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Hold on to your wallet – it’s that time of the year again. Every September of an even year, agencies in Wisconsin state government submit their budget requests for the upcoming gubernatorial proposed budget.
Wisconsin’s 72 counties elect hundreds of officials. County executives are elected on a nonpartisan basis. So are county boards. But clerks, treasurers, district attorneys, sheriffs and other countywide officials are elected on partisan ballot lines.
Before China released the coronavirus onto the world, the American economy was soaring to historic heights, seemingly breaking a new record every month.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selection of a vice presidential candidate was considered his “first presidential act” and an important gauge of his judgment.
Like a Scooby-Doo villain, the governor claims his health chief would have cut those rising COVID numbers if it hadn’t been for those meddling conservatives and their 4-3 ruling.
If Barrett is speedily confirmed she will be able to hear a lawsuit challenging the ACA’s constitutionality.
The key that opened the door for the 2016 upset was the solid bloc of votes in the WOW counties: Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington. These counties surrounding Milwaukee County in southeastern Wisconsin are the engine that drives the Republican machine in our state. That engine may be sputtering a bit.
Almost all those who voted for Trump last time will do so again, plus they will persuade many of their friends and neighbors who were irritated by the tweets last time to jump on the Trump train in 2020.
With seven million already having voted, it is high time to start introducing to the public the Senate hopefuls Biden is counting on, and thus encourage voters back in their home states to fill in more than his name on the ballot.
I have no love for racists. I don’t care about finding common ground with them. I think it is a fool’s errand to do so. If that racist person finds the moral compass which allows them to do what Frank Meeink did and disavow their racist views and redeem themselves in a real way, then I can find common ground with them. I will not do so prematurely.
Scott Walker was the first governor in the state’s history to stubbornly refuse to grant anyone — no matter the circumstances — a chance to get a fresh start on life.
The state’s refusal to identify specific schools with COVID-19 cases suggests a more pernicious problem: that officials don’t trust parents and students to have easy public access to information that could put schools or administrators in a negative light.
Now women teachers are earning less than men. It’s yet more proof: unions empower women.
Flying in the face of its stated commitment to racial equity and social justice, Madison is as racist and classist as less “progressive” cities — and when it comes to environmental justice, perhaps more so.
As Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson tested positive for COVID-19, the WisPolitics.com Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, ponder the polls and his future. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Given the backdrop of chaos at the federal and even the state level, her plan strikes me as in sync with what most Madisonians want.
A study for WPR conducted by the Midwest Economic Policy Institute has found that the repeal of the laws has resulted in lower wages for construction workers in the state, but has not resulted in any statistically significant impact on the cost of public construction projects.
On Thursday, state Rep. Robyn Vining, D-Wauwatosa, broke her silence, but the statement was a vacuous gesture at best.
Republicans claim voting by mail will lead to fraud. But a Montana federal judge’s groundbreaking ruling says that’s a bogus argument.
Biden embodies exactly what we look for in a president and commander in chief.
Hold on to your wallet – it’s that time of the year again. Every September of an even year, agencies in Wisconsin state government submit their budget requests for the upcoming gubernatorial proposed budget.
Wisconsin’s 72 counties elect hundreds of officials. County executives are elected on a nonpartisan basis. So are county boards. But clerks, treasurers, district attorneys, sheriffs and other countywide officials are elected on partisan ballot lines.
Before China released the coronavirus onto the world, the American economy was soaring to historic heights, seemingly breaking a new record every month.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s selection of a vice presidential candidate was considered his “first presidential act” and an important gauge of his judgment.
Like a Scooby-Doo villain, the governor claims his health chief would have cut those rising COVID numbers if it hadn’t been for those meddling conservatives and their 4-3 ruling.
If Barrett is speedily confirmed she will be able to hear a lawsuit challenging the ACA’s constitutionality.
The key that opened the door for the 2016 upset was the solid bloc of votes in the WOW counties: Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington. These counties surrounding Milwaukee County in southeastern Wisconsin are the engine that drives the Republican machine in our state. That engine may be sputtering a bit.
Almost all those who voted for Trump last time will do so again, plus they will persuade many of their friends and neighbors who were irritated by the tweets last time to jump on the Trump train in 2020.
With seven million already having voted, it is high time to start introducing to the public the Senate hopefuls Biden is counting on, and thus encourage voters back in their home states to fill in more than his name on the ballot.
I have no love for racists. I don’t care about finding common ground with them. I think it is a fool’s errand to do so. If that racist person finds the moral compass which allows them to do what Frank Meeink did and disavow their racist views and redeem themselves in a real way, then I can find common ground with them. I will not do so prematurely.
Scott Walker was the first governor in the state’s history to stubbornly refuse to grant anyone — no matter the circumstances — a chance to get a fresh start on life.
The state’s refusal to identify specific schools with COVID-19 cases suggests a more pernicious problem: that officials don’t trust parents and students to have easy public access to information that could put schools or administrators in a negative light.
Now women teachers are earning less than men. It’s yet more proof: unions empower women.
Flying in the face of its stated commitment to racial equity and social justice, Madison is as racist and classist as less “progressive” cities — and when it comes to environmental justice, perhaps more so.
As Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson tested positive for COVID-19, the WisPolitics.com Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, ponder the polls and his future. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Given the backdrop of chaos at the federal and even the state level, her plan strikes me as in sync with what most Madisonians want.
A study for WPR conducted by the Midwest Economic Policy Institute has found that the repeal of the laws has resulted in lower wages for construction workers in the state, but has not resulted in any statistically significant impact on the cost of public construction projects.
On Thursday, state Rep. Robyn Vining, D-Wauwatosa, broke her silence, but the statement was a vacuous gesture at best.
Republicans claim voting by mail will lead to fraud. But a Montana federal judge’s groundbreaking ruling says that’s a bogus argument.
Biden embodies exactly what we look for in a president and commander in chief.
