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Trust is everything. Rebuilding it is a sacred duty. So it is stunning to see the allegations aimed at former Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl.
Following initial progress, staffing vacancies are again rising in Wisconsin prisons. Improving training, safety and workplace culture would help retain officers, some say.
One City Schools embrace innovation and are a model of best practices in education from around the world. Yes, it is obviously a “whatever it takes” approach to ensure kids learn. But the approaches included in the curriculum have proven track records of success.
The debate in Waukesha will occur everywhere.
While all the public’s attention has been focused on the congressional machinations over the budget, with a few brief distractions like bunker-buster bombs being dropped on Iran, the administration is busy quietly dismantling programs that had positioned America for the future.
Amid financial problems, staff layoffs, board leadership questioned.
Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.
We are putting in the minimum, and this budget keeps us on the lowest tier as a state for investment in our public schools and our young children compared to other states. Meanwhile, we continue to be among the biggest spenders on our juvenile offenders.
Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish.
We Energies’ new natural gas plants will meet all local, state and federal environmental and health regulations.
Why legacy civil rights organizations need you now more than ever.
Of Milwaukee’s three Socialist Party mayors, the longest-serving was Dan Hoan. Elected to six terms over 24 years, Hoan was nationally recognized as an exceptional mayor.
Recall efforts against village board trustee Bill Landgraf gains needed signatures
City officials knew about the referendum requirement “from the beginning” but kept it hidden through 8 years of planning.
In Milwaukee alone, Target has contributed nearly $250,000 in guest-directed giving locally across areas like education, health, civil rights, human services, and youth-programs since 2020.
The similarities between what Project 2025 proposed and what Trump’s second administration has unleashed on Americans is striking, but now is not the time to be complacent and simply hope for change.
As federal agents continue their campaign of cruelty and fear, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said automation and “34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program” would fill the farm workforce gaps.
For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their
In the early hours of July 3, in the shadow of Trump’s ‘beautiful bill,’ Wisconsin passed a budget that exemplifies what compromise looks like.
We all knew this day was coming—the day when the radical Wisconsin Supreme Court would transfer virtually all legislative prerogative to the state’s collectivist bureaucracy.
Trust is everything. Rebuilding it is a sacred duty. So it is stunning to see the allegations aimed at former Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl.
Following initial progress, staffing vacancies are again rising in Wisconsin prisons. Improving training, safety and workplace culture would help retain officers, some say.
One City Schools embrace innovation and are a model of best practices in education from around the world. Yes, it is obviously a “whatever it takes” approach to ensure kids learn. But the approaches included in the curriculum have proven track records of success.
The debate in Waukesha will occur everywhere.
While all the public’s attention has been focused on the congressional machinations over the budget, with a few brief distractions like bunker-buster bombs being dropped on Iran, the administration is busy quietly dismantling programs that had positioned America for the future.
Amid financial problems, staff layoffs, board leadership questioned.
Leaders in Madison and Washington diverge on tax policy, Medicaid, partisanship.
We are putting in the minimum, and this budget keeps us on the lowest tier as a state for investment in our public schools and our young children compared to other states. Meanwhile, we continue to be among the biggest spenders on our juvenile offenders.
Unfinished business includes ways of blocking corrosive ideas and permitting freedom to flourish.
We Energies’ new natural gas plants will meet all local, state and federal environmental and health regulations.
Why legacy civil rights organizations need you now more than ever.
Of Milwaukee’s three Socialist Party mayors, the longest-serving was Dan Hoan. Elected to six terms over 24 years, Hoan was nationally recognized as an exceptional mayor.
Recall efforts against village board trustee Bill Landgraf gains needed signatures
City officials knew about the referendum requirement “from the beginning” but kept it hidden through 8 years of planning.
In Milwaukee alone, Target has contributed nearly $250,000 in guest-directed giving locally across areas like education, health, civil rights, human services, and youth-programs since 2020.
The similarities between what Project 2025 proposed and what Trump’s second administration has unleashed on Americans is striking, but now is not the time to be complacent and simply hope for change.
As federal agents continue their campaign of cruelty and fear, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said automation and “34 million able-bodied adults in our Medicaid program” would fill the farm workforce gaps.
For more than five decades, the Almanac of American Politics has set the standard for political reference books. In September, the Almanac will be publishing its 2026 edition, with more than 2,000 pages offering fully updated chapters on all 435 House members and their
In the early hours of July 3, in the shadow of Trump’s ‘beautiful bill,’ Wisconsin passed a budget that exemplifies what compromise looks like.
We all knew this day was coming—the day when the radical Wisconsin Supreme Court would transfer virtually all legislative prerogative to the state’s collectivist bureaucracy.
