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Everyone should have the right to speak without disruption. But no one is entitled to speak without response. Any policy that prohibits disruption must be carefully crafted to protect the right of protest and avoid the sanctioning of protected speech.
Evers’ Public Service Commission appointee Rebecca Cameron Valcq sides with big energy.
Barnes got a lot of negative attention for a series of notable missteps that hurt his general credibility as the second-highest-ranking official in state government.
Another easy win seems certain. Which may not be so good for Milwaukee.
Expanding universal background checks is critical to reducing senseless gun violence.
Nearly as combative as President Trump in standing up for his beliefs but infinitely more even-keeled and polite, Duffy was for northern Wisconsin just as transformative a figure as Trump has been nationally.
If you enjoy wild and unpredictable politics, you’re going to have a lot of fun as a spectator of a three-ring circus during the build-up to the Wisconsin presidential primary and general elections over the next 14 months.
Not one violation on 26 campuses of UW Regents’ policy. But legislators want to pass tough law.
Gov. Tony Evers is still pushing for the Wisconsin Legislature to pass new gun-control legislation and threatening to call a special session to do so. He went so far as to call people’s concerns over his gun-control measures as “BS,” as if adult deliberation and constitutional considerations are now unwelcome in Madison.
Trump is right about our need to focus on the person who pulls the trigger, but completely wrong about people with broadly defined mental illness being responsible for gun violence in America.
All too many of those “quality” politicians Vos talks about have no mind of their own. Like Republicans in Congress do for Donald Trump they meekly follow the dictates and bizarre stands that Vos and Fitzgerald concoct.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interviews Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
With shrinking federal dollars for America’s Job Centers, state and local workforce providers will need to embrace new technologies while expanding one-on-one services to job seekers who seek career advancement and training opportunities. Wisconsin can make this transition with collaboration and thoughtful planning.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that they are gutting key provisions of the Endangered Species Act. In numerous ways, the changes will drastically limit safeguards for threatened species.
For a while earlier this year, it appeared that the UW Athletic Department was actually going to yield to the hundreds of complaints and pleas, mostly from older longtime season ticket holders, to install railings before even more people get hurt falling. Instead, the powers-that-be opted to experiment with hand rails.
An out-of-control Trump “ordered” all U.S. companies to leave China.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interviews Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Wisconsin has far too many programs and not enough dollars to equitably operate them all.
It’s been two years since Republican legislators (and a few Dems) bestowed their blessing on former Gov. Scott Walker’s Foxconn deal. Since then, nothing has gone right, and no one should be surprised.
With the Legislature gearing up for a return to Madison in the fall, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, grade the efforts of the GOP majority in the first half of 2019. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Everyone should have the right to speak without disruption. But no one is entitled to speak without response. Any policy that prohibits disruption must be carefully crafted to protect the right of protest and avoid the sanctioning of protected speech.
Evers’ Public Service Commission appointee Rebecca Cameron Valcq sides with big energy.
Barnes got a lot of negative attention for a series of notable missteps that hurt his general credibility as the second-highest-ranking official in state government.
Another easy win seems certain. Which may not be so good for Milwaukee.
Expanding universal background checks is critical to reducing senseless gun violence.
Nearly as combative as President Trump in standing up for his beliefs but infinitely more even-keeled and polite, Duffy was for northern Wisconsin just as transformative a figure as Trump has been nationally.
If you enjoy wild and unpredictable politics, you’re going to have a lot of fun as a spectator of a three-ring circus during the build-up to the Wisconsin presidential primary and general elections over the next 14 months.
Not one violation on 26 campuses of UW Regents’ policy. But legislators want to pass tough law.
Gov. Tony Evers is still pushing for the Wisconsin Legislature to pass new gun-control legislation and threatening to call a special session to do so. He went so far as to call people’s concerns over his gun-control measures as “BS,” as if adult deliberation and constitutional considerations are now unwelcome in Madison.
Trump is right about our need to focus on the person who pulls the trigger, but completely wrong about people with broadly defined mental illness being responsible for gun violence in America.
All too many of those “quality” politicians Vos talks about have no mind of their own. Like Republicans in Congress do for Donald Trump they meekly follow the dictates and bizarre stands that Vos and Fitzgerald concoct.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interviews Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz.
With shrinking federal dollars for America’s Job Centers, state and local workforce providers will need to embrace new technologies while expanding one-on-one services to job seekers who seek career advancement and training opportunities. Wisconsin can make this transition with collaboration and thoughtful planning.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced that they are gutting key provisions of the Endangered Species Act. In numerous ways, the changes will drastically limit safeguards for threatened species.
For a while earlier this year, it appeared that the UW Athletic Department was actually going to yield to the hundreds of complaints and pleas, mostly from older longtime season ticket holders, to install railings before even more people get hurt falling. Instead, the powers-that-be opted to experiment with hand rails.
An out-of-control Trump “ordered” all U.S. companies to leave China.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interviews Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Wisconsin has far too many programs and not enough dollars to equitably operate them all.
It’s been two years since Republican legislators (and a few Dems) bestowed their blessing on former Gov. Scott Walker’s Foxconn deal. Since then, nothing has gone right, and no one should be surprised.
With the Legislature gearing up for a return to Madison in the fall, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, grade the efforts of the GOP majority in the first half of 2019. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.