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Florida, Texas and a host of other states run by politicians who proclaim their opposition to big government have been milking the feds for decades.
Many of our farm families and small business owners feel like they are on life support right now. It is understandable. We are all seeking restoration of opportunities lost to COVID-19. Just as we now have a new appreciation for what is essential, we also have a deeper appreciation for what is truly important in our lives. We know we must be better prepared for what lies ahead. There is no better way to do so than to learn the essential lessons of today.
We have a chance right now to renew civil society, strengthen our social fabric, revitalize localism and show our political elites that we can indeed govern ourselves. This is a time to look at society in new ways and build new technologies that facilitate associations and community and not just promote either the collectivism of the state or individualism.
June, as National Dairy Month, started out as National Milk Month in 1937 as a way to promote drinking milk. Highly nutritious, tasty and versatile, milk is often characterized as “nature’s most nearly perfect food.”
The proponents of austerity do not fade away. They just circle back to propose even greater, and even more dangerous, failures.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has unanimously backed a proposal to send roughly 2.7 million voters an absentee ballot application.
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a sudden spike in cases, hospitalizations, intensive care visits, or deaths. Two weeks to the day after the Supreme Court reopened the state, Wisconsin is … perfectly fine.
The appearance of bias should make recusal mandatory whenever the impartiality of a justice or judge can be questioned.
Why Wisconsin needs an immediate election remedy.
There is no freedom of the press without the press. And the press is threatened, as never before, by the coronavirus pandemic.
Campaign donations flooding in to his opponent Joel Jacobsen.
McConnell actually has been forced to apologize for yet another lie he told about former President Barack Obama.
Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin was effectively balancing public safety and the economy in its COVID-19 response when a reckless state Supreme Court intruded and the Republican Legislature ended negotiations.
It’s time for Republicans to take the win on absentee voting, a win for all Wisconsin voters.
The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity for Trump and his acolyte WI GOP Senator Ron Johnson to undermine checks and balances. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, apparently does not grasp that the Senate and White House are separate institutions.
Wisconsin can’t do it alone. We need the president to stand up for our small businesses and ensure that the programs created to help them do just that.
The Wisconsin Legislature should follow the lead of the Trump administration and United States Senate and act quickly to protect job creators from a flood of frivolous coronavirus lawsuits that is sure to come as Wisconsin reopens for business.
With the 2020 presidential election less than six months away, state and local officials are scrambling to prepare for a potentially massive increase in voting by mail.
Not every town can claim to be the final resting place of a Revolutionary War veteran. But Union Grove, where I came of age, had one. His name was Phineas Cadwell.
It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that reaction to the pandemic has now firmly split along ideological and geographic lines.
Florida, Texas and a host of other states run by politicians who proclaim their opposition to big government have been milking the feds for decades.
Many of our farm families and small business owners feel like they are on life support right now. It is understandable. We are all seeking restoration of opportunities lost to COVID-19. Just as we now have a new appreciation for what is essential, we also have a deeper appreciation for what is truly important in our lives. We know we must be better prepared for what lies ahead. There is no better way to do so than to learn the essential lessons of today.
We have a chance right now to renew civil society, strengthen our social fabric, revitalize localism and show our political elites that we can indeed govern ourselves. This is a time to look at society in new ways and build new technologies that facilitate associations and community and not just promote either the collectivism of the state or individualism.
June, as National Dairy Month, started out as National Milk Month in 1937 as a way to promote drinking milk. Highly nutritious, tasty and versatile, milk is often characterized as “nature’s most nearly perfect food.”
The proponents of austerity do not fade away. They just circle back to propose even greater, and even more dangerous, failures.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has unanimously backed a proposal to send roughly 2.7 million voters an absentee ballot application.
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a sudden spike in cases, hospitalizations, intensive care visits, or deaths. Two weeks to the day after the Supreme Court reopened the state, Wisconsin is … perfectly fine.
The appearance of bias should make recusal mandatory whenever the impartiality of a justice or judge can be questioned.
Why Wisconsin needs an immediate election remedy.
There is no freedom of the press without the press. And the press is threatened, as never before, by the coronavirus pandemic.
Campaign donations flooding in to his opponent Joel Jacobsen.
McConnell actually has been forced to apologize for yet another lie he told about former President Barack Obama.
Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin was effectively balancing public safety and the economy in its COVID-19 response when a reckless state Supreme Court intruded and the Republican Legislature ended negotiations.
It’s time for Republicans to take the win on absentee voting, a win for all Wisconsin voters.
The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity for Trump and his acolyte WI GOP Senator Ron Johnson to undermine checks and balances. Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, apparently does not grasp that the Senate and White House are separate institutions.
Wisconsin can’t do it alone. We need the president to stand up for our small businesses and ensure that the programs created to help them do just that.
The Wisconsin Legislature should follow the lead of the Trump administration and United States Senate and act quickly to protect job creators from a flood of frivolous coronavirus lawsuits that is sure to come as Wisconsin reopens for business.
With the 2020 presidential election less than six months away, state and local officials are scrambling to prepare for a potentially massive increase in voting by mail.
Not every town can claim to be the final resting place of a Revolutionary War veteran. But Union Grove, where I came of age, had one. His name was Phineas Cadwell.
It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that reaction to the pandemic has now firmly split along ideological and geographic lines.
