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Our Safe Communities Act contains two critical pieces — uniform, core principles regarding when force is used that have been recommended by law enforcement, and an updated annual training standard that includes use of force options, emphasizing de-escalation.
Any discussion of poverty in Milwaukee has been stunted by the decades-old battle that pits powerful conservative advocates of school vouchers against the once powerful liberal defenders of public education.
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, believes that citizens of his state who use public services should have to submit to drug testing. And anyone who refuses to be tested should be turned away.
Dayton opposes preempting local sick pay ordinances.
Our budget helps to build a strong workforce by investing in student success. We reform welfare to reward work. And we make government more accountable so we can continue to lower the tax burden on our hard-working taxpayers.
Millions of Wisconsinites fill their gas tanks each day, blissfully unaware that the cost per gallon they pay is artificially inflated by state law.
If dairy producers cannot find the labor they need, our nation must either import workers or import dairy products from foreign countries.
Second straight year Gov. Scott Walker left the podium without taking questions.
The youths at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons need a lot more help from the Legislature than they are getting.
I get the motive behind proposals in the Legislature to punish those who would use violence to disrupt speakers on the state’s public university campuses. But I’m also very leery of government efforts to control speech.
Focus on winning the 2018 elections with a Democratic message of economic security and social justice. Restore checks and balances. Vote.
This Never Trumper sees no impeachable offense.
The right-wing extremist’s disregard for the Constitution is well documented, and now he’s reportedly joining Trump’s DHS.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Kanavas, analyze the possible budget end game for transportation funding. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Does gerrymandering or Democrats’ urban density tilt map? U.S. Supreme Court could decide.
While his apologists write the Comey flap off to Trump’s “inexperience,” the exact opposite is true: It’s the president’s lifetime of experience wriggling out of trouble that has found him in it this time.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Donald Trump can be taken out just like Richard Nixon.
Clarke’s new role will be as a public liaison between DHS and police agencies, which is really amazing considering his poor relations with the Milwaukee Police Department and even his own deputies.
I can think of few men more uniquely unqualified to liaise with local law enforcement at this juncture, when the agency is ramping up immigration raids, filling detention centers and carrying out deportations as fast as possible.
A state measure that would require placing sexual offenders in their home counties may make sense. What doesn’t is enacting it by sneaking it into the state budget.
Our Safe Communities Act contains two critical pieces — uniform, core principles regarding when force is used that have been recommended by law enforcement, and an updated annual training standard that includes use of force options, emphasizing de-escalation.
Any discussion of poverty in Milwaukee has been stunted by the decades-old battle that pits powerful conservative advocates of school vouchers against the once powerful liberal defenders of public education.
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, believes that citizens of his state who use public services should have to submit to drug testing. And anyone who refuses to be tested should be turned away.
Dayton opposes preempting local sick pay ordinances.
Our budget helps to build a strong workforce by investing in student success. We reform welfare to reward work. And we make government more accountable so we can continue to lower the tax burden on our hard-working taxpayers.
Millions of Wisconsinites fill their gas tanks each day, blissfully unaware that the cost per gallon they pay is artificially inflated by state law.
If dairy producers cannot find the labor they need, our nation must either import workers or import dairy products from foreign countries.
Second straight year Gov. Scott Walker left the podium without taking questions.
The youths at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons need a lot more help from the Legislature than they are getting.
I get the motive behind proposals in the Legislature to punish those who would use violence to disrupt speakers on the state’s public university campuses. But I’m also very leery of government efforts to control speech.
Focus on winning the 2018 elections with a Democratic message of economic security and social justice. Restore checks and balances. Vote.
This Never Trumper sees no impeachable offense.
The right-wing extremist’s disregard for the Constitution is well documented, and now he’s reportedly joining Trump’s DHS.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Kanavas, analyze the possible budget end game for transportation funding. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Does gerrymandering or Democrats’ urban density tilt map? U.S. Supreme Court could decide.
While his apologists write the Comey flap off to Trump’s “inexperience,” the exact opposite is true: It’s the president’s lifetime of experience wriggling out of trouble that has found him in it this time.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Donald Trump can be taken out just like Richard Nixon.
Clarke’s new role will be as a public liaison between DHS and police agencies, which is really amazing considering his poor relations with the Milwaukee Police Department and even his own deputies.
I can think of few men more uniquely unqualified to liaise with local law enforcement at this juncture, when the agency is ramping up immigration raids, filling detention centers and carrying out deportations as fast as possible.
A state measure that would require placing sexual offenders in their home counties may make sense. What doesn’t is enacting it by sneaking it into the state budget.
