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As parties flip-flop on free trade, can Wisconsin’s export economy be protected?

Baldwin’s only consistent philosophy on trade appears to be whatever helps her earn the votes of Trump voters in northern Wisconsin. Her flirtation with Trump’s damaging protectionism invokes the same jingoistic, primitive impulses Democrats now accuse Republicans of fomenting.

In Wisconsin, we spend more taxpayer money to lock people up than we do to educate them at universities. That should be a problem worth addressing for any politician.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. When politicians suddenly discover political positions and beliefs they never held before, we tend to be skeptical. Is their Damascene conversion

To polluted water, clear-cut land, dirty air, add diseased wildlife to Gov. Scott Walker’s environmentally-ruinous tenure.

On Tuesday, Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post released an “analysis” that purports to show the harm that Governor Scott Walker has caused to public schools throughout his tenure as governor. The claims made by Straus vary in their legitimacy, but some are so far afield from what serious research has found that they need to be soundly refuted

In “Two Minutes with Mitch,” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on data showing higher health care costs for teachers after Wisconsin’s Act 10 changes.

Tony Evers is on my top list along with one of the youngest candidates in the race, Kelda Roys.

More than 800 waterways have been added to the list of lakes and streams that exceed phosphorus and other pollutant limits since Scott Walker became governor.

RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson sits down with Bryan Steil, a Republican candidate for the 1st Congressional District.

The U.S. Supreme Court in May affirmed employers’ rights to restrict workers from filing class-action lawsuits against them, which could open the doors for more large companies to adopt such policies.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan is right. The immigration agency is irrevocably broken.

His stand on Trump appointing justice to Supreme Court reverses his view on Obama’s pick.

On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes leads a discussion on the Supreme Court vacancy.

Latest admission by company gives the game away.

The Foxconn deal has always felt like a scheme to help secure the re-election of a governor who has repeatedly stumbled when it comes to job creation — not a serious proposal for the state’s future.

If he’s done nothing else since becoming president, Trump has made it clear he likes dictators.

Blaska shares his take on a New Yok Times article headlined, “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment.”
Harley-Davidson announced plans to shift some production overseas in response to retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on foreign products such as aluminum and steel.

Dane County Exec. Joe Parisi is right. The state and federal governments have got to stop using climate change as some kind of political punching bag, admit it’s for real and start addressing ways to combat it.

As parties flip-flop on free trade, can Wisconsin’s export economy be protected?

Baldwin’s only consistent philosophy on trade appears to be whatever helps her earn the votes of Trump voters in northern Wisconsin. Her flirtation with Trump’s damaging protectionism invokes the same jingoistic, primitive impulses Democrats now accuse Republicans of fomenting.

In Wisconsin, we spend more taxpayer money to lock people up than we do to educate them at universities. That should be a problem worth addressing for any politician.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. When politicians suddenly discover political positions and beliefs they never held before, we tend to be skeptical. Is their Damascene conversion

To polluted water, clear-cut land, dirty air, add diseased wildlife to Gov. Scott Walker’s environmentally-ruinous tenure.

On Tuesday, Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post released an “analysis” that purports to show the harm that Governor Scott Walker has caused to public schools throughout his tenure as governor. The claims made by Straus vary in their legitimacy, but some are so far afield from what serious research has found that they need to be soundly refuted

In “Two Minutes with Mitch,” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on data showing higher health care costs for teachers after Wisconsin’s Act 10 changes.

Tony Evers is on my top list along with one of the youngest candidates in the race, Kelda Roys.

More than 800 waterways have been added to the list of lakes and streams that exceed phosphorus and other pollutant limits since Scott Walker became governor.

RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson sits down with Bryan Steil, a Republican candidate for the 1st Congressional District.

The U.S. Supreme Court in May affirmed employers’ rights to restrict workers from filing class-action lawsuits against them, which could open the doors for more large companies to adopt such policies.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan is right. The immigration agency is irrevocably broken.

His stand on Trump appointing justice to Supreme Court reverses his view on Obama’s pick.

On the Daily Standard Podcast, host Charlie Sykes leads a discussion on the Supreme Court vacancy.

Latest admission by company gives the game away.

The Foxconn deal has always felt like a scheme to help secure the re-election of a governor who has repeatedly stumbled when it comes to job creation — not a serious proposal for the state’s future.

If he’s done nothing else since becoming president, Trump has made it clear he likes dictators.

Blaska shares his take on a New Yok Times article headlined, “How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment.”
Harley-Davidson announced plans to shift some production overseas in response to retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after the Trump administration imposed tariffs on foreign products such as aluminum and steel.

Dane County Exec. Joe Parisi is right. The state and federal governments have got to stop using climate change as some kind of political punching bag, admit it’s for real and start addressing ways to combat it.