
Ruth Conniff: Grabbing back power
With appeals court ruling, Republicans fight to hold on to their lame-duck spoils.
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With appeals court ruling, Republicans fight to hold on to their lame-duck spoils.
The hard truth is that Wisconsin is one of the worst states to raise a black family, and this reality begins with our alarming racial disparities in maternal and birth outcomes.
We continue to spend more on defense than the next several countries — Russia and China included — combined, more than 50 percent of our total budget.
We have to be diligent in making sure that our politicians work for us, and not for special interests who care about profit and not the people.
Have you noticed how since a number of women have announced they’re running for president of the United States that the nebulous term “likability” has returned to the political conversation like “Friday the 13th’s” Jason?
Several candidates running for president recently announced support for plans to “reform” the United States Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices from nine to a larger number.
It is important to elect Hagedorn because we must not allow the left’s animus towards traditional Christians prevent a good man from serving in public office.
Make no mistake. In addition to attempting to eliminate a conservative judicial philosophy from the Wisconsin political landscape, Neubauer and her allies are attempting to eliminate those of faith from the public square.
Too-nice Tony looks to beat the Republicans — repeatedly — at their own game.
A Republican Women of Waukesha County event includes a “Build the Wall” competition.
Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether a bird-death problem even exists.
The collective cruelty that Republicans have offered as their national and Wisconsin health-care prescription is fully exposed.
Liberals are celebrating a big court victory now, but will a Dane County judge’s ruling tossing out laws from the Legislature’s late-year extraordinary session survive the appeals process?
Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer, the liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, says she supports an independent and impartial judiciary, but she sat in judgement on cases concerning clients of her husband’s cleaning business.
Neubauer has the character, experience and qualifications that the people of Wisconsin have a right to expect from their Supreme Court.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a stirring call for the renewal of American democracy during a CNN town hall meeting last week, calling for changing the U.S. Constitution to include a voting rights amendment along the lines long championed by Congressman Mark Pocan.
The confirmation of William Barr as attorney general clearly doomed the Mueller report to the trash bin.
By statute the legislature authorized itself to set its own schedule, and the legislature then did so, expressly noting that it might convene an extraordinary session during the session period.
It’s time for Wisconsin GOP legislators to come to the bargaining table. Wisconsin wants to get to “yes”.
Spurred on by blatantly false internet postings, more parents are refusing vaccinations for their children and claim they have the right to protect their kids from unwelcome “invasions” of their bodies.
With appeals court ruling, Republicans fight to hold on to their lame-duck spoils.
The hard truth is that Wisconsin is one of the worst states to raise a black family, and this reality begins with our alarming racial disparities in maternal and birth outcomes.
We continue to spend more on defense than the next several countries — Russia and China included — combined, more than 50 percent of our total budget.
We have to be diligent in making sure that our politicians work for us, and not for special interests who care about profit and not the people.
Have you noticed how since a number of women have announced they’re running for president of the United States that the nebulous term “likability” has returned to the political conversation like “Friday the 13th’s” Jason?
Several candidates running for president recently announced support for plans to “reform” the United States Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices from nine to a larger number.
It is important to elect Hagedorn because we must not allow the left’s animus towards traditional Christians prevent a good man from serving in public office.
Make no mistake. In addition to attempting to eliminate a conservative judicial philosophy from the Wisconsin political landscape, Neubauer and her allies are attempting to eliminate those of faith from the public square.
Too-nice Tony looks to beat the Republicans — repeatedly — at their own game.
A Republican Women of Waukesha County event includes a “Build the Wall” competition.
Commission staff adds expensive requirement to solar farm project without considering the cost or whether a bird-death problem even exists.
The collective cruelty that Republicans have offered as their national and Wisconsin health-care prescription is fully exposed.
Liberals are celebrating a big court victory now, but will a Dane County judge’s ruling tossing out laws from the Legislature’s late-year extraordinary session survive the appeals process?
Appeals Court Judge Lisa Neubauer, the liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, says she supports an independent and impartial judiciary, but she sat in judgement on cases concerning clients of her husband’s cleaning business.
Neubauer has the character, experience and qualifications that the people of Wisconsin have a right to expect from their Supreme Court.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren delivered a stirring call for the renewal of American democracy during a CNN town hall meeting last week, calling for changing the U.S. Constitution to include a voting rights amendment along the lines long championed by Congressman Mark Pocan.
The confirmation of William Barr as attorney general clearly doomed the Mueller report to the trash bin.
By statute the legislature authorized itself to set its own schedule, and the legislature then did so, expressly noting that it might convene an extraordinary session during the session period.
It’s time for Wisconsin GOP legislators to come to the bargaining table. Wisconsin wants to get to “yes”.
Spurred on by blatantly false internet postings, more parents are refusing vaccinations for their children and claim they have the right to protect their kids from unwelcome “invasions” of their bodies.