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GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner continues to advocate for the revitalization of the Voting Rights Act — along with Congressional Black Caucus members such as Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Georgia Congressman John Lewis.
Title X funding to organizations like Planned Parenthood is now in jeopardy because of Donald Trump’s insistence on instituting a so-called “domestic gag rule” that would deny funding to any clinic that includes the word “abortion” in counseling pregnant women about their options or that actually performs abortions.
When you add all of the above to our rising wages, lowest-ever unemployment rate, budget surpluses, tax cuts, record K-12 education funding, more investment in broadband, and the best-funded pension system in America, it is crystal clear that Wisconsin’s economy is absolutely going in the right direction.
Amidst the deliberations about the National Defense Authorization Act are a series of proposals to undermine two of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws.
At a Saturday rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Randy Bryce told a whopper that even many of his supporters couldn’t cheer. Bryce told the audience that he has never paid a bill from money made as a politician.
Wisconsin’s senior senator has stepped in to organize a post-primary unity fundraiser featuring Diane Hendricks and Dick Uihlein.
With recent new stories reporting Amazon is planning a new distribution center in southeastern Wisconsin, Amazon can and should seize the moment and provide transformational leadership in another way: it can lead corporate America by bringing stable employment to Milwaukee’s central city and other high unemployment urban areas.
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced charges against 12 Russian agents in the 2016 election interference probe.
Even if one excuses the two times Bryce was arrested for political show, his total tally still features far more arrests than your typical Johnny Lunchbucket.
While my choice was made clear to me through the experience of my marriage, the birth of my three children, my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior, my time fighting in two wars, and my experience in business since leaving the Marine Corps, it came at personal cost.
Scott Pruitt is gone from the EPA but the destruction he wreaked lives on in the able hands of Brad Schimel.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the possibility that the Great Lakes Compact may upend Foxconn’s plans. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
In a recent talk on the current state of the press, I cited a poll by the website Axios in which 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they believe traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories.
An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity
DWD’s Pre-Employment Drug Testing Program is an easy way for employers to help grow Wisconsin’s pool of work-ready job seekers. It focuses treatment resources on Unemployment Insurance claimants who have the skills and motivation to work, but fail a drug test as part of an employment offer.
Walker will use money for income tax cut, delivering much of benefit to wealthiest.
When Nicholson criticizes Wisconsin Republicans as merely being part of a political class, he denigrates the progress that has made been made over the last eight years.
Common Council may regret stripping mayor’s power over Fire-Police director.
This historic investment in the future of Wisconsin is one that the whole state can be proud of. Foxconn chose to invest in Wisconsin, and the positive impact will reach every corner of our great state for generations to come.
Our current crisis is again driven by failed policies that create unmanaged surpluses and depressed prices.
GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner continues to advocate for the revitalization of the Voting Rights Act — along with Congressional Black Caucus members such as Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Georgia Congressman John Lewis.
Title X funding to organizations like Planned Parenthood is now in jeopardy because of Donald Trump’s insistence on instituting a so-called “domestic gag rule” that would deny funding to any clinic that includes the word “abortion” in counseling pregnant women about their options or that actually performs abortions.
When you add all of the above to our rising wages, lowest-ever unemployment rate, budget surpluses, tax cuts, record K-12 education funding, more investment in broadband, and the best-funded pension system in America, it is crystal clear that Wisconsin’s economy is absolutely going in the right direction.
Amidst the deliberations about the National Defense Authorization Act are a series of proposals to undermine two of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws.
At a Saturday rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Randy Bryce told a whopper that even many of his supporters couldn’t cheer. Bryce told the audience that he has never paid a bill from money made as a politician.
Wisconsin’s senior senator has stepped in to organize a post-primary unity fundraiser featuring Diane Hendricks and Dick Uihlein.
With recent new stories reporting Amazon is planning a new distribution center in southeastern Wisconsin, Amazon can and should seize the moment and provide transformational leadership in another way: it can lead corporate America by bringing stable employment to Milwaukee’s central city and other high unemployment urban areas.
On Friday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced charges against 12 Russian agents in the 2016 election interference probe.
Even if one excuses the two times Bryce was arrested for political show, his total tally still features far more arrests than your typical Johnny Lunchbucket.
While my choice was made clear to me through the experience of my marriage, the birth of my three children, my acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior, my time fighting in two wars, and my experience in business since leaving the Marine Corps, it came at personal cost.
Scott Pruitt is gone from the EPA but the destruction he wreaked lives on in the able hands of Brad Schimel.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the possibility that the Great Lakes Compact may upend Foxconn’s plans. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
In a recent talk on the current state of the press, I cited a poll by the website Axios in which 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they believe traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories.
An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity
DWD’s Pre-Employment Drug Testing Program is an easy way for employers to help grow Wisconsin’s pool of work-ready job seekers. It focuses treatment resources on Unemployment Insurance claimants who have the skills and motivation to work, but fail a drug test as part of an employment offer.
Walker will use money for income tax cut, delivering much of benefit to wealthiest.
When Nicholson criticizes Wisconsin Republicans as merely being part of a political class, he denigrates the progress that has made been made over the last eight years.
Common Council may regret stripping mayor’s power over Fire-Police director.
This historic investment in the future of Wisconsin is one that the whole state can be proud of. Foxconn chose to invest in Wisconsin, and the positive impact will reach every corner of our great state for generations to come.
Our current crisis is again driven by failed policies that create unmanaged surpluses and depressed prices.
