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While raising the gas tax won’t solve all our problems, getting agreement on a modest fuel tax increase would be good first step.

Gronik is running as a Bernie Sanders businessman.

The mayor made a sloppy and serious mistake when he claimed that Madison accounts for two-thirds of all the state’s private sector job creation since Gov. Scott Walker took office.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after Wisconsin schools superintendent Tony Evers said he is mulling an election challenge to Gov. Scott Walker.

There’s no question a majority of journalists are liberal — not all but, statistically speaking, a high percentage. There are also a vast majority of journalists who are professional enough to do their jobs without being influenced by their own political or ideological beliefs.

As part of the Republican-controlled Legislature’s attempt to close a $1 billion transportation fund deficit, three Republican Assembly leaders put a new twist on the old corporate welfare schtick.

Report shows poorer residents have far less access to bike trails.

Nygren’s 28-year-old daughter, Cassie, has been dealing with drug addiction for years, including time in prison.

As with many seemingly intractable problems, Ryan needs to step back, rethink and come at the economic chaos in health care in a whole new light.

The two GOP governors have different views on federal health care reform efforts.

With more than 30,000 people admitted to hospitals annually for firearm injuries, and a huge segment of them receiving Medicaid, there seems to be a vacuum of dialogue and common sense when it comes to our national reform efforts presently underway in Congress.

These growing industries have tremendous potential to create jobs, attract tourism and grow our state’s economy. There’s just one thing holding them back: outdated, prohibition-era regulations.

As a person of color studying at the overwhelmingly white University of Wisconsin-Madison, I believe policymakers also ought to hear my story and consider my experience, and the stories and experience of other students of color, before telling us whose voices are and aren’t being heard.

Critics skate by the Legislative Audit Bureau’s conclusion that DOT “generally had effective oversight” of the bidding and contract award process and “took steps to control construction costs, but it could take additional steps.”

If Foxconn were to build a 10,000-employee factory in Racine County, there would be a need for extensive transit coordination among Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee counties to help move unprecedented numbers of people in and out of the Racine area.

There was a time, and not so long ago, when Wisconsin didn’t show up on the radar screens of businesses and national site-selection consultants looking for places to grow.





While raising the gas tax won’t solve all our problems, getting agreement on a modest fuel tax increase would be good first step.

Gronik is running as a Bernie Sanders businessman.

The mayor made a sloppy and serious mistake when he claimed that Madison accounts for two-thirds of all the state’s private sector job creation since Gov. Scott Walker took office.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after Wisconsin schools superintendent Tony Evers said he is mulling an election challenge to Gov. Scott Walker.

There’s no question a majority of journalists are liberal — not all but, statistically speaking, a high percentage. There are also a vast majority of journalists who are professional enough to do their jobs without being influenced by their own political or ideological beliefs.

As part of the Republican-controlled Legislature’s attempt to close a $1 billion transportation fund deficit, three Republican Assembly leaders put a new twist on the old corporate welfare schtick.

Report shows poorer residents have far less access to bike trails.

Nygren’s 28-year-old daughter, Cassie, has been dealing with drug addiction for years, including time in prison.

As with many seemingly intractable problems, Ryan needs to step back, rethink and come at the economic chaos in health care in a whole new light.

The two GOP governors have different views on federal health care reform efforts.

With more than 30,000 people admitted to hospitals annually for firearm injuries, and a huge segment of them receiving Medicaid, there seems to be a vacuum of dialogue and common sense when it comes to our national reform efforts presently underway in Congress.

These growing industries have tremendous potential to create jobs, attract tourism and grow our state’s economy. There’s just one thing holding them back: outdated, prohibition-era regulations.

As a person of color studying at the overwhelmingly white University of Wisconsin-Madison, I believe policymakers also ought to hear my story and consider my experience, and the stories and experience of other students of color, before telling us whose voices are and aren’t being heard.

Critics skate by the Legislative Audit Bureau’s conclusion that DOT “generally had effective oversight” of the bidding and contract award process and “took steps to control construction costs, but it could take additional steps.”

If Foxconn were to build a 10,000-employee factory in Racine County, there would be a need for extensive transit coordination among Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee counties to help move unprecedented numbers of people in and out of the Racine area.

There was a time, and not so long ago, when Wisconsin didn’t show up on the radar screens of businesses and national site-selection consultants looking for places to grow.



