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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.
Worker Justice Wisconsin is a nonprofit that was formed in 2018 through a merger of the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and the Workers’ Right Center. It’s now a coalition of religious congregations, interfaith bodies, labor unions and individuals.
With the passing of former WEAC executive director Morris Andrews earlier this fall, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss his career and legacy and chart the changing nature of labor unions. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Start with the impeachment hearings polarizing the nation, and add to that gun control, the border wall, and, here in Wisconsin, the legislative leadership’s heavy-handed partisanship. We have a host of potential minefields.
FDR recognized the annual production of the Thanksgiving proclamation as much more than a perfunctory task. Each of the 32nd president’s dozen proclamations was unique, and as his tenure progressed, Roosevelt used them to express the values of the New Deal and the internationalist struggle against fascism.
This Thanksgiving, thank God for America and pray that He will provide our country with the grace to continue to be the home of the free.
A health system that has served most of the rest of the civilized world quite well the past many decades at relatively half the cost that Americans spend has been demonized as unworkable and hopelessly unaffordable.
Republicans in the Legislature tried to help ease the shortage of certified nursing assistants with a common-sense bill, but the Democrats opposed it every step of the way, culminating with Gov. Tony Evers vetoing the entire bill.
Voters in the financially troubled Palmyra-Eagle Area School District have made it clear they want the public school system to dissolve.
Charges ethnic festivals more rent than it pays city, like “a greedy landlord,” alderman charges.
Lawmakers push for cursive writing requirement while ignoring real education needs.
Ron Johnson hasn’t gained the notoriety McCarthy’s “Red Scare” produced back in the 1950s, but he’s obviously working on it.
Before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman delivered damning testimony about Trump’s wrongdoing to the House Intelligence Committee, he was the subject of a crude and dishonest attack by Johnson.
Mike Nichols of the Badger Institute and David Ditch of the Heritage Foundation talk about out-of-control spending on wasteful projects, and the impact this has on federalism and state sovereignty.
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.
Worker Justice Wisconsin is a nonprofit that was formed in 2018 through a merger of the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and the Workers’ Right Center. It’s now a coalition of religious congregations, interfaith bodies, labor unions and individuals.
With the passing of former WEAC executive director Morris Andrews earlier this fall, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss his career and legacy and chart the changing nature of labor unions. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Start with the impeachment hearings polarizing the nation, and add to that gun control, the border wall, and, here in Wisconsin, the legislative leadership’s heavy-handed partisanship. We have a host of potential minefields.
FDR recognized the annual production of the Thanksgiving proclamation as much more than a perfunctory task. Each of the 32nd president’s dozen proclamations was unique, and as his tenure progressed, Roosevelt used them to express the values of the New Deal and the internationalist struggle against fascism.
This Thanksgiving, thank God for America and pray that He will provide our country with the grace to continue to be the home of the free.
A health system that has served most of the rest of the civilized world quite well the past many decades at relatively half the cost that Americans spend has been demonized as unworkable and hopelessly unaffordable.
Republicans in the Legislature tried to help ease the shortage of certified nursing assistants with a common-sense bill, but the Democrats opposed it every step of the way, culminating with Gov. Tony Evers vetoing the entire bill.
Voters in the financially troubled Palmyra-Eagle Area School District have made it clear they want the public school system to dissolve.
Charges ethnic festivals more rent than it pays city, like “a greedy landlord,” alderman charges.
Lawmakers push for cursive writing requirement while ignoring real education needs.
Ron Johnson hasn’t gained the notoriety McCarthy’s “Red Scare” produced back in the 1950s, but he’s obviously working on it.
Before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman delivered damning testimony about Trump’s wrongdoing to the House Intelligence Committee, he was the subject of a crude and dishonest attack by Johnson.
Mike Nichols of the Badger Institute and David Ditch of the Heritage Foundation talk about out-of-control spending on wasteful projects, and the impact this has on federalism and state sovereignty.
