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Violent words can bruise and wound. Their damage to our democracy is deep and wide – beyond calculation. Can we learn from the violence in Congress almost 200 years ago? The outcome then was not good.
Enacting automatic voter registration would exacerbate the potential for fraud and ineligible voting while simultaneously infringing on the rights of those who don’t wish to participate.
Study finds Wisconsin has nearly double the national rate and 91% killed with guns.
Parents are free to homeschool their unvaccinated kids.
The mining industry has updated its practices and technology, and our laws have also been updated over time. Act 134 maintained strong environmental standards without preempting local regulations or adding exemptions to environmental standards.
Mining industry representative Nathan Conrad, in his May 15 Cap Times column, repeats the discredited statements and vague promises used to support 2017 Act 134 to push unsafe mining on Wisconsin. Conrad claims the new law maintained environmental protections, when in fact it gutted many protections and public rights for mining proposals.
Not very, the data suggests. Is there any way to change this?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson sat down with the Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens to discuss a wide variety of contemporary political issues in Wisconsin, and to share what he has been doing since his retirement from public office.
Republicans pass on fixing broken school funding system.
Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.
While details remain to be worked out, one thing is clear about whatever transportation package Gov. Tony Evers eventually signs: it won’t be enough.
Attacks on Madison have become commonplace in Scott Walker’s speeches.
Average top exec earned $34.4 million in 2018 — 660 times the average worker’s pay.
Foxconn and Wisconsin happen to be a major example of how a new niche of consultants called “site selectors” pit communities against each other in multi-state bidding wars to maximize tax breaks, grants, land deals and other incentives.
Republican legislative leaders are quietly trading ideas on ways to boost transportation spending without raising the 30.9-cent per gallon gas tax, which hasn’t been increased since 2006.
Rural Wisconsin and its farmers are on the edge. And, Trump’s razzle-dazzle can’t mask the misery and pain.
An English teacher in Kenosha County is concerned that a lawsuit to overturn Act 10 will force her to join a union and restrict her classroom teaching.
As Madison schools consider how best to teach students about healthy relationships and safe sexual activity, the rest of the state should follow suit. Every student in Wisconsin will benefit.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. As a former first grade teacher, I recognize first-hand the importance of providing adequate funding for our education system. Schools
Violent words can bruise and wound. Their damage to our democracy is deep and wide – beyond calculation. Can we learn from the violence in Congress almost 200 years ago? The outcome then was not good.
Enacting automatic voter registration would exacerbate the potential for fraud and ineligible voting while simultaneously infringing on the rights of those who don’t wish to participate.
Study finds Wisconsin has nearly double the national rate and 91% killed with guns.
Parents are free to homeschool their unvaccinated kids.
The mining industry has updated its practices and technology, and our laws have also been updated over time. Act 134 maintained strong environmental standards without preempting local regulations or adding exemptions to environmental standards.
Mining industry representative Nathan Conrad, in his May 15 Cap Times column, repeats the discredited statements and vague promises used to support 2017 Act 134 to push unsafe mining on Wisconsin. Conrad claims the new law maintained environmental protections, when in fact it gutted many protections and public rights for mining proposals.
Not very, the data suggests. Is there any way to change this?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson sat down with the Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens to discuss a wide variety of contemporary political issues in Wisconsin, and to share what he has been doing since his retirement from public office.
Republicans pass on fixing broken school funding system.
Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.
While details remain to be worked out, one thing is clear about whatever transportation package Gov. Tony Evers eventually signs: it won’t be enough.
Attacks on Madison have become commonplace in Scott Walker’s speeches.
Average top exec earned $34.4 million in 2018 — 660 times the average worker’s pay.
Foxconn and Wisconsin happen to be a major example of how a new niche of consultants called “site selectors” pit communities against each other in multi-state bidding wars to maximize tax breaks, grants, land deals and other incentives.
Republican legislative leaders are quietly trading ideas on ways to boost transportation spending without raising the 30.9-cent per gallon gas tax, which hasn’t been increased since 2006.
Rural Wisconsin and its farmers are on the edge. And, Trump’s razzle-dazzle can’t mask the misery and pain.
An English teacher in Kenosha County is concerned that a lawsuit to overturn Act 10 will force her to join a union and restrict her classroom teaching.
As Madison schools consider how best to teach students about healthy relationships and safe sexual activity, the rest of the state should follow suit. Every student in Wisconsin will benefit.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. As a former first grade teacher, I recognize first-hand the importance of providing adequate funding for our education system. Schools