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While it seems likely that the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program will be dormant from July 1, 2026 until the next budget in 2027, I am confident that we can come together next year and get this done.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is tiptoeing around reform ideas. A suggestion that rules require justices to recuse from cases if big donors are involved is a good one. Also, justices should not be governed only by their own consciences on recusal. A majority of the court should be able to force a justice to step aside.
Wisconsin has seen far too many cases where dangerous offenders were released, given low bail, placed on signature bond, or allowed to remain in the community despite serious pending charges or supervision concerns, only for more innocent people to be hurt or killed.
Wisconsin is ensnared in a fiscal trap of its own making, a consequence of relying on the taxation of human frailty to fund the apparatus of state government.
Nazis, deadbeats and terrorist sympathizers get party blessing.
Yes, it can and should include advocating for legislation.
Recent ads for candidates add life – finally – to a very sleepy campaign.
Let’s ensure AI innovation is accessible and pro-worker, and put more money in peoples’ pockets for the transition.
June is recognized as Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the mental health challenges faced by men and encouraging open conversations about emotional well-being.
Classrooms should focus on teaching math, science, reading, and critical thinking skills that prepare students for success, leaving the raising of children to the parents who love them most.
We’ve become a country that thinks nothing of spending tens of billions fighting unnecessary wars, but we can’t find it within us to create a healthcare system that could benefit every American, rich or poor, old or young.
While St. Mary’s nurses have been struggling, we’ve seen union nurses at Meriter and UW Health make significant gains in staffing and retention. Nurses throughout our hospital have raised concerns repeatedly with hospital administration through appropriate internal channels. However, our pleas for change have fallen on deaf ears.
Barnes has a history of focusing on farm country.
Farming is starting to define the Wisconsin governor’s race. That’s probably a good thing for Tom Tiffany because he actually grew up on one.
Tiffany and Van Orden, who helped inflict Trump’s disastrous policies on rural Wisconsinites, are hoping Trump’s star power will propel them to victory.
When President Trump came to Chippewa Falls last week, he announced $425 million in Defense Production Act funding to extend the lives of 13 U.S. coal plants.
More than 50,000 combat-wounded veterans who were medically retired before serving 20 years have their Defense Department retirement pay cut, dollar for dollar, by their VA disability check.
Not even home baked goods are safe. If you want to make bread without a license, you had better not have an LLC.
The FBI first designated the term “nihilistic violent extremism” in a 2025 incident involving a Waukesha teenager who murdered his parents as part of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump. Nihilistic violent extremism is the idea that nothing but violence matters — it isn’t bound by ideology in most instances.
Don Millis, the new chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, says only potential orders from judges in pending cases could change the rules for the next two partisan elections — the Aug. 11 primary and the Nov. 3 general election.
While it seems likely that the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program will be dormant from July 1, 2026 until the next budget in 2027, I am confident that we can come together next year and get this done.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is tiptoeing around reform ideas. A suggestion that rules require justices to recuse from cases if big donors are involved is a good one. Also, justices should not be governed only by their own consciences on recusal. A majority of the court should be able to force a justice to step aside.
Wisconsin has seen far too many cases where dangerous offenders were released, given low bail, placed on signature bond, or allowed to remain in the community despite serious pending charges or supervision concerns, only for more innocent people to be hurt or killed.
Wisconsin is ensnared in a fiscal trap of its own making, a consequence of relying on the taxation of human frailty to fund the apparatus of state government.
Nazis, deadbeats and terrorist sympathizers get party blessing.
Yes, it can and should include advocating for legislation.
Recent ads for candidates add life – finally – to a very sleepy campaign.
Let’s ensure AI innovation is accessible and pro-worker, and put more money in peoples’ pockets for the transition.
June is recognized as Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness about the mental health challenges faced by men and encouraging open conversations about emotional well-being.
Classrooms should focus on teaching math, science, reading, and critical thinking skills that prepare students for success, leaving the raising of children to the parents who love them most.
We’ve become a country that thinks nothing of spending tens of billions fighting unnecessary wars, but we can’t find it within us to create a healthcare system that could benefit every American, rich or poor, old or young.
While St. Mary’s nurses have been struggling, we’ve seen union nurses at Meriter and UW Health make significant gains in staffing and retention. Nurses throughout our hospital have raised concerns repeatedly with hospital administration through appropriate internal channels. However, our pleas for change have fallen on deaf ears.
Barnes has a history of focusing on farm country.
Farming is starting to define the Wisconsin governor’s race. That’s probably a good thing for Tom Tiffany because he actually grew up on one.
Tiffany and Van Orden, who helped inflict Trump’s disastrous policies on rural Wisconsinites, are hoping Trump’s star power will propel them to victory.
When President Trump came to Chippewa Falls last week, he announced $425 million in Defense Production Act funding to extend the lives of 13 U.S. coal plants.
More than 50,000 combat-wounded veterans who were medically retired before serving 20 years have their Defense Department retirement pay cut, dollar for dollar, by their VA disability check.
Not even home baked goods are safe. If you want to make bread without a license, you had better not have an LLC.
The FBI first designated the term “nihilistic violent extremism” in a 2025 incident involving a Waukesha teenager who murdered his parents as part of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump. Nihilistic violent extremism is the idea that nothing but violence matters — it isn’t bound by ideology in most instances.
Don Millis, the new chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, says only potential orders from judges in pending cases could change the rules for the next two partisan elections — the Aug. 11 primary and the Nov. 3 general election.
