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You may think this is the Passover and Easter season, but for motorists negotiating Wisconsin’s crumbling highways, there’s been something of a Festivus miracle.
The DNR’s latest press release basically dismisses CWD’s ever-worsening spread by noting most sick deer came from Wisconsin’s “southern farmland zone.” True, but disease rates again set records across that zone, which covers much of south-central to southwestern Wisconsin.
Members of Congress must continue to encourage middle-class homeownership, and a key part of promoting homeownership here in Wisconsin is the deductibility of local property taxes.
Agriculture, manufacturing and tourism are the holy trinity of the Wisconsin economy and may always be so, given the state’s rich traditions in all three sectors. Technology increasingly drives each of those sectors, however, and is slowly building an impressive standing of its own in terms of the jobs and value it adds to the Wisconsin economy
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, debate transpo taxes and the Walker factor. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Bill Gerrard was known as a “wheeler-dealer” in his long career in the Wisconsin political scene, sort of a throwback to an era when despite all odds things got done.
The UW Regents and the chancellors have performed well throughout the history of the university in protecting free speech and have fended off elected officials wanting to restrict that speech.
Bill proposes same oversight voters have over public school revenue.
I have no problems with accountability requirements. Indeed, the entire UW System already reports on a series of accountability measures that can be found here. But the devil is in the details when you start trying to figure out how to tie the distribution of dollars to these metrics.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin launched a website Thursday morning with the aim of bringing the dysfunction of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin into sharp focus.
The incumbent superintendent was vulnerable. Why the GOP stumbled.
Liberal fury could have helped unseat the conservative justice.
We’d better use the special elections and the big one in 2018 to surround President Trump with intelligent, knowledgeable people who can act as brakes on his worst impulses and weathervane views.
Milwaukee was once the healthiest city in the country. It won the award so many years in a row that they stopped the contest. That was in 30s and 40s. Things are much different now.
Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.
It seems that almost every day there is a new outrage in our national, state or local politics.
When less than 16% of voters show up on election day, we have a problem. Let’s try to fix that problem.
Kooyenga may be the right answer to one of the left’s strongest voices.
The Trump administration’s first budget proposes deep cuts to the federal government’s research and development funding. Since World War II, federal investment has been by far the nation’s most important source of funding for basic science and has been behind nearly every breakthrough technology of the postwar era. This funding supports hundreds of private and public universities nationwide, including in Wisconsin.
You may think this is the Passover and Easter season, but for motorists negotiating Wisconsin’s crumbling highways, there’s been something of a Festivus miracle.
The DNR’s latest press release basically dismisses CWD’s ever-worsening spread by noting most sick deer came from Wisconsin’s “southern farmland zone.” True, but disease rates again set records across that zone, which covers much of south-central to southwestern Wisconsin.
Members of Congress must continue to encourage middle-class homeownership, and a key part of promoting homeownership here in Wisconsin is the deductibility of local property taxes.
Agriculture, manufacturing and tourism are the holy trinity of the Wisconsin economy and may always be so, given the state’s rich traditions in all three sectors. Technology increasingly drives each of those sectors, however, and is slowly building an impressive standing of its own in terms of the jobs and value it adds to the Wisconsin economy
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, debate transpo taxes and the Walker factor. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Bill Gerrard was known as a “wheeler-dealer” in his long career in the Wisconsin political scene, sort of a throwback to an era when despite all odds things got done.
The UW Regents and the chancellors have performed well throughout the history of the university in protecting free speech and have fended off elected officials wanting to restrict that speech.
Bill proposes same oversight voters have over public school revenue.
I have no problems with accountability requirements. Indeed, the entire UW System already reports on a series of accountability measures that can be found here. But the devil is in the details when you start trying to figure out how to tie the distribution of dollars to these metrics.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin launched a website Thursday morning with the aim of bringing the dysfunction of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin into sharp focus.
The incumbent superintendent was vulnerable. Why the GOP stumbled.
Liberal fury could have helped unseat the conservative justice.
We’d better use the special elections and the big one in 2018 to surround President Trump with intelligent, knowledgeable people who can act as brakes on his worst impulses and weathervane views.
Milwaukee was once the healthiest city in the country. It won the award so many years in a row that they stopped the contest. That was in 30s and 40s. Things are much different now.
Wisconsin needs to solve its highway funding shortfall, and toll-financed Interstate modernization is a powerful tool for doing so.
It seems that almost every day there is a new outrage in our national, state or local politics.
When less than 16% of voters show up on election day, we have a problem. Let’s try to fix that problem.
Kooyenga may be the right answer to one of the left’s strongest voices.
The Trump administration’s first budget proposes deep cuts to the federal government’s research and development funding. Since World War II, federal investment has been by far the nation’s most important source of funding for basic science and has been behind nearly every breakthrough technology of the postwar era. This funding supports hundreds of private and public universities nationwide, including in Wisconsin.
