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In the last two years, the federal government has passed two major pieces of legislation to combat this crisis. In 2016, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Earlier this year, we allocated nearly $4 billion toward opioid abuse prevention and treatment as part of a broader government funding package.
Among the hardest hit have been the state’s public school teachers. Not only were they required to pick up a significant portion of their health insurance and pension costs, Act 10 also significantly hamstrung local school districts from raising some revenue on their own even as the state cut $750 million from public education while enacting tax breaks for many of the state’s big businesses.
When deciding on a political strategy, candidates should revert back to first principles. Target metaphors do not cause violence. Being indecent is bad for our culture. Celebrities don’t have magical powers. Have some discipline and reject the bogus tricks you once mocked.
The way Wisconsin pays for schools is unfair, inequitable and antiquated.
Just as Candidate Trump used vulgarity, insults, and half-cooked media stunts to differentiate himself from his primary opponents two years ago, so, too, are Gov. Scott Walker’s Democratic challengers in 2018.
With friends like Donald Trump, the Wisconsin economy needs no enemies.
Essential to the art of the deal is to say “no deal.”
Citizen groups, dedicated volunteers and committed public interest lawyers will continue to fight the very government we all fund through our taxes until more environmentally-respectful politicians are voted in and the corporate valets are voted out.
Although Milwaukee County’s fair housing law makes it illegal to refuse to rent to someone because of race, sex, disability and other protected categories, it is still legal in Milwaukee County and in most of Wisconsin to refuse to rent to someone who holds a Section 8 voucher.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze how Donald Trump will help and hurt the GOP this election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Historian Jon Meacham seeks to reassure us that we have come through dark times before, but maybe we never were the country we’d like to believe we are.
Using rigorous methods to create comparable samples of students, the study’s authors found that students in Catholic schools were more likely to exhibit self-disciplined behavior.
Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover?
Opposition to abortion is one thing, but to put women’s lives in peril to achieve that ideological goal over a perfectly legal medical procedure is nothing short of outrageous.
The recent high court ruling on class-action lawsuits makes organizing more urgent.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. This past session, we had an opportunity to finally pass legislation that would close a corporate tax loophole that would simultaneously
Are Republican states the most socialistic?
Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Action joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss the Family Prosperity Index.
When will Wisconsin GOP leaders step up and accept their share of the blame for the crisis Walker just discovered?
In May, Trump’s dark-side gift to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, penned a major decision that should galvanize the American public to change Congress in 2018 in favor of the Democrats.
In the last two years, the federal government has passed two major pieces of legislation to combat this crisis. In 2016, Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Earlier this year, we allocated nearly $4 billion toward opioid abuse prevention and treatment as part of a broader government funding package.
Among the hardest hit have been the state’s public school teachers. Not only were they required to pick up a significant portion of their health insurance and pension costs, Act 10 also significantly hamstrung local school districts from raising some revenue on their own even as the state cut $750 million from public education while enacting tax breaks for many of the state’s big businesses.
When deciding on a political strategy, candidates should revert back to first principles. Target metaphors do not cause violence. Being indecent is bad for our culture. Celebrities don’t have magical powers. Have some discipline and reject the bogus tricks you once mocked.
The way Wisconsin pays for schools is unfair, inequitable and antiquated.
Just as Candidate Trump used vulgarity, insults, and half-cooked media stunts to differentiate himself from his primary opponents two years ago, so, too, are Gov. Scott Walker’s Democratic challengers in 2018.
With friends like Donald Trump, the Wisconsin economy needs no enemies.
Essential to the art of the deal is to say “no deal.”
Citizen groups, dedicated volunteers and committed public interest lawyers will continue to fight the very government we all fund through our taxes until more environmentally-respectful politicians are voted in and the corporate valets are voted out.
Although Milwaukee County’s fair housing law makes it illegal to refuse to rent to someone because of race, sex, disability and other protected categories, it is still legal in Milwaukee County and in most of Wisconsin to refuse to rent to someone who holds a Section 8 voucher.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze how Donald Trump will help and hurt the GOP this election year. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Historian Jon Meacham seeks to reassure us that we have come through dark times before, but maybe we never were the country we’d like to believe we are.
Using rigorous methods to create comparable samples of students, the study’s authors found that students in Catholic schools were more likely to exhibit self-disciplined behavior.
Do Wisconsin Democrats want to remind voters of the 2011 Capitol takeover?
Opposition to abortion is one thing, but to put women’s lives in peril to achieve that ideological goal over a perfectly legal medical procedure is nothing short of outrageous.
The recent high court ruling on class-action lawsuits makes organizing more urgent.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. This past session, we had an opportunity to finally pass legislation that would close a corporate tax loophole that would simultaneously
Are Republican states the most socialistic?
Julaine Appling of Wisconsin Family Action joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss the Family Prosperity Index.
When will Wisconsin GOP leaders step up and accept their share of the blame for the crisis Walker just discovered?
In May, Trump’s dark-side gift to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, penned a major decision that should galvanize the American public to change Congress in 2018 in favor of the Democrats.
