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Tent City residents need resources not currently available to them, not destruction of their camp.
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Tent City residents need resources not currently available to them, not destruction of their camp.

Cognitive Dissedence writer Jeff Simpson has passed away after a battle with a rare form of cancer.

Seeking solutions for chronic wasting disease in southwest Wisconsin.

I believe the most compelling reason to support the F-35 jets has to do with our duty as Americans to the larger world.

Stopping the spread of drugs, be it in Northern Wisconsin or statewide, is not a simple task. No one policy will help curb abuse. But with this budget, our criminal justice system is better equipped to make a difference in people’s lives and that’s a good thing that you might not have read about or heard on the local news.

The Texas Legislature created an adult alert to cover people between the ages of 18 and 65.

Make no mistake: the Trump-GOP lawsuit is a ticking time bomb.

Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical.

The use of legalized government murder has been off the table — with a few exceptions — for more than a decade. The feds stopped using it in 2003 and several states, even those who have the death penalty, have declared moratoriums on its use.

I don’t have words of encouragement or hope, only desperation and heartache and fear, only pleading for some small action to change something, because this is the way it is. But this isn’t the way it has to be.

Opportunities still exist in the trades.

Two years after project announced, what’s left of that world-shattering deal?

With two sets of Democratic candidate debates in hand, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider which presidential hopefuls might win Wisconsin’s April 2020 presidential primary. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

The phantom thread under the presidential debates weaves back to how well the Democrats did in 2018.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos turns down a request by Rep. Jimmy Anderson, who uses a wheelchair, to phone into some committee hearings.

According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gas in Chicago hit $3.30 on July 30, a staggering 17% higher than the national average of $2.72 per gallon. Drivers across Illinois are now paying an average of $2.99 a gallon.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In recent weeks, the nation’s top refining lobby has targeted Wisconsin airwaves and opinion pages with attacks against Midwest biofuels, made

For decades Justice Abrahamson was state Supreme Court’s foremost champion of open records.

As reported this week, a referendum for Milwaukee Public Schools is being discussed by district administrators.

While this could be a time for the celebration of bipartisanship, with more Republican power-grabs through undue lawsuits, I guess that’s just another missed opportunity.

Tent City residents need resources not currently available to them, not destruction of their camp.

Cognitive Dissedence writer Jeff Simpson has passed away after a battle with a rare form of cancer.

Seeking solutions for chronic wasting disease in southwest Wisconsin.

I believe the most compelling reason to support the F-35 jets has to do with our duty as Americans to the larger world.

Stopping the spread of drugs, be it in Northern Wisconsin or statewide, is not a simple task. No one policy will help curb abuse. But with this budget, our criminal justice system is better equipped to make a difference in people’s lives and that’s a good thing that you might not have read about or heard on the local news.

The Texas Legislature created an adult alert to cover people between the ages of 18 and 65.

Make no mistake: the Trump-GOP lawsuit is a ticking time bomb.

Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical.

The use of legalized government murder has been off the table — with a few exceptions — for more than a decade. The feds stopped using it in 2003 and several states, even those who have the death penalty, have declared moratoriums on its use.

I don’t have words of encouragement or hope, only desperation and heartache and fear, only pleading for some small action to change something, because this is the way it is. But this isn’t the way it has to be.

Opportunities still exist in the trades.

Two years after project announced, what’s left of that world-shattering deal?

With two sets of Democratic candidate debates in hand, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, consider which presidential hopefuls might win Wisconsin’s April 2020 presidential primary. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

The phantom thread under the presidential debates weaves back to how well the Democrats did in 2018.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos turns down a request by Rep. Jimmy Anderson, who uses a wheelchair, to phone into some committee hearings.

According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of gas in Chicago hit $3.30 on July 30, a staggering 17% higher than the national average of $2.72 per gallon. Drivers across Illinois are now paying an average of $2.99 a gallon.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In recent weeks, the nation’s top refining lobby has targeted Wisconsin airwaves and opinion pages with attacks against Midwest biofuels, made

For decades Justice Abrahamson was state Supreme Court’s foremost champion of open records.

As reported this week, a referendum for Milwaukee Public Schools is being discussed by district administrators.

While this could be a time for the celebration of bipartisanship, with more Republican power-grabs through undue lawsuits, I guess that’s just another missed opportunity.