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Bill Gerrard was known as a “wheeler-dealer” in his long career in the Wisconsin political scene, sort of a throwback to an era when despite all odds things got done.
The UW Regents and the chancellors have performed well throughout the history of the university in protecting free speech and have fended off elected officials wanting to restrict that speech.
Bill proposes same oversight voters have over public school revenue.
I have no problems with accountability requirements. Indeed, the entire UW System already reports on a series of accountability measures that can be found here. But the devil is in the details when you start trying to figure out how to tie the distribution of dollars to these metrics.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin launched a website Thursday morning with the aim of bringing the dysfunction of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin into sharp focus.
The incumbent superintendent was vulnerable. Why the GOP stumbled.
Liberal fury could have helped unseat the conservative justice.
We’d better use the special elections and the big one in 2018 to surround President Trump with intelligent, knowledgeable people who can act as brakes on his worst impulses and weathervane views.
Milwaukee was once the healthiest city in the country. It won the award so many years in a row that they stopped the contest. That was in 30s and 40s. Things are much different now.
Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.
It seems that almost every day there is a new outrage in our national, state or local politics.
When less than 16% of voters show up on election day, we have a problem. Let’s try to fix that problem.
Kooyenga may be the right answer to one of the left’s strongest voices.
The Trump administration’s first budget proposes deep cuts to the federal government’s research and development funding. Since World War II, federal investment has been by far the nation’s most important source of funding for basic science and has been behind nearly every breakthrough technology of the postwar era. This funding supports hundreds of private and public universities nationwide, including in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t seem to care how many hours schoolkids are in the classroom, as long as they can pass standardized tests — a proposal that could go against the academic consensus that time in the classroom matters.
Both the data and politics point in one direction: accept the federal funding.
Fortunately, Trump’s budget proposals aren’t expected to fly — at least in the draconian form he has proposed. But they are clearly a blueprint for the road on which we will now travel.
A decade ago not one Democratic senator opposed Gorsuch’s confirmation for a seat on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 10th Circuit based in Colorado.
Staggering increases in addiction. Help from state is needed.
Bill Gerrard was known as a “wheeler-dealer” in his long career in the Wisconsin political scene, sort of a throwback to an era when despite all odds things got done.
The UW Regents and the chancellors have performed well throughout the history of the university in protecting free speech and have fended off elected officials wanting to restrict that speech.
Bill proposes same oversight voters have over public school revenue.
I have no problems with accountability requirements. Indeed, the entire UW System already reports on a series of accountability measures that can be found here. But the devil is in the details when you start trying to figure out how to tie the distribution of dollars to these metrics.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin launched a website Thursday morning with the aim of bringing the dysfunction of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin into sharp focus.
The incumbent superintendent was vulnerable. Why the GOP stumbled.
Liberal fury could have helped unseat the conservative justice.
We’d better use the special elections and the big one in 2018 to surround President Trump with intelligent, knowledgeable people who can act as brakes on his worst impulses and weathervane views.
Milwaukee was once the healthiest city in the country. It won the award so many years in a row that they stopped the contest. That was in 30s and 40s. Things are much different now.
Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.
It seems that almost every day there is a new outrage in our national, state or local politics.
When less than 16% of voters show up on election day, we have a problem. Let’s try to fix that problem.
Kooyenga may be the right answer to one of the left’s strongest voices.
The Trump administration’s first budget proposes deep cuts to the federal government’s research and development funding. Since World War II, federal investment has been by far the nation’s most important source of funding for basic science and has been behind nearly every breakthrough technology of the postwar era. This funding supports hundreds of private and public universities nationwide, including in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t seem to care how many hours schoolkids are in the classroom, as long as they can pass standardized tests — a proposal that could go against the academic consensus that time in the classroom matters.
Both the data and politics point in one direction: accept the federal funding.
Fortunately, Trump’s budget proposals aren’t expected to fly — at least in the draconian form he has proposed. But they are clearly a blueprint for the road on which we will now travel.
A decade ago not one Democratic senator opposed Gorsuch’s confirmation for a seat on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 10th Circuit based in Colorado.
Staggering increases in addiction. Help from state is needed.
