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Following the expensive rebuilding of the major interchanges at each end of this stretch of freeway — the Marquette and the Zoo (now under construction) — it makes no sense to leave a bottleneck of an outdated freeway between them.
Yesterday, eight more communities in Wisconsin voted by overwhelming margins that they want to see the U.S. Constitution amended to curb the role of money in politics. Monona had the highest margin, with 91 percent voting in favor.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck shares his two cents on why conservatives have a tough time winning local elections in Madison.
When adjusted for inflation, the state is spending more on roads today in the last two Thompson-era budgets.
Republican bill to end permits and training for concealed carry is dangerous.
If the Legislature does eventually allow anyone to carry a gun without so much as attending a single training session, they won’t be upholding the Constitution; they’ll just be committing yet another ill-considered, even reckless, act in their endless quest to appease gun extremists.
Records indicate that 3M could have easily paid whatever forfeiture Schimel had sought, and should not have been treated by Schimel as it it were a little startup business unfamiliar with Wisconsin rules, procedures and expectations.
Are Trump’s erratic behavior and low poll numbers a factor in this fight?
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between our politics and what goes on in Arizona nowadays.
From now on, there is no respite for the weary. You can run, but progressive condescension is going to find you. Politics get clicks, and clicks bring revenue. There is no incentive for all this new punditry to be accurate or fair.
March 24, 2017 is a date that Donald Trump and his gaggle of billionaire fat cats should long remember. It’s the date that Trump failed to deliver his first major deal to his ardent supporters.
Trump’s plan would cut the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion — roughly 18 percent of its entire budget. For the NIH, which funds the vast majority of basic science on diseases like Alzheimer’s, this would be the biggest budget cut in history.
One hundred years ago, on April 4, 1917, Wisconsin’s Republican senator, “Fighting Bob” La Follette, voted against entry into World War I and gave an impassioned and prophetic speech.
The order directs state agencies to track and post their record response times and, like last year’s order, gives procedural guidance that should make it easier for citizens to request and receive records.
Would require one-year wait for ex-legislators and legislative aides to become lobbyists.
At least 30 other states have enacted legislation that allows them to produce hemp for either research or commercial purposes. It’s time for Wisconsin to catch up.
A life is taken by gun violence every three days in the City of Milwaukee. If someone died every three days from a preventable disease, you’d better believe we’d be working to find a cure for that. So why are guns any different?
The last three biennial state budgets in Wisconsin saw the enactment of dramatic reductions in state spending on K-12 public education. As you may have guessed, deciding to spend less on education as a state has not meant that education is any less expensive today than it was four budgets ago.
It’s possible that the Trump-Ryan bill is merely mostly dead, rather than thoroughly demised.
Cutting federal funds to local law enforcement would probably do more to harm to public safety than illegal immigration does.
Following the expensive rebuilding of the major interchanges at each end of this stretch of freeway — the Marquette and the Zoo (now under construction) — it makes no sense to leave a bottleneck of an outdated freeway between them.
Yesterday, eight more communities in Wisconsin voted by overwhelming margins that they want to see the U.S. Constitution amended to curb the role of money in politics. Monona had the highest margin, with 91 percent voting in favor.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck shares his two cents on why conservatives have a tough time winning local elections in Madison.
When adjusted for inflation, the state is spending more on roads today in the last two Thompson-era budgets.
Republican bill to end permits and training for concealed carry is dangerous.
If the Legislature does eventually allow anyone to carry a gun without so much as attending a single training session, they won’t be upholding the Constitution; they’ll just be committing yet another ill-considered, even reckless, act in their endless quest to appease gun extremists.
Records indicate that 3M could have easily paid whatever forfeiture Schimel had sought, and should not have been treated by Schimel as it it were a little startup business unfamiliar with Wisconsin rules, procedures and expectations.
Are Trump’s erratic behavior and low poll numbers a factor in this fight?
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between our politics and what goes on in Arizona nowadays.
From now on, there is no respite for the weary. You can run, but progressive condescension is going to find you. Politics get clicks, and clicks bring revenue. There is no incentive for all this new punditry to be accurate or fair.
March 24, 2017 is a date that Donald Trump and his gaggle of billionaire fat cats should long remember. It’s the date that Trump failed to deliver his first major deal to his ardent supporters.
Trump’s plan would cut the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion — roughly 18 percent of its entire budget. For the NIH, which funds the vast majority of basic science on diseases like Alzheimer’s, this would be the biggest budget cut in history.
One hundred years ago, on April 4, 1917, Wisconsin’s Republican senator, “Fighting Bob” La Follette, voted against entry into World War I and gave an impassioned and prophetic speech.
The order directs state agencies to track and post their record response times and, like last year’s order, gives procedural guidance that should make it easier for citizens to request and receive records.
Would require one-year wait for ex-legislators and legislative aides to become lobbyists.
At least 30 other states have enacted legislation that allows them to produce hemp for either research or commercial purposes. It’s time for Wisconsin to catch up.
A life is taken by gun violence every three days in the City of Milwaukee. If someone died every three days from a preventable disease, you’d better believe we’d be working to find a cure for that. So why are guns any different?
The last three biennial state budgets in Wisconsin saw the enactment of dramatic reductions in state spending on K-12 public education. As you may have guessed, deciding to spend less on education as a state has not meant that education is any less expensive today than it was four budgets ago.
It’s possible that the Trump-Ryan bill is merely mostly dead, rather than thoroughly demised.
Cutting federal funds to local law enforcement would probably do more to harm to public safety than illegal immigration does.
