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Trying to keep an open mind, it will be helpful to read factual analyses that one hopes will be forthcoming from public sources such as the Legislative Fiscal Bureau and private researchers at the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
Backed by Trump promises and $4 billion in subsidies, company admits factory jobs not coming.
Brian Hagedorn, who is running for the state Supreme Court, wrote a blog beginning in 2005 in which he addressed readers as “fellow soldiers in the culture wars” while posting sometimes provocative comments on homosexuality and abortion.
While regulations that punish negligent or malicious actions are necessary to keep wrongdoers from repeat and predatory behavior, overregulating good-faith businesses has stifled job growth, efficiency, and tech innovation.
Marquette Poll shows where voters of both parties agree. Will GOP leaders take the hint?
For nearly a decade, the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature micromanaged the state’s cities, particularly Madison and Milwaukee. It will have a harder time usurping local control with Gov. Tony Evers in office.
Voters overwhelmingly favor fair maps, yet Vos charging taxpayers millions to fight this.
It looks like it’s up to the voters to demand stronger recusal rules from the state’s highest court and support for these rules from all judicial candidates. The very integrity of our judges at all levels — from the state Supreme Court to municipal court judges — is on the line.
CJ Szafir and Libby Sobic of WILL have written a report, “Roadmap to Student Achievement,” a two-year effort to create a number of policy recommendations to improve student performance.
Vos’ disdain for open records, lip service to the contrary, is evidenced by a steady stream of denials to requests for copies of public records.
Chancellor Blank writes to the U.S. Department of Education regarding a proposed rule that would affect how universities respond to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Wisconsin is naturally blessed with great forests, a wealth of water resources, a varied and beautiful landscape, and an abundance of wildlife. With such a blessing of resources comes the responsibility to be wise stewards.
When you read today that Harley-Davidson’s sales are dropping, don’t forget who had made it his business to poke a stick in the company’s spokes or sat by and watched.
The Trump shutdown, enabled by then House Speaker Paul Ryan, was political folly for both Trump and congressional Republicans.
The actual cost of the wall has been estimated to hit $40 billion.
Out of Wisconsin’s 2,110 public schools, 344 either “fail to meet expectations” or “meet few expectations” on the state report card.
The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State.
New state licensing analysis offers baby step reforms, but more is needed.
Passing a referendum here would lend Wisconsin’s voice to those across the country who have long been asking Congress to effectively overturn the high court’s 5-4 decision that opened the big money spigots and corrupted the nation’s political system.
In his response to Gov. Tony Evers’ first State of the State, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos tried to portray the Democratic governor as a threat to the “accomplishments” of Scott Walker’s tenure — and then he tried to scare voters with the word “socialism.”
Trying to keep an open mind, it will be helpful to read factual analyses that one hopes will be forthcoming from public sources such as the Legislative Fiscal Bureau and private researchers at the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
Backed by Trump promises and $4 billion in subsidies, company admits factory jobs not coming.
Brian Hagedorn, who is running for the state Supreme Court, wrote a blog beginning in 2005 in which he addressed readers as “fellow soldiers in the culture wars” while posting sometimes provocative comments on homosexuality and abortion.
While regulations that punish negligent or malicious actions are necessary to keep wrongdoers from repeat and predatory behavior, overregulating good-faith businesses has stifled job growth, efficiency, and tech innovation.
Marquette Poll shows where voters of both parties agree. Will GOP leaders take the hint?
For nearly a decade, the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature micromanaged the state’s cities, particularly Madison and Milwaukee. It will have a harder time usurping local control with Gov. Tony Evers in office.
Voters overwhelmingly favor fair maps, yet Vos charging taxpayers millions to fight this.
It looks like it’s up to the voters to demand stronger recusal rules from the state’s highest court and support for these rules from all judicial candidates. The very integrity of our judges at all levels — from the state Supreme Court to municipal court judges — is on the line.
CJ Szafir and Libby Sobic of WILL have written a report, “Roadmap to Student Achievement,” a two-year effort to create a number of policy recommendations to improve student performance.
Vos’ disdain for open records, lip service to the contrary, is evidenced by a steady stream of denials to requests for copies of public records.
Chancellor Blank writes to the U.S. Department of Education regarding a proposed rule that would affect how universities respond to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Wisconsin is naturally blessed with great forests, a wealth of water resources, a varied and beautiful landscape, and an abundance of wildlife. With such a blessing of resources comes the responsibility to be wise stewards.
When you read today that Harley-Davidson’s sales are dropping, don’t forget who had made it his business to poke a stick in the company’s spokes or sat by and watched.
The Trump shutdown, enabled by then House Speaker Paul Ryan, was political folly for both Trump and congressional Republicans.
The actual cost of the wall has been estimated to hit $40 billion.
Out of Wisconsin’s 2,110 public schools, 344 either “fail to meet expectations” or “meet few expectations” on the state report card.
The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State.
New state licensing analysis offers baby step reforms, but more is needed.
Passing a referendum here would lend Wisconsin’s voice to those across the country who have long been asking Congress to effectively overturn the high court’s 5-4 decision that opened the big money spigots and corrupted the nation’s political system.
In his response to Gov. Tony Evers’ first State of the State, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos tried to portray the Democratic governor as a threat to the “accomplishments” of Scott Walker’s tenure — and then he tried to scare voters with the word “socialism.”
