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Chris Taylor and Jon Erpenbach: New day, new opportunity to show leadership for the seriously ill in Wisconsin

It is our hope that the personal biases and excuses that have driven bills to legalize medical marijuana into the ground for the last decade can experience the swell of support we know exists for medical marijuana as a treatment option for patients when their physicians approve. It is our hope that, this time, common sense and human dignity will win.

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James Wigderson: Conversation with Rep. Joel Kleefisch

Rep. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, joins James Wigderson on RightWisconsin Conversations to talk about the likelihood of getting Heal Without Harm passed and what the state can do to combat human trafficking. They also talk about Kleefisch’s passion for hunting, how he got into politics, and going into enemy territory with a new radio program on liberal talk radio.

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Steve White: Small businesses getting HIT

Ryan and other conservative leaders may have no choice but to address the Affordable Care Act’s many failures in bite-sized pieces. A key provision to sink their teeth into is the health insurance tax, often called the “HIT.”

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Mitch Henck: Is Russia probe Watergate II?

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on charges against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Manafort’s business associate, Rick Gates.

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Christian Schneider: Republicans who wave the white flag enable Trump

If politics is indeed a war, conservatives have suddenly become the peace-loving flower children of the new generation. Rather than stand and fight against the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump’s corrosive forces, stalwart conservatives are dropping their weapons and high-tailing it from the battlefield.

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Bill Kaplan: Enough, this is not America

The GOP tax cuts are not paid for and will add at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt. Worse, all the GOP proposed individual tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) and corporations add up to about $5.5 trillion. The tax cuts will make America a plutocracy.

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James Rowen: Walker figures out new way to serve business, weaken WI DNR

He’s moving to shift from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources the oversight of controversial, large-scale, water-demanding and manure-producing animal feeding and breeding operations to the more industry-focused Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection, (DATCP), where all sorts of ag and dairy promotion and marketing is centered.

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Dave Zweifel: Ed Durkin was truly one of the good guys

Those who were here during the 1960s and well into the ’90s remember Durkin as the fireball unionist who got Madison’s firefighters a more sensible workweek and decent wages and then as the fire chief who tore down barriers and conquered prejudices by hiring women and minorities to make our department one of the most diverse fire departments in America.

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Chris Taylor and Jon Erpenbach: New day, new opportunity to show leadership for the seriously ill in Wisconsin

It is our hope that the personal biases and excuses that have driven bills to legalize medical marijuana into the ground for the last decade can experience the swell of support we know exists for medical marijuana as a treatment option for patients when their physicians approve. It is our hope that, this time, common sense and human dignity will win.

Read More »

James Wigderson: Conversation with Rep. Joel Kleefisch

Rep. Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, joins James Wigderson on RightWisconsin Conversations to talk about the likelihood of getting Heal Without Harm passed and what the state can do to combat human trafficking. They also talk about Kleefisch’s passion for hunting, how he got into politics, and going into enemy territory with a new radio program on liberal talk radio.

Read More »

Steve White: Small businesses getting HIT

Ryan and other conservative leaders may have no choice but to address the Affordable Care Act’s many failures in bite-sized pieces. A key provision to sink their teeth into is the health insurance tax, often called the “HIT.”

Read More »

Mitch Henck: Is Russia probe Watergate II?

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on charges against Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Manafort’s business associate, Rick Gates.

Read More »

Christian Schneider: Republicans who wave the white flag enable Trump

If politics is indeed a war, conservatives have suddenly become the peace-loving flower children of the new generation. Rather than stand and fight against the hostile takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump’s corrosive forces, stalwart conservatives are dropping their weapons and high-tailing it from the battlefield.

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: Enough, this is not America

The GOP tax cuts are not paid for and will add at least $1.5 trillion to the national debt. Worse, all the GOP proposed individual tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) and corporations add up to about $5.5 trillion. The tax cuts will make America a plutocracy.

Read More »

James Rowen: Walker figures out new way to serve business, weaken WI DNR

He’s moving to shift from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources the oversight of controversial, large-scale, water-demanding and manure-producing animal feeding and breeding operations to the more industry-focused Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection, (DATCP), where all sorts of ag and dairy promotion and marketing is centered.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Ed Durkin was truly one of the good guys

Those who were here during the 1960s and well into the ’90s remember Durkin as the fireball unionist who got Madison’s firefighters a more sensible workweek and decent wages and then as the fire chief who tore down barriers and conquered prejudices by hiring women and minorities to make our department one of the most diverse fire departments in America.

Read More »

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