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In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on Wednesday’s planned Madison student walkout to protest gun violence.
The Wisconsin Idea reminds us that, with collaboration and innovation, we have the ability to change the world by matching academic interest with a real need.
No Labels is calling for future speakers to win at least 60% of the votes in the 435-member House, not just a simple 50% majority as current rules require. This would force a speaker nominee to gain at least some support from the minority party and would bring about a pivotal change in House practices.
President Trump ignition of trade wars will do no favors for Wisconsin, a state that helped to carry him to the White House.
Gov. Scott Walker’s antics make many voters cynical about politicians.
We’ve been watching a fine-tuned career politician at work the past several months.
We must collectively decide that taxes are how we support ourselves and our neighbors. So Governor Walker, save your sales tax holidays and paltry handouts. We need planners, not panderers, at the helm.
Every day, 20 veterans take their own life. I almost became one of them because the Tomah VA Hospital let me down. But I’m not a special case. The hospital failed so many of my fellow veterans.
Anglers, hunters, trappers, wildlife watchers, hikers and other pedestrians who bisect the tracks at unofficial crossings are subject to a trespassing ticket and fine.
For too long, we’ve been putting a bandage over the gaping wound of outdated pricing systems that are not sustainable and that are no longer serving our farm families. That’s why next week Wisconsin Farmers Union will be bringing farmers together to work toward change.
Strategic return of money to the taxpayers or panicked response to a Democratic surge? The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate GOP spending items this election year.
Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
On tariffs, Republicans like Ryan and others apparently know better than to aggressively criticize Trump so as not to offend his base within the GOP that seems perpetually angry.
At first blush, the president’s proposal may sound enticing and even patriotic — an “America First” policy designed to punish foreign exporters and benefit U.S. industries. But in fact, the opposite is true. Tariffs aren’t really taxes on imports — they are taxes on American families and American businesses.
Several union leaders I spoke with worry these are tariffs from a “president who wants to protect the industry, not the worker.”
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.
RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson talks with Michael Jahr of the Badger Institute about the new Center for Opportunity, which will focus on public policy issues related to criminal justice reform and occupational licensing.
Legislation based on fleeting headlines is almost always a bad idea. Instead, we should offer politicians a new challenge: Post a video of yourselves resisting the temptation to grandstand.
The DNR has a credibility problem, having been stripped of authenticity and respectability by a Governor who intentionally installed across top management positions a ‘chamber of commerce mentality.’
Evidence shows he had Milwaukee cops digging for dirt on MaryNell Regan. Why?
Walker thought Foxconn would be a home run for his reelection prospects when it was announced last summer. But it turns out that voters are more than a little skeptical of the $3 billion state taxpayer giveaway and the free pass on environmental regulations.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on Wednesday’s planned Madison student walkout to protest gun violence.
The Wisconsin Idea reminds us that, with collaboration and innovation, we have the ability to change the world by matching academic interest with a real need.
No Labels is calling for future speakers to win at least 60% of the votes in the 435-member House, not just a simple 50% majority as current rules require. This would force a speaker nominee to gain at least some support from the minority party and would bring about a pivotal change in House practices.
President Trump ignition of trade wars will do no favors for Wisconsin, a state that helped to carry him to the White House.
Gov. Scott Walker’s antics make many voters cynical about politicians.
We’ve been watching a fine-tuned career politician at work the past several months.
We must collectively decide that taxes are how we support ourselves and our neighbors. So Governor Walker, save your sales tax holidays and paltry handouts. We need planners, not panderers, at the helm.
Every day, 20 veterans take their own life. I almost became one of them because the Tomah VA Hospital let me down. But I’m not a special case. The hospital failed so many of my fellow veterans.
Anglers, hunters, trappers, wildlife watchers, hikers and other pedestrians who bisect the tracks at unofficial crossings are subject to a trespassing ticket and fine.
For too long, we’ve been putting a bandage over the gaping wound of outdated pricing systems that are not sustainable and that are no longer serving our farm families. That’s why next week Wisconsin Farmers Union will be bringing farmers together to work toward change.
Strategic return of money to the taxpayers or panicked response to a Democratic surge? The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, debate GOP spending items this election year.
Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
On tariffs, Republicans like Ryan and others apparently know better than to aggressively criticize Trump so as not to offend his base within the GOP that seems perpetually angry.
At first blush, the president’s proposal may sound enticing and even patriotic — an “America First” policy designed to punish foreign exporters and benefit U.S. industries. But in fact, the opposite is true. Tariffs aren’t really taxes on imports — they are taxes on American families and American businesses.
Several union leaders I spoke with worry these are tariffs from a “president who wants to protect the industry, not the worker.”
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council could not have picked a worse recipient for its political openness award than Scott Walker.
RightWisconsin’s James Wigderson talks with Michael Jahr of the Badger Institute about the new Center for Opportunity, which will focus on public policy issues related to criminal justice reform and occupational licensing.
Legislation based on fleeting headlines is almost always a bad idea. Instead, we should offer politicians a new challenge: Post a video of yourselves resisting the temptation to grandstand.
The DNR has a credibility problem, having been stripped of authenticity and respectability by a Governor who intentionally installed across top management positions a ‘chamber of commerce mentality.’
Evidence shows he had Milwaukee cops digging for dirt on MaryNell Regan. Why?
Walker thought Foxconn would be a home run for his reelection prospects when it was announced last summer. But it turns out that voters are more than a little skeptical of the $3 billion state taxpayer giveaway and the free pass on environmental regulations.