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Johnson should stop blocking COVID-19 relief and recovery aid, and be transparent about how an earlier COVID-19 aid bill expanded the pass-through tax break (70 percent of pass-through income goes to the top one percent).
Our health care professionals have been at the forefront of this public health crisis since the beginning. We must do everything we can to show our support for their selfless work. As a Legislature, this starts by passing the Healthcare Heroes Act.
If Wisconsin doesn’t take necessary steps to protect voters and poll workers on Election Day, crowded polling places could become transmission hot spots.
With Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee converted to a mostly virtual production, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer contrasting views on how each party can strengthen its candidate’s support.
After seven years as diversity chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Patrick Sims departs, offering his candid assessment. It’s not that good.
The president blurted out his determination to undermine voting rights in a Fox Business Network interview.
West himself even admitted to reporters that he was running a spoiler campaign in order to hurt Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Wisconsin conservative justices this week passed on another opportunity to rein in another power-hungry, unelected bureaucrat.
I have served on the Fire and Police Commission for seven years. For seven years, I have acted with integrity. For seven years, I have put the best interests of Milwaukee first. Any decision I have made was because I believe Milwaukee is a great city. My only fault is that I pushed back against a broken system. A system that does not benefit all of the citizens of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is disappointed, yet reducing the Democratic National Convention to a virtual event was a smart move. But even after the pandemic, will big, expensive political conventions ever make sense again?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week rejected a petition from parents seeking relief from Milwaukee’s overreaching health officer.
Forcing students back into schools when the underlying pandemic hasn’t been adequately addressed is the equivalent of forcing kids into a burning building nobody bothered to extinguish.
We need a rapid course correction, or we stand to lose about a third of our child care providers.
In the latest Marquette University Law School Poll: Breaking down Biden vs. Trump, the divergent views of Wisconsin men and women, Republican mask outrage, and broadly popular Democratic policies.
We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design — not “accommodation.”
When the outbreaks come, and they will, we must not panic. We must act, but we must not panic. And when we act to isolate the infected and mitigate the spread, we must do so with the overarching goal of keeping our schools open.
New study suggests city couldn’t get any worse. New effort aims to improve that.
I’m starting to think that the biggest needs in this country are for online courses, video games and TV shows devoted to mask etiquette and efficacy.
Fitzgerald couldn’t help exhibiting his Donald Trump bona fides last week when asked to comment on Trump’s suggestion that the presidential election be delayed this fall.
Johnson should stop blocking COVID-19 relief and recovery aid, and be transparent about how an earlier COVID-19 aid bill expanded the pass-through tax break (70 percent of pass-through income goes to the top one percent).
Our health care professionals have been at the forefront of this public health crisis since the beginning. We must do everything we can to show our support for their selfless work. As a Legislature, this starts by passing the Healthcare Heroes Act.
If Wisconsin doesn’t take necessary steps to protect voters and poll workers on Election Day, crowded polling places could become transmission hot spots.
With Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee converted to a mostly virtual production, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, offer contrasting views on how each party can strengthen its candidate’s support.
After seven years as diversity chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Patrick Sims departs, offering his candid assessment. It’s not that good.
The president blurted out his determination to undermine voting rights in a Fox Business Network interview.
West himself even admitted to reporters that he was running a spoiler campaign in order to hurt Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Wisconsin conservative justices this week passed on another opportunity to rein in another power-hungry, unelected bureaucrat.
I have served on the Fire and Police Commission for seven years. For seven years, I have acted with integrity. For seven years, I have put the best interests of Milwaukee first. Any decision I have made was because I believe Milwaukee is a great city. My only fault is that I pushed back against a broken system. A system that does not benefit all of the citizens of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is disappointed, yet reducing the Democratic National Convention to a virtual event was a smart move. But even after the pandemic, will big, expensive political conventions ever make sense again?
The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week rejected a petition from parents seeking relief from Milwaukee’s overreaching health officer.
Forcing students back into schools when the underlying pandemic hasn’t been adequately addressed is the equivalent of forcing kids into a burning building nobody bothered to extinguish.
We need a rapid course correction, or we stand to lose about a third of our child care providers.
In the latest Marquette University Law School Poll: Breaking down Biden vs. Trump, the divergent views of Wisconsin men and women, Republican mask outrage, and broadly popular Democratic policies.
We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design — not “accommodation.”
When the outbreaks come, and they will, we must not panic. We must act, but we must not panic. And when we act to isolate the infected and mitigate the spread, we must do so with the overarching goal of keeping our schools open.
New study suggests city couldn’t get any worse. New effort aims to improve that.
I’m starting to think that the biggest needs in this country are for online courses, video games and TV shows devoted to mask etiquette and efficacy.
Fitzgerald couldn’t help exhibiting his Donald Trump bona fides last week when asked to comment on Trump’s suggestion that the presidential election be delayed this fall.
