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While there may be reasons to be reticent about passing the entire package, the bill includes a number of key provisions that warrant consideration in some form.
Republicans want 10 more years of gerrymandering. To do this they would hand all power to state Supreme Court.
The 2020 election in Wisconsin is over, the results are certified, and the outcome is clear: Joe Biden won the Badger State, and he will be the next President of the United States. However, the battle for control of the U.S. Senate isn’t over yet, and it is critical that Wisconsin Republicans move on from our past defeat and instead focus on the potential victories ahead of us.
Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis has filed a substantive, persuasive, and overwhelmingly statutorily supported petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court that is impossible to disregard or dismiss as mere conspiracy-mongering.
It’s a downright pity that the Congress hasn’t stepped in, the Senate choosing to go home rather than pass a meaningful relief bill for restaurants and other small businesses.
Liberal Racine city leaders defying a Wisconsin Supreme Court restraining order on school closures are “drunk with power,” Jim Bender, president of School Choice Wisconsin, tells Empower Wisconsin.
Trump and his supporters must think that delaying the results of this election are akin to a game, where the rules are to be manipulated, falsely manufactured, or ignored.
Coming from the world of manufacturing where “zero defects” or “Six Sigma” is always the ultimate objective, the recent election results in Wisconsin can only be viewed as remarkably reliable.
As the clock winds down on 2020, Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned the Evers administration will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funding.
The data shows us that contrary to popular belief, there is little correlation between spending and student outcomes.
This past February, the state Assembly passed the CARES Act – a bill that will cut unnecessary red tape for PAs, allowing us to expand access to care. The state Senate was poised to pass the bill, too, but the public health crisis cut the legislative session short.
Report finds higher fatalities in state despite fewer accidents during pandemic; crashes often involve alcohol, speeding.
Throughout the months of the pandemic, Republican and Democratic rhetoric, Biden’s win and Trump’s preposterous recounts, protesters in Milwaukee have been marching and fighting for over 180 days with demands for equity, justice and human rights: for Black and Brown people and against police murder and corruption.
Joe Biden understands that people of any party can and do care about climate change, and some Republicans are expressing similar opinions.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department,
I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.
The imperative to protect cultural icons exists today as much as ever, and it has come closer to home.
A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.
Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.
Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.
While there may be reasons to be reticent about passing the entire package, the bill includes a number of key provisions that warrant consideration in some form.
Republicans want 10 more years of gerrymandering. To do this they would hand all power to state Supreme Court.
The 2020 election in Wisconsin is over, the results are certified, and the outcome is clear: Joe Biden won the Badger State, and he will be the next President of the United States. However, the battle for control of the U.S. Senate isn’t over yet, and it is critical that Wisconsin Republicans move on from our past defeat and instead focus on the potential victories ahead of us.
Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis has filed a substantive, persuasive, and overwhelmingly statutorily supported petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court that is impossible to disregard or dismiss as mere conspiracy-mongering.
It’s a downright pity that the Congress hasn’t stepped in, the Senate choosing to go home rather than pass a meaningful relief bill for restaurants and other small businesses.
Liberal Racine city leaders defying a Wisconsin Supreme Court restraining order on school closures are “drunk with power,” Jim Bender, president of School Choice Wisconsin, tells Empower Wisconsin.
Trump and his supporters must think that delaying the results of this election are akin to a game, where the rules are to be manipulated, falsely manufactured, or ignored.
Coming from the world of manufacturing where “zero defects” or “Six Sigma” is always the ultimate objective, the recent election results in Wisconsin can only be viewed as remarkably reliable.
As the clock winds down on 2020, Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned the Evers administration will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost federal funding.
The data shows us that contrary to popular belief, there is little correlation between spending and student outcomes.
This past February, the state Assembly passed the CARES Act – a bill that will cut unnecessary red tape for PAs, allowing us to expand access to care. The state Senate was poised to pass the bill, too, but the public health crisis cut the legislative session short.
Report finds higher fatalities in state despite fewer accidents during pandemic; crashes often involve alcohol, speeding.
Throughout the months of the pandemic, Republican and Democratic rhetoric, Biden’s win and Trump’s preposterous recounts, protesters in Milwaukee have been marching and fighting for over 180 days with demands for equity, justice and human rights: for Black and Brown people and against police murder and corruption.
Joe Biden understands that people of any party can and do care about climate change, and some Republicans are expressing similar opinions.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department,
I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.
The imperative to protect cultural icons exists today as much as ever, and it has come closer to home.
A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.
Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.
Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.
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