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Judge Brian Hagedorn should have been a dream opponent for progressives in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. But thanks to some lucky breaks, late spending and an uninspiring opponent, Hagedorn eked out a victory.
This election was a lay-up and only the WisDems could figure out a way to muff it in grand fashion.
Eric Genrich, a member of the Assembly from 2013 to 2019, was elected as the new mayor of Green Bay. His win is a big deal politically, as it represented a shift in direction for the state’s third-largest city — and another sign that progressive ideas are gaining traction in cities well beyond Madison and Milwaukee.
Scaremongering over socialism is silly and dishonest. Those who dwell in that dishonesty are on the wrong side of history.
In both Madison and Chicago gay candidates for mayor won office.
To make the claim that school choice is undermining public school spending is one of the biggest fallacies regularly repeated by choice opponents.
Compressed gravel base can’t support LCD fabrication plant. So what’s being built?
In late March a group of visiting young Russian journalists who cover the parliament in Moscow visited Washington, D.C., and Madison, meeting a variety of academic, political, and media figures. They were asked to share their impressions.
For the past seven years, our Communication and Civic Renewal research group has been studying contentious politics in Wisconsin. We are particularly interested in how the state’s communication ecology interacts with political, economic and social contexts to affect how people engage in politics.
Vote by party lines on governor’s capital budget breaks with bipartisan tradition.
Seemingly every action in Gov. Tony Evers’ first three months has been marked by incompetence, rank partisanship, childishness, or all three — and he doesn’t seem to be improving.
Democrat Tony Evers has been governor for almost three months. If they were the first innings of a baseball game, the score might be 3-3 between Evers and Republicans who control the Legislature.
Last Monday, Trump ordered the Justice Department to intervene with hard-right GOP governors, asking a federal appeals court to strike down the entire ACA.
There’s no question that a Wisconsin Supreme Court full of judicial activists would send Wisconsin back generations, chipping away – or flat out reversing – a number of conservative priorities and Walker reforms.
Despite the large demand for nursing assistants, wages remain low. Wisconsin Technical Colleges showed nursing assistant as number one in their ‘Jobs in Demand Listing’ for 2018. It also showed the median starting salary of $26,752.
This is the right time in Wisconsin to stand up for water rights.
With the Supreme Court race drawing to a close, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the contest between Lisa Neubauer and Brian Hagedorn. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Jessie Opoien is becoming our opinion editor, replacing Lynn Danielson, who is retiring.
Holder heads a group called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Redrawing Wisconsin’s voting districts is one of its top priorities.
Judge Brian Hagedorn should have been a dream opponent for progressives in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. But thanks to some lucky breaks, late spending and an uninspiring opponent, Hagedorn eked out a victory.
This election was a lay-up and only the WisDems could figure out a way to muff it in grand fashion.
Eric Genrich, a member of the Assembly from 2013 to 2019, was elected as the new mayor of Green Bay. His win is a big deal politically, as it represented a shift in direction for the state’s third-largest city — and another sign that progressive ideas are gaining traction in cities well beyond Madison and Milwaukee.
Scaremongering over socialism is silly and dishonest. Those who dwell in that dishonesty are on the wrong side of history.
In both Madison and Chicago gay candidates for mayor won office.
To make the claim that school choice is undermining public school spending is one of the biggest fallacies regularly repeated by choice opponents.
Compressed gravel base can’t support LCD fabrication plant. So what’s being built?
In late March a group of visiting young Russian journalists who cover the parliament in Moscow visited Washington, D.C., and Madison, meeting a variety of academic, political, and media figures. They were asked to share their impressions.
For the past seven years, our Communication and Civic Renewal research group has been studying contentious politics in Wisconsin. We are particularly interested in how the state’s communication ecology interacts with political, economic and social contexts to affect how people engage in politics.
Vote by party lines on governor’s capital budget breaks with bipartisan tradition.
Seemingly every action in Gov. Tony Evers’ first three months has been marked by incompetence, rank partisanship, childishness, or all three — and he doesn’t seem to be improving.
Democrat Tony Evers has been governor for almost three months. If they were the first innings of a baseball game, the score might be 3-3 between Evers and Republicans who control the Legislature.
Last Monday, Trump ordered the Justice Department to intervene with hard-right GOP governors, asking a federal appeals court to strike down the entire ACA.
There’s no question that a Wisconsin Supreme Court full of judicial activists would send Wisconsin back generations, chipping away – or flat out reversing – a number of conservative priorities and Walker reforms.
Despite the large demand for nursing assistants, wages remain low. Wisconsin Technical Colleges showed nursing assistant as number one in their ‘Jobs in Demand Listing’ for 2018. It also showed the median starting salary of $26,752.
This is the right time in Wisconsin to stand up for water rights.
With the Supreme Court race drawing to a close, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the contest between Lisa Neubauer and Brian Hagedorn. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Jessie Opoien is becoming our opinion editor, replacing Lynn Danielson, who is retiring.
Holder heads a group called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Redrawing Wisconsin’s voting districts is one of its top priorities.
