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Whoever is chosen next to lead Milwaukee’s police force should look to New York City or Los Angeles — two cities that have very little in common except a low homicide rate — for answers on how to reduce violent crime here.
Scott Walker in his State of the State speech called for a new tax credit of $100 per child as the guv asked lawmakers to make sure checks show up before students start school this fall.
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey.
We must use the current moment of high awareness and concern about sexual misconduct as an opportunity to change our campus culture and deal as effectively as possible with the problems of sexual assault and harassment on our campus.
Rather than look outside our state for workers, let’s equip our schools with the technology they need for all subject areas. Let’s graduate more students and keep them here in Wisconsin with the knowledge and skills our businesses need.
There are a number of bills before the Legislature that will expand freedom, opportunity and liberty in the state.
As the Supreme Court primary and general elections approach, voters should demand that each candidate state whether he or she would step aside in any case where a contribution of $10,000 or more was made to the candidate’s political campaign and whether the candidate supports such a rule for all Supreme Court justices.
There’s an old saying in politics: “Don’t count your chickens until the bones are in your mouth.” Democrats who are eagerly anticipating the November elections should keep those earthy words of wisdom in mind. Overconfidence can be disastrous.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
The president’s transgressions have done more to unify our country than any policy the administration has championed.
When judges substitute their own discretion in place of strict interpretation of the law, courts invite more politics. If Burns and Dallet want to stand up to what they perceive to be Republican excesses, they have every right to do so. In fact, there’s still plenty of time for both of them to file paperwork and run for governor.
We need immigrant workers. Will the two parties find a middle ground?
Siphoning nearly $7 million into recruitment ad campaign wrong move for Wisconsin.
Politics aside, Walker’s sudden interest in addressing the health insurance affordability crisis will not undo the damage his years of sabotage have done, let alone make coverage affordable for most Wisconsinites.
Why didn’t he oppose axing Elections, Ethics heads? Perhaps because he wanted revenge.
After a Federal Bankruptcy Judge in Milwaukee ruled last week that the UW System could not be dropped as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against it by the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, the Foundation’s attorney–Paul Swanson–was quoted as saying “The Legislature should just man up and settle this thing.”
The SOFA Act is designed to save lives by cutting off access to fentanyl’s nasty ingredients and by helping prosecutors lock up the people at the highest levels of fentanyl production and distribution rings.
As Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators gear up to seek re-election in November, it’s time to consider 15 benchmarks of state government during six years of GOP control. The benchmarks measure the change from state government’s 2011 fiscal (July through June) year – the last budget of then-Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle – and the fiscal 2017 budget signed into law by Walker.
Basic science may not make a great meme, but curiosity-driven research helps us understand how nature works at the most fundamental level. This allows us to invent things that no one else has thought of, leading to ideas that over time will create jobs, save lives and drive the economy. If the United States were to lose our advantage in basic discoveries, we would risk undermining the strength of our economy and our global leadership.
The loss of the 10th Senate district may have more to do with local politics than any statewide disenchantment with the Republicans in Madison or, for that matter, Trump fatigue.
Whoever is chosen next to lead Milwaukee’s police force should look to New York City or Los Angeles — two cities that have very little in common except a low homicide rate — for answers on how to reduce violent crime here.
Scott Walker in his State of the State speech called for a new tax credit of $100 per child as the guv asked lawmakers to make sure checks show up before students start school this fall.
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey.
We must use the current moment of high awareness and concern about sexual misconduct as an opportunity to change our campus culture and deal as effectively as possible with the problems of sexual assault and harassment on our campus.
Rather than look outside our state for workers, let’s equip our schools with the technology they need for all subject areas. Let’s graduate more students and keep them here in Wisconsin with the knowledge and skills our businesses need.
There are a number of bills before the Legislature that will expand freedom, opportunity and liberty in the state.
As the Supreme Court primary and general elections approach, voters should demand that each candidate state whether he or she would step aside in any case where a contribution of $10,000 or more was made to the candidate’s political campaign and whether the candidate supports such a rule for all Supreme Court justices.
There’s an old saying in politics: “Don’t count your chickens until the bones are in your mouth.” Democrats who are eagerly anticipating the November elections should keep those earthy words of wisdom in mind. Overconfidence can be disastrous.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
The president’s transgressions have done more to unify our country than any policy the administration has championed.
When judges substitute their own discretion in place of strict interpretation of the law, courts invite more politics. If Burns and Dallet want to stand up to what they perceive to be Republican excesses, they have every right to do so. In fact, there’s still plenty of time for both of them to file paperwork and run for governor.
We need immigrant workers. Will the two parties find a middle ground?
Siphoning nearly $7 million into recruitment ad campaign wrong move for Wisconsin.
Politics aside, Walker’s sudden interest in addressing the health insurance affordability crisis will not undo the damage his years of sabotage have done, let alone make coverage affordable for most Wisconsinites.
Why didn’t he oppose axing Elections, Ethics heads? Perhaps because he wanted revenge.
After a Federal Bankruptcy Judge in Milwaukee ruled last week that the UW System could not be dropped as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against it by the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, the Foundation’s attorney–Paul Swanson–was quoted as saying “The Legislature should just man up and settle this thing.”
The SOFA Act is designed to save lives by cutting off access to fentanyl’s nasty ingredients and by helping prosecutors lock up the people at the highest levels of fentanyl production and distribution rings.
As Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators gear up to seek re-election in November, it’s time to consider 15 benchmarks of state government during six years of GOP control. The benchmarks measure the change from state government’s 2011 fiscal (July through June) year – the last budget of then-Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle – and the fiscal 2017 budget signed into law by Walker.
Basic science may not make a great meme, but curiosity-driven research helps us understand how nature works at the most fundamental level. This allows us to invent things that no one else has thought of, leading to ideas that over time will create jobs, save lives and drive the economy. If the United States were to lose our advantage in basic discoveries, we would risk undermining the strength of our economy and our global leadership.
The loss of the 10th Senate district may have more to do with local politics than any statewide disenchantment with the Republicans in Madison or, for that matter, Trump fatigue.
