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Dave Zweifel: Reports of progressivism’s death are greatly exaggerated

WMC’s current CEO, former banking lobbyist Kurt Bauer, is probably right that his organization and Gov. Scott Walker did damage the state’s long history of progressiveness. Where Bob La Follette and his crew drove out the special interests and removed their chokehold on lawmakers and judges, WMC and its allies have bought and bullied their way back into control. Perhaps he shouldn’t forget what happened when they began abusing their power and insisting everything go their way. Those progressives are far from dead.

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Andrew Weiland: Eyes on Evers

Many in the state’s business community are skeptical that Gov. Scott Walker’s replacement, state schools superintendent Tony Evers, can do a better job for the Wisconsin economy.

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Paul Fanlund: Post-election, Tony Evers goes high, his foes go low

It seems clear from his early post-election remarks that Evers will proceed carefully as governor and continue to try to collaborate with a hostile Republican Legislature, one whose margins are guaranteed more by absurd gerrymandering than the public’s will. Those GOP leaders, predictably, want to change some rules in the Capitol to diminish Evers’ powers even before he takes office.

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James Rowen: Walker’s demise cemented by his own clumsy hand

Somewhere out there in academia there’s a master’s or Ph.D thesis in the works to explain how Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker could go from featured speaker at his party’s 2016 national convention to defeated incumbent just two years later. Here’s a workable framework: He did it by his own clumsy hand.

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John Nichols: Empower the state treasurer

Any effort to reform or rearrange state government must respect the will of the voters as framed by the 2018 campaign and its results. There was no serious debate about disempowering the governor. But there was a robust debate about empowering the treasurer.

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Charlie Sykes: How to reform Congress

On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes talks with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, to discuss Gallagher’s article in the Atlantic on his proposals to reform the House of Representatives and the legacy of outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan.

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Dominique Paul Noth: Will Wisconsin stay sleepy the next 40 days?

Basking in the mammoth November election victory and preparing for a festive holiday season, the Wisconsin public is little in the mood to think of politics or the degree of mischief the Republicans are contemplating in the 40 odd days before Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are sworn in as Democratic leaders January 7. This is just the sort of lull the GOP loves to pounce in.

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Dave Zweifel: Reports of progressivism’s death are greatly exaggerated

WMC’s current CEO, former banking lobbyist Kurt Bauer, is probably right that his organization and Gov. Scott Walker did damage the state’s long history of progressiveness. Where Bob La Follette and his crew drove out the special interests and removed their chokehold on lawmakers and judges, WMC and its allies have bought and bullied their way back into control. Perhaps he shouldn’t forget what happened when they began abusing their power and insisting everything go their way. Those progressives are far from dead.

Read More »

Andrew Weiland: Eyes on Evers

Many in the state’s business community are skeptical that Gov. Scott Walker’s replacement, state schools superintendent Tony Evers, can do a better job for the Wisconsin economy.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Post-election, Tony Evers goes high, his foes go low

It seems clear from his early post-election remarks that Evers will proceed carefully as governor and continue to try to collaborate with a hostile Republican Legislature, one whose margins are guaranteed more by absurd gerrymandering than the public’s will. Those GOP leaders, predictably, want to change some rules in the Capitol to diminish Evers’ powers even before he takes office.

Read More »

James Rowen: Walker’s demise cemented by his own clumsy hand

Somewhere out there in academia there’s a master’s or Ph.D thesis in the works to explain how Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker could go from featured speaker at his party’s 2016 national convention to defeated incumbent just two years later. Here’s a workable framework: He did it by his own clumsy hand.

Read More »

John Nichols: Empower the state treasurer

Any effort to reform or rearrange state government must respect the will of the voters as framed by the 2018 campaign and its results. There was no serious debate about disempowering the governor. But there was a robust debate about empowering the treasurer.

Read More »

Charlie Sykes: How to reform Congress

On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes talks with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, to discuss Gallagher’s article in the Atlantic on his proposals to reform the House of Representatives and the legacy of outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Read More »

Dominique Paul Noth: Will Wisconsin stay sleepy the next 40 days?

Basking in the mammoth November election victory and preparing for a festive holiday season, the Wisconsin public is little in the mood to think of politics or the degree of mischief the Republicans are contemplating in the 40 odd days before Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes are sworn in as Democratic leaders January 7. This is just the sort of lull the GOP loves to pounce in.

Read More »

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