Visit WisPolitics-State Affairs for premium content,
keyword notifications, bill tracking and more
Submit columns for consideration to wisopinion@wispolitics.com
Nobody has proposed jailing the state schools superintendent for having silly ideas about gun control or placing his political ambitions above the welfare of students.
Gov. Walker recently signed into law Assembly Bill 887, which directs the state to seek a federal waiver to allow operation of a state-based reinsurance plan to stabilize the marketplace.
$4.1 billion handout will deliver even less benefits, more costs than imagined.
It is vital to save net neutrality — and Wisconsin should be at the forefront of the fight for a free and open internet.
We need to ensure strong leadership in Wisconsin’s elections and safeguards against outside interference. I hope that both the Republicans in the legislature and the Elections board share this belief and that we take steps to secure Wisconsin’s elections.
For many landowners, small businesses, farmers and even local governments, the patchwork of regulations surrounding artificial wetlands and certain isolated wetlands has become costly and cumbersome.
Wisconsin is light years away from the nationally-leading environmental state bequeathed to us by John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gaylord Nelson and generations of preservationist activism.
We’d be a lot safer with improved highways and bridges, health care for all and a solid Social Security system that will last well into the future. It’s amazing what $7.2 trillion spent on peace, rather than war, could do.
Ryan stands up to Trump on tariffs, but has failed to do so for other issues.
Perhaps you’ve noticed that members of Congress have had a hard time explaining their own agenda amid the media vacuum created by President Donald Trump. To rectify this, I have drafted a sample form letter every Republican congressperson can send to his or her constituents to explain what they really think.
If President Donald Trump wants to protect good-paying, family-supporting jobs in America, especially here in Wisconsin, then he should reconsider the administration’s position on tariffs.
They may decide if Walker gets last minute laws he’s pushing for his reelection campaign.
If you’re Governor Scott Walker, you have to be feeling pretty good about the latest Marquette University Law School poll numbers.
Even disenfranchising Republican voters is okay if it means more GOP victories.
To make our communities safer and reduce recidivism, we must not automatically and reflexively just “build more prisons.” To be sure, some people have committed crimes that necessitate prison sentences. But for many others, probation and alternative-to-incarceration programs are excellent options because they can effectively hold people accountable, reform them into productive citizens again, and help to reduce an enormous burden on taxpayers.
February is the shortest month, but Wisconsin special interests and their government enablers used it all to broadly advance their war on the environment.
Nothing Walker has done up until now has been so aggressively anti-democratic as his refusal to hold special elections to fill vacant seats in the state Legislature.
The Wisconsin policy is now almost six months old, and protests have continued — but shout-downs and speaker disruptions are thinning.
We believe that living the Wisconsin Idea is about using our skills at the university as inventors and engineers and in the trades as machinists, electricians and other specialties to revitalize Wisconsin’s industrial heritage in a modern context.
The Wisconsin experience shows us that worker freedom means smaller, less powerful unions. It also shows us that government will continue to function and students will continue to learn and thrive.
Nobody has proposed jailing the state schools superintendent for having silly ideas about gun control or placing his political ambitions above the welfare of students.
Gov. Walker recently signed into law Assembly Bill 887, which directs the state to seek a federal waiver to allow operation of a state-based reinsurance plan to stabilize the marketplace.
$4.1 billion handout will deliver even less benefits, more costs than imagined.
It is vital to save net neutrality — and Wisconsin should be at the forefront of the fight for a free and open internet.
We need to ensure strong leadership in Wisconsin’s elections and safeguards against outside interference. I hope that both the Republicans in the legislature and the Elections board share this belief and that we take steps to secure Wisconsin’s elections.
For many landowners, small businesses, farmers and even local governments, the patchwork of regulations surrounding artificial wetlands and certain isolated wetlands has become costly and cumbersome.
Wisconsin is light years away from the nationally-leading environmental state bequeathed to us by John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Gaylord Nelson and generations of preservationist activism.
We’d be a lot safer with improved highways and bridges, health care for all and a solid Social Security system that will last well into the future. It’s amazing what $7.2 trillion spent on peace, rather than war, could do.
Ryan stands up to Trump on tariffs, but has failed to do so for other issues.
Perhaps you’ve noticed that members of Congress have had a hard time explaining their own agenda amid the media vacuum created by President Donald Trump. To rectify this, I have drafted a sample form letter every Republican congressperson can send to his or her constituents to explain what they really think.
If President Donald Trump wants to protect good-paying, family-supporting jobs in America, especially here in Wisconsin, then he should reconsider the administration’s position on tariffs.
They may decide if Walker gets last minute laws he’s pushing for his reelection campaign.
If you’re Governor Scott Walker, you have to be feeling pretty good about the latest Marquette University Law School poll numbers.
Even disenfranchising Republican voters is okay if it means more GOP victories.
To make our communities safer and reduce recidivism, we must not automatically and reflexively just “build more prisons.” To be sure, some people have committed crimes that necessitate prison sentences. But for many others, probation and alternative-to-incarceration programs are excellent options because they can effectively hold people accountable, reform them into productive citizens again, and help to reduce an enormous burden on taxpayers.
February is the shortest month, but Wisconsin special interests and their government enablers used it all to broadly advance their war on the environment.
Nothing Walker has done up until now has been so aggressively anti-democratic as his refusal to hold special elections to fill vacant seats in the state Legislature.
The Wisconsin policy is now almost six months old, and protests have continued — but shout-downs and speaker disruptions are thinning.
We believe that living the Wisconsin Idea is about using our skills at the university as inventors and engineers and in the trades as machinists, electricians and other specialties to revitalize Wisconsin’s industrial heritage in a modern context.
The Wisconsin experience shows us that worker freedom means smaller, less powerful unions. It also shows us that government will continue to function and students will continue to learn and thrive.
