will begin circulating nomination papers for the 2022 fall elections on April 15, 2022. So any redistricting litigation must be resolved prior to April 15, 2022.
As President Donald Trump leaves office, his central legacy will be the mess he has left for Joe Biden to clean up.
After four deplorable years of the Trump administration, it appears our democracy will go on. But many Americans did not, sadly, survive America’s fascination with radical Trumpery.
Please stop the lies, stop fueling far-right threats to our democracy.
Sen. Ron Johnson is making it clear that he will not support Sen. Mitch McConnell as the Senate Republican leader if McConnell supports the conviction in the Senate of former President Donald Trump.
Elroy “Roy” Stern was erroneously suspected of planning to “cause problems” on Inauguration Day by an “anonymous” informant. The unnamed tipster’s proof, it seems, is that Stern was at the spring protests against Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide lockdowns, according to an incident report.
Based on the results of a survey of 530 UW undergraduates, the report issues dire warnings about the state of student support for the First Amendment at UW–Madison, and it calls for policy reform on campus to “address these critical concerns.”
Trump’s presidency proved that tried-and-true conservative principles of tax cuts and deregulation can dramatically improve the nation’s economy, while his more judicious approach to foreign engagement combined with the aggressive pursuit of more America-centric trade exposed the flaws of Bush-era neo-conservatism.
In this winter of our hardship, let us remember Barack Obama’s timeless words: “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
Even after the stunning and deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, they continued to carry water for Trump’s lies that the election was somehow stolen from him, inciting a crazed political base that is still attempting to overthrow an American election — if not the entire government.
It’s well past time for the media to look in the mirror and acknowledge the role their bias has played in widening our national divide and exacerbating the problem.
Republicans point out the governor had the money and the authority months ago to fix the manpower and organizational problems that plagued an agency that failed to resolve the unemployment claims of tens of thousands of displaced Wisconsinites for months.
Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, elected by the 20 Senate Republicans to lead their party after former Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald went to Washington, is wrestling with how to emerge from the political shadow of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Dr. King taught us that direct cash payments are a smart response to poverty and mass unemployment. In this crisis, we need to heed that call.
