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Gov. Scott Walker recently announced a plan to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake and move offenders from the Northern Wisconsin youth prisons to new regional facilities.
Nationally respected pollster Paul Maslin says Democrats could do well in 2018 if they credibly offer an alternative to the status quo.
The next Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin should be the candidate who best expresses what the author Michael Harrington used to describe as “the left wing of the possible” — a progressive who can win. It is entirely true that the candidate who best strikes this balance could be over 70 or under 40. But it is also true that the Democratic Party needs an infusion of young blood among the ranks of its candidates.
The state of Florida has 20.6 million residents. Wisconsin has 5.8 million. Both states are about the same number of square miles. Florida has 67 school districts. Wisconsin has 425.
It’s bad enough that Wisconsin Republicans have gone out of their way to make it harder for many Wisconsin citizens to exercise their civic duty to vote with an onerous voter ID law — now state government is making it even harder to get those IDs in the first place.
As a longtime conservative strategist and consultant, I had a front row seat to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court called, “a perfect storm of wrongs,” visited upon people who are “wholly innocent of any wrongdoing.”
Past economic data suggests it won’t. And voters think it will fail.
The proposed legislation would allow the wanton, unregulated killing of wolves in Wisconsin for as long as the species was on the federal Endangered or Threatened Species List.
In the computer era, large swaths of Social Security numbers can be stolen, transmitted, used to steal an individual’s identity. This was never supposed to be the case; according to the Social Security Administration, the cards were “never intended to serve as a personal identification document.”
Medical cannabis pioneer helped build movement in Wisconsin and beyond.
Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling.
An open letter to Fitzgerald, Vos and Wisconsin state senators.
Last week, Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a comprehensive plan which makes substantial investments that closely align the state of Wisconsin with current best practices in juvenile corrections.
Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
Do you believe it is appropriate for state Supreme Court candidates to openly discuss their personal political views?
Gov. Scott Walker recently announced a plan to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake and move offenders from the Northern Wisconsin youth prisons to new regional facilities.
Nationally respected pollster Paul Maslin says Democrats could do well in 2018 if they credibly offer an alternative to the status quo.
The next Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin should be the candidate who best expresses what the author Michael Harrington used to describe as “the left wing of the possible” — a progressive who can win. It is entirely true that the candidate who best strikes this balance could be over 70 or under 40. But it is also true that the Democratic Party needs an infusion of young blood among the ranks of its candidates.
The state of Florida has 20.6 million residents. Wisconsin has 5.8 million. Both states are about the same number of square miles. Florida has 67 school districts. Wisconsin has 425.
It’s bad enough that Wisconsin Republicans have gone out of their way to make it harder for many Wisconsin citizens to exercise their civic duty to vote with an onerous voter ID law — now state government is making it even harder to get those IDs in the first place.
As a longtime conservative strategist and consultant, I had a front row seat to what the Wisconsin Supreme Court called, “a perfect storm of wrongs,” visited upon people who are “wholly innocent of any wrongdoing.”
Past economic data suggests it won’t. And voters think it will fail.
The proposed legislation would allow the wanton, unregulated killing of wolves in Wisconsin for as long as the species was on the federal Endangered or Threatened Species List.
In the computer era, large swaths of Social Security numbers can be stolen, transmitted, used to steal an individual’s identity. This was never supposed to be the case; according to the Social Security Administration, the cards were “never intended to serve as a personal identification document.”
Medical cannabis pioneer helped build movement in Wisconsin and beyond.
Priorities should include tax reform, corrections, professional licensure and tolling.
An open letter to Fitzgerald, Vos and Wisconsin state senators.
Last week, Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a comprehensive plan which makes substantial investments that closely align the state of Wisconsin with current best practices in juvenile corrections.
Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
Do you believe it is appropriate for state Supreme Court candidates to openly discuss their personal political views?
