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Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
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Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Madison columnist Emily Mills and gun rights advocate Nik Clark, the founder of Wisconsin Carry, share two perspectives about what the U.S. should do, if anything, about guns.

Schimel-Pruitt are a solid chamber of commerce tag team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections.

Quantifying partisan makeup through a single formula is like trying to judge a baseball team simply through analytics and statistics.

Pushing project back decades, adding billions in costs, hurting metro area.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, deliver their state budget winners and losers in this week’s “Two Minute Take,” brought to you by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

In the world of Scott Walker, politics, not the public’s long-term interest, always comes first.

The case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.

State personal income growth trails nation, but that means more federal funds for Medicaid.

Facebook and social media in general have developed an unprecedented power that governments and their citizens are finally seeing not as a salvation but as a threat.

Too many judges, too many indigent jailed. Reform long overdue.

Republicans never had an actual plan. Bernie Sanders might learn from that.

The latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is emblematic of deep political divisions over how best to provide health-care coverage to millions of Americans. However, that debate is not standing in the way of hospitals, medical professionals, insurers, entrepreneurs and others from working on better, more efficient ways to care for patients.

An important part of our commitment is to the young adults in this state. We want a significant share of Wisconsin’s top high school students to come and study at UW- Madison, so I want to be clear about how strong our commitment is to the top students in Wisconsin.

It’s not every day that a congressman from Kentucky and a farmer from Wisconsin ignite a national conversation on a specific issue. However, when it comes to industrial hemp no two states are more historically intertwined.

Trade unions are constantly buffeted by financial power plays. In Wisconsin they are being branded as victims of political expediency by the progressive community yet supported by many members because they fight for jobs. The contention centers on two big projects – Milwaukee’s new $500 million arena for the Bucks and the Foxconn project.

State requirements for nurses, plumbers, CPAs and other jobs could be scrapped.

Carol Lenz and Jim Bowmen’s recent op-ed, “Choice Helps Few Public School Students,” ignores a number of important details about school choice in the state of Wisconsin.

Here are key arguments Supreme Court will hear. How would you rule?

At the 86th annual Wisconsin Farmers Union State Convention this past January, members of the family farm organization named nonpartisan redistricting as a special order of business for 2017, voicing support for the creation of a nonpartisan entity to perform all future redistricting for city, county, state and federal offices in the state of Wisconsin.

Tax cuts will cost trillions. Despite Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s claims, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Madison columnist Emily Mills and gun rights advocate Nik Clark, the founder of Wisconsin Carry, share two perspectives about what the U.S. should do, if anything, about guns.

Schimel-Pruitt are a solid chamber of commerce tag team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections.

Quantifying partisan makeup through a single formula is like trying to judge a baseball team simply through analytics and statistics.

Pushing project back decades, adding billions in costs, hurting metro area.

The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, deliver their state budget winners and losers in this week’s “Two Minute Take,” brought to you by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.

In the world of Scott Walker, politics, not the public’s long-term interest, always comes first.

The case should have gone through the state court system using state constitutional arguments.

State personal income growth trails nation, but that means more federal funds for Medicaid.

Facebook and social media in general have developed an unprecedented power that governments and their citizens are finally seeing not as a salvation but as a threat.

Too many judges, too many indigent jailed. Reform long overdue.

Republicans never had an actual plan. Bernie Sanders might learn from that.

The latest effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is emblematic of deep political divisions over how best to provide health-care coverage to millions of Americans. However, that debate is not standing in the way of hospitals, medical professionals, insurers, entrepreneurs and others from working on better, more efficient ways to care for patients.

An important part of our commitment is to the young adults in this state. We want a significant share of Wisconsin’s top high school students to come and study at UW- Madison, so I want to be clear about how strong our commitment is to the top students in Wisconsin.

It’s not every day that a congressman from Kentucky and a farmer from Wisconsin ignite a national conversation on a specific issue. However, when it comes to industrial hemp no two states are more historically intertwined.

Trade unions are constantly buffeted by financial power plays. In Wisconsin they are being branded as victims of political expediency by the progressive community yet supported by many members because they fight for jobs. The contention centers on two big projects – Milwaukee’s new $500 million arena for the Bucks and the Foxconn project.

State requirements for nurses, plumbers, CPAs and other jobs could be scrapped.

Carol Lenz and Jim Bowmen’s recent op-ed, “Choice Helps Few Public School Students,” ignores a number of important details about school choice in the state of Wisconsin.

Here are key arguments Supreme Court will hear. How would you rule?

At the 86th annual Wisconsin Farmers Union State Convention this past January, members of the family farm organization named nonpartisan redistricting as a special order of business for 2017, voicing support for the creation of a nonpartisan entity to perform all future redistricting for city, county, state and federal offices in the state of Wisconsin.