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To be fair, Republicans and Democrats alike, have benefited from partisan gerrymandering. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering has opened the door to more shenanigans from legislators seeking to retain control.
The times clearly call for some adjustments, some reckonings that go beyond the slow walk the electorate usually uses to correct itself. But these are not the adjustments we are getting.
Top down approaches from the federal government must end and more flexibility for states on important issues like school discipline must be encouraged.
Program created by President Reagan provides funds to hospitals to offset costs for providing care to the uninsured.
Inclusion is not frivolous special treatment for which we should have to beg. Inclusion is the minimum a decent society owes us.
One of the most tiresome and predictable refrains in the wake of a national tragedy is a call to “do something.” Generally speaking, this nebulous “something” is never clearly defined but nonetheless failure to do it is perceived as unacceptable.
The value of today’s rapid-fire presidential debates is doubtful.
Sadly, Johnson has marched lock-step with his fellow Republicans in providing whatever cover they can for a president who not only knows no decency, but has surrounded himself with what many historians are calling the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history.
There are plans to expand Truax Air Force Base so that F-35 fighter jets, designed to carry two nuclear bombs each, can be stationed here.
Tent City residents need resources not currently available to them, not destruction of their camp.
Cognitive Dissedence writer Jeff Simpson has passed away after a battle with a rare form of cancer.
Seeking solutions for chronic wasting disease in southwest Wisconsin.
I believe the most compelling reason to support the F-35 jets has to do with our duty as Americans to the larger world.
Stopping the spread of drugs, be it in Northern Wisconsin or statewide, is not a simple task. No one policy will help curb abuse. But with this budget, our criminal justice system is better equipped to make a difference in people’s lives and that’s a good thing that you might not have read about or heard on the local news.
The Texas Legislature created an adult alert to cover people between the ages of 18 and 65.
Make no mistake: the Trump-GOP lawsuit is a ticking time bomb.
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical.
The use of legalized government murder has been off the table — with a few exceptions — for more than a decade. The feds stopped using it in 2003 and several states, even those who have the death penalty, have declared moratoriums on its use.
I don’t have words of encouragement or hope, only desperation and heartache and fear, only pleading for some small action to change something, because this is the way it is. But this isn’t the way it has to be.
Opportunities still exist in the trades.
To be fair, Republicans and Democrats alike, have benefited from partisan gerrymandering. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that federal judges have no power to police partisan gerrymandering has opened the door to more shenanigans from legislators seeking to retain control.
The times clearly call for some adjustments, some reckonings that go beyond the slow walk the electorate usually uses to correct itself. But these are not the adjustments we are getting.
Top down approaches from the federal government must end and more flexibility for states on important issues like school discipline must be encouraged.
Program created by President Reagan provides funds to hospitals to offset costs for providing care to the uninsured.
Inclusion is not frivolous special treatment for which we should have to beg. Inclusion is the minimum a decent society owes us.
One of the most tiresome and predictable refrains in the wake of a national tragedy is a call to “do something.” Generally speaking, this nebulous “something” is never clearly defined but nonetheless failure to do it is perceived as unacceptable.
The value of today’s rapid-fire presidential debates is doubtful.
Sadly, Johnson has marched lock-step with his fellow Republicans in providing whatever cover they can for a president who not only knows no decency, but has surrounded himself with what many historians are calling the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history.
There are plans to expand Truax Air Force Base so that F-35 fighter jets, designed to carry two nuclear bombs each, can be stationed here.
Tent City residents need resources not currently available to them, not destruction of their camp.
Cognitive Dissedence writer Jeff Simpson has passed away after a battle with a rare form of cancer.
Seeking solutions for chronic wasting disease in southwest Wisconsin.
I believe the most compelling reason to support the F-35 jets has to do with our duty as Americans to the larger world.
Stopping the spread of drugs, be it in Northern Wisconsin or statewide, is not a simple task. No one policy will help curb abuse. But with this budget, our criminal justice system is better equipped to make a difference in people’s lives and that’s a good thing that you might not have read about or heard on the local news.
The Texas Legislature created an adult alert to cover people between the ages of 18 and 65.
Make no mistake: the Trump-GOP lawsuit is a ticking time bomb.
Outside of UW-Madison, the argument that the colleges have huge multiplier effect on communities and the state is nonsensical.
The use of legalized government murder has been off the table — with a few exceptions — for more than a decade. The feds stopped using it in 2003 and several states, even those who have the death penalty, have declared moratoriums on its use.
I don’t have words of encouragement or hope, only desperation and heartache and fear, only pleading for some small action to change something, because this is the way it is. But this isn’t the way it has to be.
Opportunities still exist in the trades.
