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Milwaukee County Supervisor Dan Sebring is understandably annoyed at a mural wrap on a county bus sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum. The mural is a student “art” project that is anti-immigration law enforcement. While we should be sympathetic to Sebring’s concerns about the insult to law enforcement, the mural is not “racist.”
Some progress on democracy in Wisconsin requires a look to the past.
Although Cephus steadfastly maintained his innocence from day one, Cephus was charged with serious crimes that exposed him to significant prison time, if convicted. Cephus was also suspended from the UW football team and expelled from the university. Cephus’ reputation was trashed, his career was in ruins and his life was effectively destroyed.
Trump and the faltering GOP don’t have Wisconsin’s back. Only a clean Democratic sweep in 2020 will bring change.
Test-based accountability has destroyed the profession.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. During his administration, President Obama started a war on U.S. energy independence and manufacturing jobs, hitting the Midwest especially hard —
In an effort to clean-up the statutes, Marklein’s bill would remove 19 pages by deleting language associated with seven obsolete tax credits and obsolete Illinois income tax reciprocity criteria.
Joint Finance co-chair made it too costly to test his claim of support for GOP budget bill.
Zweifel writes about an idea a reader shared to raise the bar on votes needed to win an election.
With a new conservative justice in place, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate partisanship and the state Supreme Court. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Outgoing Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham’s experience shows why leading here is so hard.
A recent column by state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, called commercial pot a “gateway to equity, opportunity, and moving Wisconsin forward.” Such an outlandish statement requires some fact checking.
In a country when so many gun deaths are suicides, red flag laws have proven to help take guns away from people going through obvious trauma, or drinking bouts or opioid distress. There is evidence that taking away the methods of suicide – guns, pills, whatever –deter suicidal folk. But there is little evidence that, outside suicides, red flag laws are more than a drop in the bucket of blood our society endures
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In past years, the safety of our drinking water has come to the forefront of Wisconsin’s political landscape. Extensive studies have
A conservative publication has filed lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Tony Evers for systematically excluding it from press events, including his administration’s budget press briefing that was open to other journalists.
Wisconsin under GOP control loosened or eliminated various pesky controls on weapon possession during the Walker era.
Poll shows city residents support increased funding for MPS, but referendum still faces obstacles.
To be fair, Republicans and Democrats alike, have benefited from partisan gerrymandering. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering has opened the door to more shenanigans from legislators seeking to retain control.
The times clearly call for some adjustments, some reckonings that go beyond the slow walk the electorate usually uses to correct itself. But these are not the adjustments we are getting.
Top down approaches from the federal government must end and more flexibility for states on important issues like school discipline must be encouraged.
Milwaukee County Supervisor Dan Sebring is understandably annoyed at a mural wrap on a county bus sponsored by the Milwaukee Art Museum. The mural is a student “art” project that is anti-immigration law enforcement. While we should be sympathetic to Sebring’s concerns about the insult to law enforcement, the mural is not “racist.”
Some progress on democracy in Wisconsin requires a look to the past.
Although Cephus steadfastly maintained his innocence from day one, Cephus was charged with serious crimes that exposed him to significant prison time, if convicted. Cephus was also suspended from the UW football team and expelled from the university. Cephus’ reputation was trashed, his career was in ruins and his life was effectively destroyed.
Trump and the faltering GOP don’t have Wisconsin’s back. Only a clean Democratic sweep in 2020 will bring change.
Test-based accountability has destroyed the profession.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. During his administration, President Obama started a war on U.S. energy independence and manufacturing jobs, hitting the Midwest especially hard —
In an effort to clean-up the statutes, Marklein’s bill would remove 19 pages by deleting language associated with seven obsolete tax credits and obsolete Illinois income tax reciprocity criteria.
Joint Finance co-chair made it too costly to test his claim of support for GOP budget bill.
Zweifel writes about an idea a reader shared to raise the bar on votes needed to win an election.
With a new conservative justice in place, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate partisanship and the state Supreme Court. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Outgoing Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham’s experience shows why leading here is so hard.
A recent column by state Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, called commercial pot a “gateway to equity, opportunity, and moving Wisconsin forward.” Such an outlandish statement requires some fact checking.
In a country when so many gun deaths are suicides, red flag laws have proven to help take guns away from people going through obvious trauma, or drinking bouts or opioid distress. There is evidence that taking away the methods of suicide – guns, pills, whatever –deter suicidal folk. But there is little evidence that, outside suicides, red flag laws are more than a drop in the bucket of blood our society endures
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In past years, the safety of our drinking water has come to the forefront of Wisconsin’s political landscape. Extensive studies have
A conservative publication has filed lawsuit in federal court against Gov. Tony Evers for systematically excluding it from press events, including his administration’s budget press briefing that was open to other journalists.
Wisconsin under GOP control loosened or eliminated various pesky controls on weapon possession during the Walker era.
Poll shows city residents support increased funding for MPS, but referendum still faces obstacles.
To be fair, Republicans and Democrats alike, have benefited from partisan gerrymandering. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering has opened the door to more shenanigans from legislators seeking to retain control.
The times clearly call for some adjustments, some reckonings that go beyond the slow walk the electorate usually uses to correct itself. But these are not the adjustments we are getting.
Top down approaches from the federal government must end and more flexibility for states on important issues like school discipline must be encouraged.
