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The Trump Administration’s drug pricing plan is bad for America and especially bad for leading biohealth states like Wisconsin, and it should be rejected out of hand.
While grassroots Democrats did their part by showing up to caucus in more than 1,600 precincts across the state, aligning and realigning, counting and recounting, and at least trying to call in results, the state party screwed up. Horribly.
As their phony impeachment trial against President Trump imploded, the party’s Iowa caucus went up in flames, and then news broke of a “toxic” environment within the host committee for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interview both Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Rebecca Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.
Politicians like Assembly Speaker Robin Vos make enough in salary, per diems and benefits to spend countless hours in Madison, hire bloated staffs whose members earn healthy paychecks, and have plenty of time for partisan mischief-making.
Gov. Tony Evers has already promised to sign the legislation if it makes it to this desk. Legislative leadership should make it a priority, and lawmakers should support the effort to pass it.
$47 million net fund balance includes $16 million in investments. City officials demand they pay full cost of police services.
Instead of empty appeals to unity, a useful debate would explore the question that is most important to most Democrats: who is best prepared to attract the support that’s needed to build a winning coalition against Trump?
Most Democrats understand that if Trump can’t draw Biden as his opponent he’d love to face Sanders.
We can look back and reminisce about what once was on our farms and in our rural communities. Or, we can look ahead, join cooperatively, and build a better tomorrow. Our forefathers did it. We can, too.
Public health services provided by Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services are considered among the best in the nation, but the whole system is impacted when a key actor like CDC is hit by cuts.
My life in Madison, as a transplanted Wisconsinite, has been immeasurably enriched by the African Americans who were the first families to settle here.
Despite this honorable farming heritage, Wisconsin has been losing dairy farms at an alarming rate — roughly two farms a day — and our state leads the nation in farm bankruptcies. We cannot abandon those generations of families that have dedicated their lives to feeding our families and communities.
Wisconsin depends on our farmers, so this crisis is not their burden to carry alone.
A new bill would extend bar hours for the week of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee while crushing the emerging wedding barn industry.
$13 billion in tax relief since 2011 has resulted in eight straight years of a falling tax burden and increased tax collections.
Trump is running for reelection on an economy with flashing warning signs.
Democrats may have to pick someone who possesses something called “electability.”
Shalala made numerous positive changes during her years at the UW, putting a new emphasis on undergraduate study and expanding the university’s national clout, helping the school draw tens of millions in research grants. What many UW alumni remember her for is her insistence that a strong academic university could be just as strong in sports as well.
The Trump Administration’s drug pricing plan is bad for America and especially bad for leading biohealth states like Wisconsin, and it should be rejected out of hand.
While grassroots Democrats did their part by showing up to caucus in more than 1,600 precincts across the state, aligning and realigning, counting and recounting, and at least trying to call in results, the state party screwed up. Horribly.
As their phony impeachment trial against President Trump imploded, the party’s Iowa caucus went up in flames, and then news broke of a “toxic” environment within the host committee for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
The Thompson Center’s Ryan Owens interview both Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Rebecca Bradley and Rebecca Dallet.
Politicians like Assembly Speaker Robin Vos make enough in salary, per diems and benefits to spend countless hours in Madison, hire bloated staffs whose members earn healthy paychecks, and have plenty of time for partisan mischief-making.
Gov. Tony Evers has already promised to sign the legislation if it makes it to this desk. Legislative leadership should make it a priority, and lawmakers should support the effort to pass it.
$47 million net fund balance includes $16 million in investments. City officials demand they pay full cost of police services.
Instead of empty appeals to unity, a useful debate would explore the question that is most important to most Democrats: who is best prepared to attract the support that’s needed to build a winning coalition against Trump?
Most Democrats understand that if Trump can’t draw Biden as his opponent he’d love to face Sanders.
We can look back and reminisce about what once was on our farms and in our rural communities. Or, we can look ahead, join cooperatively, and build a better tomorrow. Our forefathers did it. We can, too.
Public health services provided by Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services are considered among the best in the nation, but the whole system is impacted when a key actor like CDC is hit by cuts.
My life in Madison, as a transplanted Wisconsinite, has been immeasurably enriched by the African Americans who were the first families to settle here.
Despite this honorable farming heritage, Wisconsin has been losing dairy farms at an alarming rate — roughly two farms a day — and our state leads the nation in farm bankruptcies. We cannot abandon those generations of families that have dedicated their lives to feeding our families and communities.
Wisconsin depends on our farmers, so this crisis is not their burden to carry alone.
A new bill would extend bar hours for the week of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee while crushing the emerging wedding barn industry.
$13 billion in tax relief since 2011 has resulted in eight straight years of a falling tax burden and increased tax collections.
Trump is running for reelection on an economy with flashing warning signs.
Democrats may have to pick someone who possesses something called “electability.”
Shalala made numerous positive changes during her years at the UW, putting a new emphasis on undergraduate study and expanding the university’s national clout, helping the school draw tens of millions in research grants. What many UW alumni remember her for is her insistence that a strong academic university could be just as strong in sports as well.
