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No one denies that many of Walker’s proposals are meant to reassure voters in 2018. But Democrats are inventing new contortions to pretend they oppose the plans.
Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals.
The banal privatizing of Wisconsin public resources and nationally-noted environmental degradation during Walker’s rule isn’t complicated. There aren’t coincidences anymore.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, handicap Tuesday’s Supreme Court primary. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators are working on an incentive package that would give Kimberly-Clark “Foxconn terms” to keep 600 jobs the paper manufacturer now plans to eliminate in Neenah.
The sprawling Democratic field for governor and the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team have something in common this winter — both are causing angst.
We need a governor who will reestablish the norms of our democracy.
While a majority of legislators have professed support for a bill that would close the so-called “dark store loophole,” when the time came to make sure the bill would pass this legislative session, all but one Republican voted against bringing it to the floor.
New study confirms link between opioid usage and increase in kids in foster care.
Its attempt to fire the bipartisan head of state Elections Commission is clearly illegal.
Revenue from gas taxes will slowly disappear in the years to come. More debt is not the answer either. Over 20% of all transportation fund revenues are already used for debt service rather than improving our roads. All told, we spend over half a billion per year just servicing transportation-related debt.
Partisan politics is alive and well in the race for the next justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And that is deeply troubling, though not surprising in these hyper-partisan times.
We don’t do military parades. Mussolini did military parades. We have the best and most expensive military ever assembled. We don’t have to prove it. Our foes know all about it.
It remains an open question which factors really led Abele to abandon the idea of putting parking meters in public parks. He has often stuck to his guns regardless of public opinion. And here comes another bill he’s pushing in Madison mainly designed to increase his powers and stick it to the county board.
Is the Milwaukee Police chief or his Fire-Police boss guilty of official misconduct?
The courts are the final authority in this country, and ours has been looking out for special interests, instead of standing up for regular people.
What we need to do is fix our broken Wisconsin Supreme Court. Big-money special interests have taken over. Justices refuse to recuse themselves even when their donors — who’ve given massive amounts of money — want the court to rule a certain way. They’ve even closed administrative meetings so they can do more of their business out of the public’s view.
Judges are not legislators, nor are we executives. Our job as judges is to interpret and apply the law, based not on our personal or political beliefs, but by relying on statutes and the Constitution. Simply put, our job is to be arbiters of the law, not policy analysts or political activists.
Liberals who want to legislate from the Wisconsin Supreme Court hope to advance that agenda at the April 4 general election. They’ll get their wish even sooner if conservatives don’t get off their butts on February 20.
Big money can now pollute Wisconsin Supreme Court races more than ever before thanks to the GOP-dominated legislature, which recklessly rewrote our campaign finance law in 2015.
No one denies that many of Walker’s proposals are meant to reassure voters in 2018. But Democrats are inventing new contortions to pretend they oppose the plans.
Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals.
The banal privatizing of Wisconsin public resources and nationally-noted environmental degradation during Walker’s rule isn’t complicated. There aren’t coincidences anymore.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, handicap Tuesday’s Supreme Court primary. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Gov. Scott Walker and GOP legislators are working on an incentive package that would give Kimberly-Clark “Foxconn terms” to keep 600 jobs the paper manufacturer now plans to eliminate in Neenah.
The sprawling Democratic field for governor and the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team have something in common this winter — both are causing angst.
We need a governor who will reestablish the norms of our democracy.
While a majority of legislators have professed support for a bill that would close the so-called “dark store loophole,” when the time came to make sure the bill would pass this legislative session, all but one Republican voted against bringing it to the floor.
New study confirms link between opioid usage and increase in kids in foster care.
Its attempt to fire the bipartisan head of state Elections Commission is clearly illegal.
Revenue from gas taxes will slowly disappear in the years to come. More debt is not the answer either. Over 20% of all transportation fund revenues are already used for debt service rather than improving our roads. All told, we spend over half a billion per year just servicing transportation-related debt.
Partisan politics is alive and well in the race for the next justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And that is deeply troubling, though not surprising in these hyper-partisan times.
We don’t do military parades. Mussolini did military parades. We have the best and most expensive military ever assembled. We don’t have to prove it. Our foes know all about it.
It remains an open question which factors really led Abele to abandon the idea of putting parking meters in public parks. He has often stuck to his guns regardless of public opinion. And here comes another bill he’s pushing in Madison mainly designed to increase his powers and stick it to the county board.
Is the Milwaukee Police chief or his Fire-Police boss guilty of official misconduct?
The courts are the final authority in this country, and ours has been looking out for special interests, instead of standing up for regular people.
What we need to do is fix our broken Wisconsin Supreme Court. Big-money special interests have taken over. Justices refuse to recuse themselves even when their donors — who’ve given massive amounts of money — want the court to rule a certain way. They’ve even closed administrative meetings so they can do more of their business out of the public’s view.
Judges are not legislators, nor are we executives. Our job as judges is to interpret and apply the law, based not on our personal or political beliefs, but by relying on statutes and the Constitution. Simply put, our job is to be arbiters of the law, not policy analysts or political activists.
Liberals who want to legislate from the Wisconsin Supreme Court hope to advance that agenda at the April 4 general election. They’ll get their wish even sooner if conservatives don’t get off their butts on February 20.
Big money can now pollute Wisconsin Supreme Court races more than ever before thanks to the GOP-dominated legislature, which recklessly rewrote our campaign finance law in 2015.
