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MPS was contacted by at least two interested buyers for Hayes in 2012 and 2013, but the building has sat empty for the last several years.
Trump is so obsessed with promoting fossil fuels regardless of their contributions to long-term climate change that he’s now decided to make wind power, the renewable energy powering more and more homes every year, a villain of major proportions.
Tech jobs, whether they are found inside tech-based companies or in other business sectors, are vital to state and regional economies. Wisconsin is no exception to what is becoming a national rule.
After years of deferring vital maintenance and safety upgrades, Gov. Tony Evers prioritized our state infrastructure to improve our public buildings while creating jobs and boosting local economies statewide.
Rhodes-Conway won by a resounding 62 percent to 38 percent, marking a change that is both generational and transformational.
RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson looks at the winners and losers in Tuesday’s election beyond the candidates.
To the surprise of some, conservatives flipped the seat they wanted to capture for decades. They once again own a 5-2 majority on the Court.
Anger drives votes, media in decline, traditional judicial campaigns are dead, and more.
Judge Brian Hagedorn should have been a dream opponent for progressives in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. But thanks to some lucky breaks, late spending and an uninspiring opponent, Hagedorn eked out a victory.
This election was a lay-up and only the WisDems could figure out a way to muff it in grand fashion.
Eric Genrich, a member of the Assembly from 2013 to 2019, was elected as the new mayor of Green Bay. His win is a big deal politically, as it represented a shift in direction for the state’s third-largest city — and another sign that progressive ideas are gaining traction in cities well beyond Madison and Milwaukee.
Scaremongering over socialism is silly and dishonest. Those who dwell in that dishonesty are on the wrong side of history.
In both Madison and Chicago gay candidates for mayor won office.
To make the claim that school choice is undermining public school spending is one of the biggest fallacies regularly repeated by choice opponents.
Compressed gravel base can’t support LCD fabrication plant. So what’s being built?
In late March a group of visiting young Russian journalists who cover the parliament in Moscow visited Washington, D.C., and Madison, meeting a variety of academic, political, and media figures. They were asked to share their impressions.
For the past seven years, our Communication and Civic Renewal research group has been studying contentious politics in Wisconsin. We are particularly interested in how the state’s communication ecology interacts with political, economic and social contexts to affect how people engage in politics.
Vote by party lines on governor’s capital budget breaks with bipartisan tradition.
Seemingly every action in Gov. Tony Evers’ first three months has been marked by incompetence, rank partisanship, childishness, or all three — and he doesn’t seem to be improving.
Democrat Tony Evers has been governor for almost three months. If they were the first innings of a baseball game, the score might be 3-3 between Evers and Republicans who control the Legislature.
MPS was contacted by at least two interested buyers for Hayes in 2012 and 2013, but the building has sat empty for the last several years.
Trump is so obsessed with promoting fossil fuels regardless of their contributions to long-term climate change that he’s now decided to make wind power, the renewable energy powering more and more homes every year, a villain of major proportions.
Tech jobs, whether they are found inside tech-based companies or in other business sectors, are vital to state and regional economies. Wisconsin is no exception to what is becoming a national rule.
After years of deferring vital maintenance and safety upgrades, Gov. Tony Evers prioritized our state infrastructure to improve our public buildings while creating jobs and boosting local economies statewide.
Rhodes-Conway won by a resounding 62 percent to 38 percent, marking a change that is both generational and transformational.
RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson looks at the winners and losers in Tuesday’s election beyond the candidates.
To the surprise of some, conservatives flipped the seat they wanted to capture for decades. They once again own a 5-2 majority on the Court.
Anger drives votes, media in decline, traditional judicial campaigns are dead, and more.
Judge Brian Hagedorn should have been a dream opponent for progressives in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. But thanks to some lucky breaks, late spending and an uninspiring opponent, Hagedorn eked out a victory.
This election was a lay-up and only the WisDems could figure out a way to muff it in grand fashion.
Eric Genrich, a member of the Assembly from 2013 to 2019, was elected as the new mayor of Green Bay. His win is a big deal politically, as it represented a shift in direction for the state’s third-largest city — and another sign that progressive ideas are gaining traction in cities well beyond Madison and Milwaukee.
Scaremongering over socialism is silly and dishonest. Those who dwell in that dishonesty are on the wrong side of history.
In both Madison and Chicago gay candidates for mayor won office.
To make the claim that school choice is undermining public school spending is one of the biggest fallacies regularly repeated by choice opponents.
Compressed gravel base can’t support LCD fabrication plant. So what’s being built?
In late March a group of visiting young Russian journalists who cover the parliament in Moscow visited Washington, D.C., and Madison, meeting a variety of academic, political, and media figures. They were asked to share their impressions.
For the past seven years, our Communication and Civic Renewal research group has been studying contentious politics in Wisconsin. We are particularly interested in how the state’s communication ecology interacts with political, economic and social contexts to affect how people engage in politics.
Vote by party lines on governor’s capital budget breaks with bipartisan tradition.
Seemingly every action in Gov. Tony Evers’ first three months has been marked by incompetence, rank partisanship, childishness, or all three — and he doesn’t seem to be improving.
Democrat Tony Evers has been governor for almost three months. If they were the first innings of a baseball game, the score might be 3-3 between Evers and Republicans who control the Legislature.
