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If a new report by TRIP, the organization estimated last month that deteriorated state roads and bridges are costing Wisconsin motorists a total of $6.8 billion annually.
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If a new report by TRIP, the organization estimated last month that deteriorated state roads and bridges are costing Wisconsin motorists a total of $6.8 billion annually.

Democrats must emphasize bread and butter issues.

Most effective water reclamation in the nation and a global innovator.

The Madison Common Council has targeted Confederate monuments. As October marks the 154th anniversary of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s infamous “march to the sea,” Are there any other uncomfortable reminders of the 19th century the Common Council might want to eradicate?

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up whether Democrats can win any Republican congressional seats in the state this fall. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

It is impossible for me to imagine two more dissimilar humans in Presidents Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump.

What we’re seeing today with the Kavanaugh nomination are the same intimidation schemes those on the left implements whenever their ideas don’t win at the ballot box.

Treatment of principles in Kavanaugh hearings is unconscionable.

Wisconsin can’t afford to have Tony Evers as governor. There appears to be a real disconnect with the reality we can’t pay for all his lofty goals, and we can’t risk the further creep of an ever more controlling government.

In a new TV and printed ad campaign, the Republican Party of Wisconsin has launched a scurrilous attack on State Superintendent Tony Evers.

Madison school district touts graduation rates, but academic proficiency in question.

Over the past seven and a half years Wisconsin has experienced quite the turnaround and the future looks bright.

Her campaign seems to ignore poll data showing most disagree with her stands.
Many rightly lament increasingly polarized judicial races in Wisconsin. But this is inevitable when judges assume a role in public life not consistent with our constitutional order.

For 12 years Wisconsin has been deprived of a people’s lawyer at the top of its justice ladder, lacking a clear defender of open records, civil rights and basic access to justice for everyday people.

Just 12% of all ballots in 2004, could hit 33% in 2020.

After committing more than a billion dollars to widen to six lanes the interstate between Madison and the Illinois line — a distance of more than 45 miles — the state now wants to save about $14 million by keeping the northbound lanes at the interchange at two lanes.

The Kavanaugh nomination proceedings have sent women and survivors of sexual violence a harmful message — that if you’ve been harassed or assaulted, your pain doesn’t matter if it gets in the way of a man’s goals.

Charter schools excel and the racial and economic achievement gap remains.

Wigderson and Scaffidi discuss the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and whether Gov. Scott Walker is really behind in the guv’s race.

If a new report by TRIP, the organization estimated last month that deteriorated state roads and bridges are costing Wisconsin motorists a total of $6.8 billion annually.

Democrats must emphasize bread and butter issues.

Most effective water reclamation in the nation and a global innovator.

The Madison Common Council has targeted Confederate monuments. As October marks the 154th anniversary of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s infamous “march to the sea,” Are there any other uncomfortable reminders of the 19th century the Common Council might want to eradicate?

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take up whether Democrats can win any Republican congressional seats in the state this fall. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

It is impossible for me to imagine two more dissimilar humans in Presidents Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump.

What we’re seeing today with the Kavanaugh nomination are the same intimidation schemes those on the left implements whenever their ideas don’t win at the ballot box.

Treatment of principles in Kavanaugh hearings is unconscionable.

Wisconsin can’t afford to have Tony Evers as governor. There appears to be a real disconnect with the reality we can’t pay for all his lofty goals, and we can’t risk the further creep of an ever more controlling government.

In a new TV and printed ad campaign, the Republican Party of Wisconsin has launched a scurrilous attack on State Superintendent Tony Evers.

Madison school district touts graduation rates, but academic proficiency in question.

Over the past seven and a half years Wisconsin has experienced quite the turnaround and the future looks bright.

Her campaign seems to ignore poll data showing most disagree with her stands.
Many rightly lament increasingly polarized judicial races in Wisconsin. But this is inevitable when judges assume a role in public life not consistent with our constitutional order.

For 12 years Wisconsin has been deprived of a people’s lawyer at the top of its justice ladder, lacking a clear defender of open records, civil rights and basic access to justice for everyday people.

Just 12% of all ballots in 2004, could hit 33% in 2020.

After committing more than a billion dollars to widen to six lanes the interstate between Madison and the Illinois line — a distance of more than 45 miles — the state now wants to save about $14 million by keeping the northbound lanes at the interchange at two lanes.

The Kavanaugh nomination proceedings have sent women and survivors of sexual violence a harmful message — that if you’ve been harassed or assaulted, your pain doesn’t matter if it gets in the way of a man’s goals.

Charter schools excel and the racial and economic achievement gap remains.

Wigderson and Scaffidi discuss the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and whether Gov. Scott Walker is really behind in the guv’s race.