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On this week’s Badgercast: Christopher Scalia, PhD, director of academic programs, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of “Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived” and “On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer.”
The GOP legislature, which is being controlled by the National Rifle Association, will never allow for reasonable gun control bills to see the light of day.
They’re opposed because the $5 billion in new educational investment would be directed by state-based not-for-profits in conjunction with students and parents, not bureaucrats.
What do state policies on Foxconn and dairy industry have in common?
Fair voting maps are fundamental to what makes democracy work.
What has happened in Baraboo since some high school students were photographed making a Nazi salute last November hasn’t been treated as news but should be.
The negative impacts of the F-35 deployment are too great, and we question why Truax is a top pick when the impact on our community is the most severe in terms of the wide area affected as well as the disproportionate impacts on children, people with low incomes and people of color out of the five sites being considered.
What’s been perplexing through the years is the Wisconsin agriculture community’s love affair with the party that hasn’t really ever done anything to help the farmers’ economic plight.
For the third straight school year, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) reports that far fewer than half of the state’s third through 11th graders are proficient in reading.
Working with Koch groups, they push Trump to slash safety net.
I implore all of us to celebrate National HBCU Week by taking time to research information about historically black colleges, learn the history and purpose of these institutions and know that they are still in existence today for good reason.
I wouldn’t be too surprised to see a proposal in the next few years to actually reduce the size of Camp Randall.
Idea Fest 2019 was our biggest and best. Last year, we had only one session — the keynote panel featuring national political celebrity David Axelrod — that justified using large-capacity Shannon Hall. This year we had seven.
The F-35 project is an example of commercial greed at its most indefensible. It has no place in Madison or anywhere else in Wisconsin.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The Wisconsin Legislature has been working hard to re-establish a Budget Stabilization Fund, also known as our Rainy Day Fund. It
The money that the state budget authorized for helping fund the Center For Suicide Awareness has not yet been allocated.
After much debate and a second vote by the County Board, Washington County will have a county executive. The structural change in government offers the citizens of Washington County an opportunity to reset the direction of the county for years to come.
If your community has a good local news source, use it, or you’ll lose it. The demise of outlets like local daily newspapers and news radio stations is bad news for our communities.
The tragic Wisconsin case involving the 10-year-old girl charged with homicide demonstrates the need to re-examine whether young children should be facing the most serious adult penalties in the adult criminal justice system, as opposed to being held accountable in the juvenile system.
Wisconsin voters should encourage GOP legislators to do right: ring the Madison Capitol Square with posters of GOP governors and legislators from around the nation on why they supported Medicaid expansion for their states.
On this week’s Badgercast: Christopher Scalia, PhD, director of academic programs, American Enterprise Institute & co-author of “Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived” and “On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer.”
The GOP legislature, which is being controlled by the National Rifle Association, will never allow for reasonable gun control bills to see the light of day.
They’re opposed because the $5 billion in new educational investment would be directed by state-based not-for-profits in conjunction with students and parents, not bureaucrats.
What do state policies on Foxconn and dairy industry have in common?
Fair voting maps are fundamental to what makes democracy work.
What has happened in Baraboo since some high school students were photographed making a Nazi salute last November hasn’t been treated as news but should be.
The negative impacts of the F-35 deployment are too great, and we question why Truax is a top pick when the impact on our community is the most severe in terms of the wide area affected as well as the disproportionate impacts on children, people with low incomes and people of color out of the five sites being considered.
What’s been perplexing through the years is the Wisconsin agriculture community’s love affair with the party that hasn’t really ever done anything to help the farmers’ economic plight.
For the third straight school year, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) reports that far fewer than half of the state’s third through 11th graders are proficient in reading.
Working with Koch groups, they push Trump to slash safety net.
I implore all of us to celebrate National HBCU Week by taking time to research information about historically black colleges, learn the history and purpose of these institutions and know that they are still in existence today for good reason.
I wouldn’t be too surprised to see a proposal in the next few years to actually reduce the size of Camp Randall.
Idea Fest 2019 was our biggest and best. Last year, we had only one session — the keynote panel featuring national political celebrity David Axelrod — that justified using large-capacity Shannon Hall. This year we had seven.
The F-35 project is an example of commercial greed at its most indefensible. It has no place in Madison or anywhere else in Wisconsin.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. The Wisconsin Legislature has been working hard to re-establish a Budget Stabilization Fund, also known as our Rainy Day Fund. It
The money that the state budget authorized for helping fund the Center For Suicide Awareness has not yet been allocated.
After much debate and a second vote by the County Board, Washington County will have a county executive. The structural change in government offers the citizens of Washington County an opportunity to reset the direction of the county for years to come.
If your community has a good local news source, use it, or you’ll lose it. The demise of outlets like local daily newspapers and news radio stations is bad news for our communities.
The tragic Wisconsin case involving the 10-year-old girl charged with homicide demonstrates the need to re-examine whether young children should be facing the most serious adult penalties in the adult criminal justice system, as opposed to being held accountable in the juvenile system.
Wisconsin voters should encourage GOP legislators to do right: ring the Madison Capitol Square with posters of GOP governors and legislators from around the nation on why they supported Medicaid expansion for their states.
