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The new state budget wasn’t ideal but it did do two things: Direct payments will continue to go to providers for the next year and early education is finally funded with state dollars in the Wisconsin budget.
We do not think Republicans can ignore the full-page advertisement in today’s Wall Street Journal addressed to the president from the Dairy Farmers of America. The farmer-owned cooperative asserts that dairy farms need immigrants to stay in business.
We proposed three separate sets of dates in May and June to host an NLRB-supervised election. The union declined to schedule a vote.
Amid all the rancor about immigration and just who is an American these days, Wisconsin is commemorating the anniversary of when thousands of Hmong refugees came to the state.
The NGO network is the beating and fraudulently bleeding heart of a massive movement to seize all power for the progressive left.
The case of Epstein, Trump, and American double standards
David Couper, Madison’s former longtime police chief turned Episcopal priest, has organized a vigil in downtown Madison on Aug. 2 to protest Donald Trump’s cruelty.
Evers, a mild-mannered former science teacher and school administrator, was the antithesis to the arrogant, constantly calculating Walker. And to the self-aggrandizing politics of the Trump era.
Much-lauded Wisconsin tourism gains helped greatly by drawn-out recovery funding.
For too long, the state Legislature has played political games with our children’s education while spouting hollow rhetoric about being “pro-family” and “pro-education.” The truth is laid bare in the numbers: we are failing our students, our teachers, and our communities through willful neglect and misplaced priorities.
Trump and Wisconsin congressional Republicans have betrayed rural Wisconsin and its farmers.
Lawmakers have the opportunity to pass the “Safe Summer” legislative package, a commonsense, evidence-based set of reforms designed to save lives.
Across America, workers deal with laws built for a long-gone economy. A new “portable benefits” proposal could offer some of Wisconsin’s 400,000 independent workers a chance to close the gap.
Risser’s new book, “Forward for the People,” makes that clear as he recounts seven decades of legislative battles ranging from making contraceptives legal for unmarried adults to leading the Democrat revolt against GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on union workers with his Act 10.
Condemning the hypocrisy of
Democrats supporting Haiti voter id funding while opposing U.S. voter ID laws.
UW-Eau Claire suspended a professor for flipping over a lit table the College Republicans set up on election day in April. Must sit out a whole year, without pay. Won’t be promoted to full professor.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at recent political violence and suggest some ways to end it. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Evers’ decision not to seek a third term can serve as an example to Democrats across the country that now is the time to embrace change.
Tony Evers has had enough and that’s not a good thing for Democrats.
Construct a Wisconsin congressional map that bests Merkalto’s Take 18.
The new state budget wasn’t ideal but it did do two things: Direct payments will continue to go to providers for the next year and early education is finally funded with state dollars in the Wisconsin budget.
We do not think Republicans can ignore the full-page advertisement in today’s Wall Street Journal addressed to the president from the Dairy Farmers of America. The farmer-owned cooperative asserts that dairy farms need immigrants to stay in business.
We proposed three separate sets of dates in May and June to host an NLRB-supervised election. The union declined to schedule a vote.
Amid all the rancor about immigration and just who is an American these days, Wisconsin is commemorating the anniversary of when thousands of Hmong refugees came to the state.
The NGO network is the beating and fraudulently bleeding heart of a massive movement to seize all power for the progressive left.
The case of Epstein, Trump, and American double standards
David Couper, Madison’s former longtime police chief turned Episcopal priest, has organized a vigil in downtown Madison on Aug. 2 to protest Donald Trump’s cruelty.
Evers, a mild-mannered former science teacher and school administrator, was the antithesis to the arrogant, constantly calculating Walker. And to the self-aggrandizing politics of the Trump era.
Much-lauded Wisconsin tourism gains helped greatly by drawn-out recovery funding.
For too long, the state Legislature has played political games with our children’s education while spouting hollow rhetoric about being “pro-family” and “pro-education.” The truth is laid bare in the numbers: we are failing our students, our teachers, and our communities through willful neglect and misplaced priorities.
Trump and Wisconsin congressional Republicans have betrayed rural Wisconsin and its farmers.
Lawmakers have the opportunity to pass the “Safe Summer” legislative package, a commonsense, evidence-based set of reforms designed to save lives.
Across America, workers deal with laws built for a long-gone economy. A new “portable benefits” proposal could offer some of Wisconsin’s 400,000 independent workers a chance to close the gap.
Risser’s new book, “Forward for the People,” makes that clear as he recounts seven decades of legislative battles ranging from making contraceptives legal for unmarried adults to leading the Democrat revolt against GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on union workers with his Act 10.
Condemning the hypocrisy of
Democrats supporting Haiti voter id funding while opposing U.S. voter ID laws.
UW-Eau Claire suspended a professor for flipping over a lit table the College Republicans set up on election day in April. Must sit out a whole year, without pay. Won’t be promoted to full professor.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at recent political violence and suggest some ways to end it. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Evers’ decision not to seek a third term can serve as an example to Democrats across the country that now is the time to embrace change.
Tony Evers has had enough and that’s not a good thing for Democrats.
Construct a Wisconsin congressional map that bests Merkalto’s Take 18.
