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While Wisconsin’s wealthy continue to receive bountiful handouts, most other working families continue to struggle, working harder and harder just to get by.
Wisconsin water belongs to everyone and we need to do do a better job protecting the water and our rights to it.
If we fail to take responsibility for how we treat the weakest, most powerless members of our society who are incarcerated, we have ignored some of the most important and basic moral obligations of a civilized society.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on a Wisconsin bill that would penalize disruptive speech on campuses.
For boys, the president is providing a toxic road map to manhood.
A comparison of how each legislator’s school districts would fare under Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to increase state K-12 schools aids by $649 million and the different school-aid boost of Assembly Republicans is a fascinating example of “legislating by printout.”
The intractable problem with the transportation budget in Wisconsin is not that there is too little money for our needs. The problem is that politicians want to spend far more than Wisconsinites can afford. Toll roads will not fix that problem.
By some accounts, Wisconsin has among the very worst roads in the nation, and traffic fatalities are edging back up after years of decline. Making roads safer is not rocket science, but current politics might make it a challenge.
The U.S. Constitution may soon be on the chopping block, thanks to a reckless effort backed by some Republicans in Madison.
If that is what passes for normal in today’s dairy industry, then we need an entirely new normal. One place to start is strengthening Wisconsin’s prohibition on corporate farm ownership.
Walker and the DNR are trying quietly to put a band-aid over these disgusting and inhumane conditions which come straight from their growth-at-any-cost politics with low-key bottled water.
Proposed 10 percent cap on facilities and administrative costs for awards from the National Institutes of Health represents a dramatic reduction in the recovery of “indirect costs” universities incur to support research and to maintain safe and productive research environments.
Republican infighting stalls state budget meetings.
Veterans deserve to have the time on Veterans Day to spend it as they see fit as a reflection of our undying gratitude for their service.
Wisconsin last week became the first state in the country to submit a request for a waiver to allow for the drug testing of applicants for Medicaid.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck questions whether President Donald Trump could fire Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor leading the probe into Russian interference in the election.
Listening to former FBI director James Comey, it was easy to identify the key themes on which most analysis would converge.
A stone-faced military man of the sort America used to make statues to, James Mattis, secretary of defense, is tasked with settling fears among allies that the US is not as wacky and self-centered as Trump sounds.
Instead of seeing Trump for who he is, his supporters create an imaginary figure who does no wrong.
While Wisconsin’s wealthy continue to receive bountiful handouts, most other working families continue to struggle, working harder and harder just to get by.
Wisconsin water belongs to everyone and we need to do do a better job protecting the water and our rights to it.
If we fail to take responsibility for how we treat the weakest, most powerless members of our society who are incarcerated, we have ignored some of the most important and basic moral obligations of a civilized society.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on a Wisconsin bill that would penalize disruptive speech on campuses.
For boys, the president is providing a toxic road map to manhood.
A comparison of how each legislator’s school districts would fare under Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to increase state K-12 schools aids by $649 million and the different school-aid boost of Assembly Republicans is a fascinating example of “legislating by printout.”
The intractable problem with the transportation budget in Wisconsin is not that there is too little money for our needs. The problem is that politicians want to spend far more than Wisconsinites can afford. Toll roads will not fix that problem.
By some accounts, Wisconsin has among the very worst roads in the nation, and traffic fatalities are edging back up after years of decline. Making roads safer is not rocket science, but current politics might make it a challenge.
The U.S. Constitution may soon be on the chopping block, thanks to a reckless effort backed by some Republicans in Madison.
If that is what passes for normal in today’s dairy industry, then we need an entirely new normal. One place to start is strengthening Wisconsin’s prohibition on corporate farm ownership.
Walker and the DNR are trying quietly to put a band-aid over these disgusting and inhumane conditions which come straight from their growth-at-any-cost politics with low-key bottled water.
Proposed 10 percent cap on facilities and administrative costs for awards from the National Institutes of Health represents a dramatic reduction in the recovery of “indirect costs” universities incur to support research and to maintain safe and productive research environments.
Republican infighting stalls state budget meetings.
Veterans deserve to have the time on Veterans Day to spend it as they see fit as a reflection of our undying gratitude for their service.
Wisconsin last week became the first state in the country to submit a request for a waiver to allow for the drug testing of applicants for Medicaid.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck questions whether President Donald Trump could fire Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor leading the probe into Russian interference in the election.
Listening to former FBI director James Comey, it was easy to identify the key themes on which most analysis would converge.
A stone-faced military man of the sort America used to make statues to, James Mattis, secretary of defense, is tasked with settling fears among allies that the US is not as wacky and self-centered as Trump sounds.
Instead of seeing Trump for who he is, his supporters create an imaginary figure who does no wrong.
