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General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
Discrimination and harassment know no partisan bounds. The only upside to speaking out against these behaviors is that someone following in your footsteps might have an easier time.
There are things I’ve seen that are well meaning acts by racial justice advocates that seem well meaning but are a real turnoff and leads to frustration and burnout from those of us who are victimized by American racism.
Egg shells are never a very solid foundation on which to have a discussion.
Hupy’s donations to Ron Johnson attacked by Minocqua brewer and law firm losing business.
Three out of every four lawmakers who went through the historical Act 10 fight exactly one decade ago are no longer in the Legislature. So where are many of those elected officials now?
Under H.R. 1, states would be prevented from enforcing voter ID laws. While Wisconsin’s key voter integrity protection wouldn’t be banned, the state could no longer demand voters show identification to obtain a mail-in ballot.
As we close out Black History Month, it is disheartening to think of how many of the old racial fights remain or have resurfaced.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Wisconsin lawmakers will soon begin redrawing congressional and state voting boundaries, in accordance with the latest Census. It’s a good time
The Republican bench is young and talented, deep and hungry. Donald Trump will not be the party’s nominee in 2024.
U.S. should heed his example and hold China accountable for human rights abuses.
The loss of the passenger pigeon isn’t just history. Even seemingly robust natural resources can prove to be fragile.
The Driftless region and its residents are being buffeted by several landscape-scale projects that have divided neighbors and ignited citizen and environmental groups.
We are right in the middle of two “wars” – one the biggest public health battle in the history of the state, the other a deep fiscal crisis for the state and therefore for the university, too. Tommy is fully engaged in both monumental crises. It’s just not a good time to bring in a newcomer.
On Saturday morning the Democratic-led House passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) 219-212 along party lines.
General purpose revenues from the state are about $12,000 per student per year at UW-Madison, compared to about $6,000 at UWM and $4500 at the other 11 other four-year campuses, including Parkside. Clearly, there is a funding gap of Grand Canyon proportions.
Gov. Tony Evers’ Department of Health Services plans to put teachers in the Madison and Milwaukee school districts at the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line — even as those educators have led a year-long resistance movement against re-opening schools.
The common sense case for government intervention.
In both Wisconsin and across the country, new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have all dropped precipitously since their highs late fall and early winter, yet public policy remains frustratingly the same—and very well could be until the end of this year.
My hope is the Legislature will continue to update the system to make it work for everyone—and stop blaming each other for its failures.
As usual, WMC doesn’t want local people to make local tax decisions. They like their bought-and-paid-for legislators making the call. That way they always come out ahead.
Discrimination and harassment know no partisan bounds. The only upside to speaking out against these behaviors is that someone following in your footsteps might have an easier time.
There are things I’ve seen that are well meaning acts by racial justice advocates that seem well meaning but are a real turnoff and leads to frustration and burnout from those of us who are victimized by American racism.
Egg shells are never a very solid foundation on which to have a discussion.
Hupy’s donations to Ron Johnson attacked by Minocqua brewer and law firm losing business.
Three out of every four lawmakers who went through the historical Act 10 fight exactly one decade ago are no longer in the Legislature. So where are many of those elected officials now?
Under H.R. 1, states would be prevented from enforcing voter ID laws. While Wisconsin’s key voter integrity protection wouldn’t be banned, the state could no longer demand voters show identification to obtain a mail-in ballot.
As we close out Black History Month, it is disheartening to think of how many of the old racial fights remain or have resurfaced.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Wisconsin lawmakers will soon begin redrawing congressional and state voting boundaries, in accordance with the latest Census. It’s a good time
The Republican bench is young and talented, deep and hungry. Donald Trump will not be the party’s nominee in 2024.
U.S. should heed his example and hold China accountable for human rights abuses.
The loss of the passenger pigeon isn’t just history. Even seemingly robust natural resources can prove to be fragile.
The Driftless region and its residents are being buffeted by several landscape-scale projects that have divided neighbors and ignited citizen and environmental groups.
We are right in the middle of two “wars” – one the biggest public health battle in the history of the state, the other a deep fiscal crisis for the state and therefore for the university, too. Tommy is fully engaged in both monumental crises. It’s just not a good time to bring in a newcomer.
On Saturday morning the Democratic-led House passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) 219-212 along party lines.
