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It took the courage and leadership of Gov. Thompson and a host of others to expand educational opportunity by going against the status quo education mindset.
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It took the courage and leadership of Gov. Thompson and a host of others to expand educational opportunity by going against the status quo education mindset.

Once leaders of both parties opposed it. Why did Republicans change?

Gerrymandering is one of myriad tools by Republicans bent on engineering a Republican government irrespective of the will of voters and the rule of law.

It seems as though the UW System is taking steps to bring down the surplus funds, but considering it still has $883.3 million cash on hand, there’s still plenty of room to improve.

There are some specific steps Wisconsin policymakers can — and should — take to improve its business startup rate, which once again anchored the bottom of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s annual index.

The revival in Berlin illustrates that even a city once torn by ideology and a massive wall, can get a recharge from new businesses and innovative people.

A recently released audit by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau found that “WEDC cannot be certain about the number of jobs actually created or retained as a result of any awards that ended.”

UW professor spent six years listening to rural Wisconsin residents express their frustrations.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the increased tension between Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans.

West Bend has been enjoying something of a retail renaissance in the past few years. Unfortunately, Wisconsin’s Unfair Sales Act, A.K.A. “Minimum Markup Law,” is preventing consumers to reap the benefits of such an upsurge in competition.

The percentage standard would set up a double-whammy; just as gas prices are increasing, so will the tax. The pain at the pump will be multiplied.

For more than two centuries the United States has been almost continually on a battlefield somewhere in the world.

We must talk about why we must fight harder for peace than we do for War.

Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus may go down with the USS Trump.

What with Trump’s budget ending Great Lakes Restoration and crucial, related Sea Grant funding, and cutting more clean water grants to states by 45%, it seems like a good day to acknowledge two literally sickening realities.

We encourage our Great Lakes neighbors to contact their elected representatives and ask them to restore adequate funding to EPA to protect our health and natural resources. It is a wise investment in our future.

Polar opposites back “mobility grants” to help unemployed move to get jobs.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on how a terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert will affect world politics.

Clarke’s extensive use of citations indicates that he did not intend to pass off his source material as his own work.

Clarke obviously intended to deceive exactly no one. He cites his sources abundantly and clearly in his thesis.

It took the courage and leadership of Gov. Thompson and a host of others to expand educational opportunity by going against the status quo education mindset.

Once leaders of both parties opposed it. Why did Republicans change?

Gerrymandering is one of myriad tools by Republicans bent on engineering a Republican government irrespective of the will of voters and the rule of law.

It seems as though the UW System is taking steps to bring down the surplus funds, but considering it still has $883.3 million cash on hand, there’s still plenty of room to improve.

There are some specific steps Wisconsin policymakers can — and should — take to improve its business startup rate, which once again anchored the bottom of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s annual index.

The revival in Berlin illustrates that even a city once torn by ideology and a massive wall, can get a recharge from new businesses and innovative people.

A recently released audit by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau found that “WEDC cannot be certain about the number of jobs actually created or retained as a result of any awards that ended.”

UW professor spent six years listening to rural Wisconsin residents express their frustrations.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on the increased tension between Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans.

West Bend has been enjoying something of a retail renaissance in the past few years. Unfortunately, Wisconsin’s Unfair Sales Act, A.K.A. “Minimum Markup Law,” is preventing consumers to reap the benefits of such an upsurge in competition.

The percentage standard would set up a double-whammy; just as gas prices are increasing, so will the tax. The pain at the pump will be multiplied.

For more than two centuries the United States has been almost continually on a battlefield somewhere in the world.

We must talk about why we must fight harder for peace than we do for War.

Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus may go down with the USS Trump.

What with Trump’s budget ending Great Lakes Restoration and crucial, related Sea Grant funding, and cutting more clean water grants to states by 45%, it seems like a good day to acknowledge two literally sickening realities.

We encourage our Great Lakes neighbors to contact their elected representatives and ask them to restore adequate funding to EPA to protect our health and natural resources. It is a wise investment in our future.

Polar opposites back “mobility grants” to help unemployed move to get jobs.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on how a terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert will affect world politics.

Clarke’s extensive use of citations indicates that he did not intend to pass off his source material as his own work.

Clarke obviously intended to deceive exactly no one. He cites his sources abundantly and clearly in his thesis.