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Right now it looks like an endless stalemate. But appearances can be deceiving.
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Right now it looks like an endless stalemate. But appearances can be deceiving.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his Republican colleagues in the state Assembly aren’t faring too well in the national conversation about whether white guys should be able to dictate who we celebrate during February’s Black History Month.

The great American parlor game for the last week has been dissecting the one public Michael Cohen hearing.

What took place as Donald Trump stood for over two hours in front of CPAC attendees must not be dropped from our national conversation. It was the profane language Trump used which makes for many wondering today what has happened to the national dialogue in our nation.

Holder’s plan to campaign on behalf of Neubauer would run counter to the judge’s statements that she would ask outside groups not to campaign for her.

If you view both candidates as “biased,” surely one of their biases is worse than the other’s.

Making the state more appealing to all businesses remains the better course.

The sad reality is that there is a myriad of reasons that victims do not come forward sooner to reveal that they have been sexually assaulted to include shame, denial, fear and more.

What Legislature gives, veto can take away. The battle has begun.

Evers is determined to renew Wisconsin’s historic commitment to worker rights. And he is proposing concrete steps in that direction, with an ambitious plan to overturn the noxious “right-to-work” legislation that was a centerpiece of Walker’s second-term agenda.

It’s time for the 14th annual Madison Reads Leopold event at the UW Arboretum.

Medicaid expansion is an important component of an economic-social tool box to help rural Wisconsin.

It would be wrong to say that there were no winners when Gov. Tony Evers gave his state budget proposal last night. and we all know there were plenty of losers – especially the taxpayers.

John Imes, executive director for Wisconsin Environmental Initiative, shares insights from the GreenBiz 19 conference in Phoenix.
Gov. Tony Evers’ pick for the Public Service Commission, Rebecca Cameron Valcq, is raising concerns over her deep ties to the utility industry.

Results of Wisconsin’s November 2018 elections were nearly identical to the results of the elections two years earlier. Despite talk about a “blue wave,” there was only a hint of improvement for Wisconsin Democrats.

Now that Gov. Tony Evers has released his budget, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate the wisdom of taking federal Medicaid funds to broaden healthcare. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

We must prevent hardcore drinkers from getting behind the wheel.

The Wisconsin Realtors Association recently withdrew its endorsement of state Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn, explaining that “recent disclosures regarding past statements and actions” by Hagedorn led to its decision.

Unlike Trump’s phony “border crisis,” we are facing a real emergency — an emergency that threatens the future well-being of not just our country, but the planet as a whole. It’s an emergency that becomes more obvious with every destructive storm, flood and wildfire. That emergency is, of course, the growing disruption of our climate.

Right now it looks like an endless stalemate. But appearances can be deceiving.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his Republican colleagues in the state Assembly aren’t faring too well in the national conversation about whether white guys should be able to dictate who we celebrate during February’s Black History Month.

The great American parlor game for the last week has been dissecting the one public Michael Cohen hearing.

What took place as Donald Trump stood for over two hours in front of CPAC attendees must not be dropped from our national conversation. It was the profane language Trump used which makes for many wondering today what has happened to the national dialogue in our nation.

Holder’s plan to campaign on behalf of Neubauer would run counter to the judge’s statements that she would ask outside groups not to campaign for her.

If you view both candidates as “biased,” surely one of their biases is worse than the other’s.

Making the state more appealing to all businesses remains the better course.

The sad reality is that there is a myriad of reasons that victims do not come forward sooner to reveal that they have been sexually assaulted to include shame, denial, fear and more.

What Legislature gives, veto can take away. The battle has begun.

Evers is determined to renew Wisconsin’s historic commitment to worker rights. And he is proposing concrete steps in that direction, with an ambitious plan to overturn the noxious “right-to-work” legislation that was a centerpiece of Walker’s second-term agenda.

It’s time for the 14th annual Madison Reads Leopold event at the UW Arboretum.

Medicaid expansion is an important component of an economic-social tool box to help rural Wisconsin.

It would be wrong to say that there were no winners when Gov. Tony Evers gave his state budget proposal last night. and we all know there were plenty of losers – especially the taxpayers.

John Imes, executive director for Wisconsin Environmental Initiative, shares insights from the GreenBiz 19 conference in Phoenix.
Gov. Tony Evers’ pick for the Public Service Commission, Rebecca Cameron Valcq, is raising concerns over her deep ties to the utility industry.

Results of Wisconsin’s November 2018 elections were nearly identical to the results of the elections two years earlier. Despite talk about a “blue wave,” there was only a hint of improvement for Wisconsin Democrats.

Now that Gov. Tony Evers has released his budget, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate the wisdom of taking federal Medicaid funds to broaden healthcare. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

We must prevent hardcore drinkers from getting behind the wheel.

The Wisconsin Realtors Association recently withdrew its endorsement of state Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn, explaining that “recent disclosures regarding past statements and actions” by Hagedorn led to its decision.

Unlike Trump’s phony “border crisis,” we are facing a real emergency — an emergency that threatens the future well-being of not just our country, but the planet as a whole. It’s an emergency that becomes more obvious with every destructive storm, flood and wildfire. That emergency is, of course, the growing disruption of our climate.