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Last week it was the DNR’s rushed approvals for four air pollution permits to allow Foxconn to emit annually 796 tons of eye-watering, land-and-water contaminating smog and other airborne pollutants. Today it’s the US EPA approval at Walker’s request to exempt much of SE Wisconsin from clean air standards that will apply to much of the state and country.
Black/white homeownership gap is a dismal 40.7%. It’s even worse in 8 other cities.
Vice President Mike Pence was in Wisconsin last week, raising money for Scott Walker and peddling snake oil about the new Republican tax law, which is on track to add $1.9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Funding mechanism has become a gravy train for developers and distorts the free market, critics say.
Contributions to the Wisconsin Idea across generations.
There is more evidence that Wisconsin’s obligation to protect the natural world needs a strong, principled revival.
AG condemns award for rehabilitated lawyer and State Bar caves in to Schimel’s complaint.
In the 9th circuit, animals are free to bring lawsuits.
The speaker was scrambling last Friday to create the impression that he forced Conroy out not for reasons of politics but because members felt their “pastoral needs” were not being met.
Seven men who run Ascension Health and make $40 million want to save money by slashing services at hospital.
The UW System wasn’t created to solely train our workforce, but to “serve and stimulate society” and “extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campus.”
It is exceedingly difficult to label as racists the nearly 20 million white blue-collar workers who switched to vote for the first candidate who pretended to care about them. For they previously voted not just once, but twice, for Barack Obama.
GOP Senator Ron Johnson voted as a rubber stamp, approving all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin acted to carefully vet Trump’s nominees, often when it was clear that the White House had not done so.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. “Being able to shadow officers during their daily meetings and tasks helped me better understand how an embassy functions. I was
A bill described by opponents as an assault on free speech, democracy, and on our constitutionally protected rights passed the Legislature, barring the state from contracting with companies that participate in an economic boycott of a repressive, apartheid government, Israel.
The Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, reflect on a rarity in politics — agreement in the Legislature on a big issue in an election year: juvenile justice reform. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
There is tension between a news organization’s desire for a high volume of stories against the need to invest much more time and energy in fewer high-value ones. Finding new business models to support this high-quality journalism is essential, and success stories have been few so far.
Gerrymandering denies us the most fundamental right that Americans have spent centuries fighting and dying for, and it’s time for this undemocratic practice to become a relic of the past.
Walker’s family-friendly tax cuts will fail to buy votes.
With a stubborn refusal to do anything about major cost drivers for the district – namely, pension and healthcare spending – MPS is staring down a $38 million deficit in the next year. That number balloons to nearly $200 million just a few years down the road.
Last week it was the DNR’s rushed approvals for four air pollution permits to allow Foxconn to emit annually 796 tons of eye-watering, land-and-water contaminating smog and other airborne pollutants. Today it’s the US EPA approval at Walker’s request to exempt much of SE Wisconsin from clean air standards that will apply to much of the state and country.
Black/white homeownership gap is a dismal 40.7%. It’s even worse in 8 other cities.
Vice President Mike Pence was in Wisconsin last week, raising money for Scott Walker and peddling snake oil about the new Republican tax law, which is on track to add $1.9 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Funding mechanism has become a gravy train for developers and distorts the free market, critics say.
Contributions to the Wisconsin Idea across generations.
There is more evidence that Wisconsin’s obligation to protect the natural world needs a strong, principled revival.
AG condemns award for rehabilitated lawyer and State Bar caves in to Schimel’s complaint.
In the 9th circuit, animals are free to bring lawsuits.
The speaker was scrambling last Friday to create the impression that he forced Conroy out not for reasons of politics but because members felt their “pastoral needs” were not being met.
Seven men who run Ascension Health and make $40 million want to save money by slashing services at hospital.
The UW System wasn’t created to solely train our workforce, but to “serve and stimulate society” and “extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campus.”
It is exceedingly difficult to label as racists the nearly 20 million white blue-collar workers who switched to vote for the first candidate who pretended to care about them. For they previously voted not just once, but twice, for Barack Obama.
GOP Senator Ron Johnson voted as a rubber stamp, approving all of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin acted to carefully vet Trump’s nominees, often when it was clear that the White House had not done so.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. “Being able to shadow officers during their daily meetings and tasks helped me better understand how an embassy functions. I was
A bill described by opponents as an assault on free speech, democracy, and on our constitutionally protected rights passed the Legislature, barring the state from contracting with companies that participate in an economic boycott of a repressive, apartheid government, Israel.
The Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, reflect on a rarity in politics — agreement in the Legislature on a big issue in an election year: juvenile justice reform. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
There is tension between a news organization’s desire for a high volume of stories against the need to invest much more time and energy in fewer high-value ones. Finding new business models to support this high-quality journalism is essential, and success stories have been few so far.
Gerrymandering denies us the most fundamental right that Americans have spent centuries fighting and dying for, and it’s time for this undemocratic practice to become a relic of the past.
Walker’s family-friendly tax cuts will fail to buy votes.
With a stubborn refusal to do anything about major cost drivers for the district – namely, pension and healthcare spending – MPS is staring down a $38 million deficit in the next year. That number balloons to nearly $200 million just a few years down the road.
