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Madison has a lot to offer Amazon. But Amazon won’t take it and Madison shouldn’t have bothered.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, handicap Gov. Scott Walker’s chances of re-election as he launches his bid for a third term. The “Two-Minute Take” is sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

When I hear some segment of white voters being maligned as clueless, my first thought runs to backers of Donald Trump, those people who actually believed he intended to help the working class. Author Joan C. Williams sees the opposite: It is college-educated white liberals who are the clueless ones.

In an interview with Edge Messaging President Brian Fraley, state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, reflects on his service this Veterans Day weekend.

In recognition of Veterans Day on November 11, I want to recognize the members of the U.S. Armed Forces who are part of University of Wisconsin–Madison’s heritage and its future.

We must indeed remember the millions of Americans who have been and continue to be sent to foreign lands to fight for dubious causes and imperial crusades. One day, let’s hope that the last war fought will seem like a distant memory, and that the veterans who pass away will not be replaced by new ones returning from foreign occupation.

Without the Supreme Court ruling in our favor this year, Wisconsinites will continue to find themselves without equal representation in their state government, which will inevitably fall hardest on the backs of communities of color.

The campaign against U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin doesn’t even have a final opponent and yet the leading primary contenders, Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir, are attracting gobs of secret money in a battle for bucks more important to them than any ideological position they take.

It was supposed to assure his reelection. Not anymore.

Some are head scratchers. Many have gotten little attention.

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We have finally reached a point, with majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and a White House willing to take bold steps, where we can create this heightened economic growth for all Americans.

Ryan has abandoned the biggest lie of his career about the urgency of reducing the nightmare of U.S. budget deficits, but his new lies about Republican tax cuts benefitting the middle class will create a brand-new American nightmare.

The timing was impossible to ignore. Exactly a year after Trump took office, the US electorate awoke.

Your proposal may be a good idea or a bad idea, but it is not a new idea. Change course and pledge to go on a listening tour and visit every two year college and hear them out. That is the Wisconsin Idea.

Walker’s re-election is anything but assured. A recent poll by a respected national survey firm found that Walker trails a generic Democratic opponent for re-election by 48 percent to 43 percent.

The Trump Effect in Wisconsin likely will help Walker. After all, Wisconsin voters knew full well who Trump was when they went to the polls, and they voted for him anyway. If there’s evidence that associating with Trump hurts Republican politicians in the state, I haven’t seen it.

Instead of reform, the GOP federal tax plan is really yet another attempt to foist the “trickle-down” theory on an unsuspecting public — you know, the theory that has failed time and again since it was first introduced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

This past week we announced a restructure of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. The committee will be charged with researching our tax code and developing a new, low, fair and simple plan.

Madison has a lot to offer Amazon. But Amazon won’t take it and Madison shouldn’t have bothered.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, handicap Gov. Scott Walker’s chances of re-election as he launches his bid for a third term. The “Two-Minute Take” is sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.

When I hear some segment of white voters being maligned as clueless, my first thought runs to backers of Donald Trump, those people who actually believed he intended to help the working class. Author Joan C. Williams sees the opposite: It is college-educated white liberals who are the clueless ones.

In an interview with Edge Messaging President Brian Fraley, state Rep. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, reflects on his service this Veterans Day weekend.

In recognition of Veterans Day on November 11, I want to recognize the members of the U.S. Armed Forces who are part of University of Wisconsin–Madison’s heritage and its future.

We must indeed remember the millions of Americans who have been and continue to be sent to foreign lands to fight for dubious causes and imperial crusades. One day, let’s hope that the last war fought will seem like a distant memory, and that the veterans who pass away will not be replaced by new ones returning from foreign occupation.

Without the Supreme Court ruling in our favor this year, Wisconsinites will continue to find themselves without equal representation in their state government, which will inevitably fall hardest on the backs of communities of color.

The campaign against U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin doesn’t even have a final opponent and yet the leading primary contenders, Kevin Nicholson and Leah Vukmir, are attracting gobs of secret money in a battle for bucks more important to them than any ideological position they take.

It was supposed to assure his reelection. Not anymore.

Some are head scratchers. Many have gotten little attention.

… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, please contact schmies@wispolitics.com for subscription options on the WisPolitics-State Affairs platform, which is the new home for WisPolitics subscriber products. Username or E-mail Password * Remember Me


We have finally reached a point, with majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and a White House willing to take bold steps, where we can create this heightened economic growth for all Americans.

Ryan has abandoned the biggest lie of his career about the urgency of reducing the nightmare of U.S. budget deficits, but his new lies about Republican tax cuts benefitting the middle class will create a brand-new American nightmare.

The timing was impossible to ignore. Exactly a year after Trump took office, the US electorate awoke.

Your proposal may be a good idea or a bad idea, but it is not a new idea. Change course and pledge to go on a listening tour and visit every two year college and hear them out. That is the Wisconsin Idea.

Walker’s re-election is anything but assured. A recent poll by a respected national survey firm found that Walker trails a generic Democratic opponent for re-election by 48 percent to 43 percent.

The Trump Effect in Wisconsin likely will help Walker. After all, Wisconsin voters knew full well who Trump was when they went to the polls, and they voted for him anyway. If there’s evidence that associating with Trump hurts Republican politicians in the state, I haven’t seen it.

Instead of reform, the GOP federal tax plan is really yet another attempt to foist the “trickle-down” theory on an unsuspecting public — you know, the theory that has failed time and again since it was first introduced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

This past week we announced a restructure of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. The committee will be charged with researching our tax code and developing a new, low, fair and simple plan.