Steven Walters: Gerrymander caused women Assembly losses?
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018
27 women Democrats running for Assembly lost, women leaders point to gerrymandering.
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Andrew Weiland: Eyes on Evers
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
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.
Cory Fish: Correcting the record on the ‘dark stores’ theory
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
Increasing the tax assessment on a property based on occupancy or based on financing does not reflect economic reality.
Matt Rothschild: GOP push to change primary is a slap at Wisconsin voters
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
The proposal by Wisconsin’s top Republican officials to change the date of the presidential primary is another manipulative move to undermine the will of Wisconsin voters.
James Rowen: 6 experts explain how WI can have the better DNR it needs
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
Rowen share insights from six experts on how to improve the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Dave Zweifel: Which is the party of spendthrifts? (Hint: It starts with R)
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
If one goes back and takes a look at which administrations actually added to the enormous national debt, they will find the claims that the GOP was fiscally prudent is an out-and-out myth.
Paul Fanlund: Post-election, Tony Evers goes high, his foes go low
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
James Rowen: Walker’s demise cemented by his own clumsy hand
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
John Nichols: Empower the state treasurer
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
Jessie Opoien & Rick Esenberg: The past and future of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
The Capital Time’s Jessie Opoien joins WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg to discuss the organization’s growth and future.
WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ give thanks for an interesting political landscape
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
As the turkey waits its turn at the table, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, pause to give thanks for an interesting political landscape! Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Dave Zweifel: As we give thanks, let’s vow to work harder
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
Perhaps this month’s elections are reason to give thanks, signaling that like in other times, the world’s greatest experiment in democracy will regain its footing and, indeed, put a brake on the craziness.
Charlie Sykes: How to reform Congress
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
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.
Dave Cieslewicz: Election brings hope this deer season
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
For almost two decades there has been a cloud over the festivities: chronic wasting disease. And for the last eight years, the government has done nothing to keep it from spreading.
Bruce Murphy: Walker wants to rig high court election
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
That’s what the citizens get for daring to vote against him.
Casey Hoff: Baraboo High School photo cheapens the Holocaust, exposes ignorance
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
The photo of the smiling students from Baraboo High School, in which many of them appear to be giving the Nazi salute, is a prime example of how forgetting the horrors of the past can cheapen the memory of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
Dominique Paul Noth: Will Wisconsin stay sleepy the next 40 days?
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
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.
James Rowen: 11th hour tricks will speed up the Fitzgerald, Walker, Vos final bell
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
GOP leaders in Wisconsin are ready, willing and able to deal themselves an unnecessary and crippling self-inflicted political wound.
James Wigderson & Steve Scaffidi: Baraboo, Foxconn, Kleefisch and Schimel
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson joins Steve Scaffidi on AM 620 WTMJ to discuss the week in politics.
Dave Hansen: Response to Nygren’s comments on the Kimberly-Clark bailout
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
Recently Rep. Nygren claimed in a press release that I don’t care about or support the Kimberly-Clark workers in Marinette because I have not committed to voting for AB-963, a bill that would give Kimberly-Clark, a Texas-based corporation up to $100 million or more in taxpayer cash to protect 388 jobs in the Fox Valley. Unfortunately, there are significant concerns with this bill. So significant in fact, that I was told as many as 8 Republican senators are opposed to it.
Steven Walters: Gerrymander caused women Assembly losses?
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018
27 women Democrats running for Assembly lost, women leaders point to gerrymandering.
Andrew Weiland: Eyes on Evers
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
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.
Cory Fish: Correcting the record on the ‘dark stores’ theory
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
Increasing the tax assessment on a property based on occupancy or based on financing does not reflect economic reality.
Matt Rothschild: GOP push to change primary is a slap at Wisconsin voters
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
The proposal by Wisconsin’s top Republican officials to change the date of the presidential primary is another manipulative move to undermine the will of Wisconsin voters.
James Rowen: 6 experts explain how WI can have the better DNR it needs
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
Rowen share insights from six experts on how to improve the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Dave Zweifel: Which is the party of spendthrifts? (Hint: It starts with R)
Tuesday, Nov 27, 2018
If one goes back and takes a look at which administrations actually added to the enormous national debt, they will find the claims that the GOP was fiscally prudent is an out-and-out myth.
Paul Fanlund: Post-election, Tony Evers goes high, his foes go low
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
James Rowen: Walker’s demise cemented by his own clumsy hand
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
John Nichols: Empower the state treasurer
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
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.
Jessie Opoien & Rick Esenberg: The past and future of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty
Monday, Nov 26, 2018
The Capital Time’s Jessie Opoien joins WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg to discuss the organization’s growth and future.
WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ give thanks for an interesting political landscape
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
As the turkey waits its turn at the table, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, pause to give thanks for an interesting political landscape! Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Dave Zweifel: As we give thanks, let’s vow to work harder
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
Perhaps this month’s elections are reason to give thanks, signaling that like in other times, the world’s greatest experiment in democracy will regain its footing and, indeed, put a brake on the craziness.
Charlie Sykes: How to reform Congress
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
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.
Dave Cieslewicz: Election brings hope this deer season
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
For almost two decades there has been a cloud over the festivities: chronic wasting disease. And for the last eight years, the government has done nothing to keep it from spreading.
Bruce Murphy: Walker wants to rig high court election
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
That’s what the citizens get for daring to vote against him.
Casey Hoff: Baraboo High School photo cheapens the Holocaust, exposes ignorance
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
The photo of the smiling students from Baraboo High School, in which many of them appear to be giving the Nazi salute, is a prime example of how forgetting the horrors of the past can cheapen the memory of the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust.
Dominique Paul Noth: Will Wisconsin stay sleepy the next 40 days?
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
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.
James Rowen: 11th hour tricks will speed up the Fitzgerald, Walker, Vos final bell
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
GOP leaders in Wisconsin are ready, willing and able to deal themselves an unnecessary and crippling self-inflicted political wound.
James Wigderson & Steve Scaffidi: Baraboo, Foxconn, Kleefisch and Schimel
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson joins Steve Scaffidi on AM 620 WTMJ to discuss the week in politics.
Dave Hansen: Response to Nygren’s comments on the Kimberly-Clark bailout
Tuesday, Nov 20, 2018
Recently Rep. Nygren claimed in a press release that I don’t care about or support the Kimberly-Clark workers in Marinette because I have not committed to voting for AB-963, a bill that would give Kimberly-Clark, a Texas-based corporation up to $100 million or more in taxpayer cash to protect 388 jobs in the Fox Valley. Unfortunately, there are significant concerns with this bill. So significant in fact, that I was told as many as 8 Republican senators are opposed to it.
