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U.S. Hemp Roundtable predicts that the ban, which goes into effect in December, could wipe out 95% of the $28.4 billion hemp industry with dire consequences for farmers and business owners nationwide.
You can’t solve an economic problem with partisan politics.
Extreme wealth throughout the country’s history has equaled immense political power. And now we’ve created a legion of billionaires who, let’s admit, have immense power over the lives of the great mass of Americans.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has signed on as a cosponsor of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s “Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza” resolution, which would have the United States formally acknowledge that the Israeli government has committed genocide in Gaza.
There’s only one Tommy who was a 20-year Assembly member, four-term governor, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, health-care executive and business consultant, candidate for President and U.S. Senate and former president of the Universities of Wisconsin.
Our students deserve real accountability, especially those who are most at risk of slipping through the cracks.
Public education is laying on a table in a 20th-century operating room. What we need is a liberation of learning. What public education needs is universal school choice.
While most Americans were focused on ending the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history, Congress slipped a provision into the funding bill that could devastate Wisconsin’s burgeoning hemp industry.
Protecting farmworker health through climate-responsive labor standards is not only a moral imperative, it’s essential for the resilience of Wisconsin’s agricultural future.
Zohran Mamdani was just elected in one of the few places in the country that still allows a once-common practice called fusion voting, a practice that made Abraham Lincoln’s presidency possible.
That orange glow you see on the horizon may be Donald Trump setting in the west.
Imagine a string of pocket districts along the lake and river: each with its own identity, but connected by transit, trails, and curated experiences.
Water guzzling, jobs costing, high tech monsters or the future of communications and business. Those extremes can all be found in news coverage and discussions of data centers.
We can support decent conditions in our prisons and still remember who the justice system was built to protect.
What began as an exchange between individual researchers has become a partnership that reflects how science can advance discovery, education and innovation on a global scale.
Dramatically fewer University of Wisconsin System students are pursuing degrees in the humanities — including English, history and the arts — than a decade ago.
Although the new cut scores get the blame for inflating school and district performance, the real culprit is the practice of category weighting.
Our little neighborhood bar, the Harmony Bar & Grill, attempted to work with the state’s energy efficiency program, Focus on Energy, as we upgraded refrigeration, HVAC, insulation and advanced energy controls to maximal EnergyStar standards. At every turn, Focus blocked these Inflation Reduction Act-eligible energy efficiency investments.
Plastics are not just a pollution problem — they are a fossil-fuel problem, a public-health problem, and a climate problem.
Expressing frustration or disappointment is natural, but we must avoid rhetoric that inadvertently undermines our own causes, provides ammunition for those who would use our words against us, and could lead to our own peril.
U.S. Hemp Roundtable predicts that the ban, which goes into effect in December, could wipe out 95% of the $28.4 billion hemp industry with dire consequences for farmers and business owners nationwide.
You can’t solve an economic problem with partisan politics.
Extreme wealth throughout the country’s history has equaled immense political power. And now we’ve created a legion of billionaires who, let’s admit, have immense power over the lives of the great mass of Americans.
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has signed on as a cosponsor of U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s “Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza” resolution, which would have the United States formally acknowledge that the Israeli government has committed genocide in Gaza.
There’s only one Tommy who was a 20-year Assembly member, four-term governor, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, health-care executive and business consultant, candidate for President and U.S. Senate and former president of the Universities of Wisconsin.
Our students deserve real accountability, especially those who are most at risk of slipping through the cracks.
Public education is laying on a table in a 20th-century operating room. What we need is a liberation of learning. What public education needs is universal school choice.
While most Americans were focused on ending the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history, Congress slipped a provision into the funding bill that could devastate Wisconsin’s burgeoning hemp industry.
Protecting farmworker health through climate-responsive labor standards is not only a moral imperative, it’s essential for the resilience of Wisconsin’s agricultural future.
Zohran Mamdani was just elected in one of the few places in the country that still allows a once-common practice called fusion voting, a practice that made Abraham Lincoln’s presidency possible.
That orange glow you see on the horizon may be Donald Trump setting in the west.
Imagine a string of pocket districts along the lake and river: each with its own identity, but connected by transit, trails, and curated experiences.
Water guzzling, jobs costing, high tech monsters or the future of communications and business. Those extremes can all be found in news coverage and discussions of data centers.
We can support decent conditions in our prisons and still remember who the justice system was built to protect.
What began as an exchange between individual researchers has become a partnership that reflects how science can advance discovery, education and innovation on a global scale.
Dramatically fewer University of Wisconsin System students are pursuing degrees in the humanities — including English, history and the arts — than a decade ago.
Although the new cut scores get the blame for inflating school and district performance, the real culprit is the practice of category weighting.
Our little neighborhood bar, the Harmony Bar & Grill, attempted to work with the state’s energy efficiency program, Focus on Energy, as we upgraded refrigeration, HVAC, insulation and advanced energy controls to maximal EnergyStar standards. At every turn, Focus blocked these Inflation Reduction Act-eligible energy efficiency investments.
Plastics are not just a pollution problem — they are a fossil-fuel problem, a public-health problem, and a climate problem.
Expressing frustration or disappointment is natural, but we must avoid rhetoric that inadvertently undermines our own causes, provides ammunition for those who would use our words against us, and could lead to our own peril.
