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A simmering feud is emerging in Wisconsin’s higher-education “family.” Settling it in a way that helps all types of students, from those seeking job-related certificates to those pursuing four-year or graduate degrees, is a job that will fall to the next governor and Legislature.
Are the current maps partisan? Anti-competitive? Supreme Court must decide.
The odds are pretty good that after all the dust settles in November we’ll have some form of divided government in Wisconsin, just as we do now.
Our campaign is powered by regular folks, not the rich.
James Wigderson is a conservative Republican who doesn’t support Donald Trump. That has turned him into an embattled Don Quixote of the right, tilting at MAGA windmills and defending traditional conservative policies.
News coverage of gun violence should not be stripped of its visceral reality.
My son donated his liver, both kidneys, and his heart. Somewhere out there, people are alive today because of who my son was — because of the kind of young man he chose to be, even at 18 years old.
If economic pressures and other realities make it difficult to persuade voters that things are going well, Republicans likely will turn to a different argument: Things may not be perfect, they might say, but Democrats would only make them worse. Republicans in Ohio are already testing versions of that argument in the state’s closely watched Senate race.
Most Americans feel the economy has gotten worse, and are finding it harder to balance their budget as they buy groceries and gas and pay for housing, insurance and healthcare.
The passing of King Harald V on Aug. 28 was a sad day for Norway. His son now King Haakon VIII will take the throne.
Crowley and Tiffany are essentially punting on the biggest affordability issue in the state and nation: Health costs are projected to rise by more than 9.5% in 2027.
Crowley’s tech contributions neutralize a Dem talking point.
For Wisconsin, the key question is not whether the digital economy should grow. It is who pays for that growth, who benefits and who bears the risk.
If you don’t happen to live in one of the 72 Wisconsin school districts that went to referendum last spring, begging local property taxpayers to cover basic costs the state is not meeting, you might get the impression from Evers’ valedictory tour that he is leaving office having solved the urgent problem of chronic underfunding of Wisconsin schools.
Repair alone cannot resolve every harm; punishment alone can never restore what was lost.
America, that fabled nation with the shining light on the hill, whose Statue of Liberty welcomed the world’s tired and poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free, has become among the world’s most cruel.
If we want to address transportation, housing affordability, homelessness, and economic opportunity effectively, we must embrace a simple truth: we rise or fall together.
Twenty-five years later, our divisions can feel deeper and more personal than they did before. I cannot fix that, but I am not helpless. I can do something smaller, but nevertheless important. I can make sure my daughters know what happened on September 11, 2001.
Milwaukee spent years reducing teen births. America’s falling fertility rate is no reason to reverse that progress.
The ERA Coalition marked Steinem’s passing with an announcement: “The most fitting way to honor her is to finish what she started: to see the ERA finally recognized as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
A simmering feud is emerging in Wisconsin’s higher-education “family.” Settling it in a way that helps all types of students, from those seeking job-related certificates to those pursuing four-year or graduate degrees, is a job that will fall to the next governor and Legislature.
Are the current maps partisan? Anti-competitive? Supreme Court must decide.
The odds are pretty good that after all the dust settles in November we’ll have some form of divided government in Wisconsin, just as we do now.
Our campaign is powered by regular folks, not the rich.
James Wigderson is a conservative Republican who doesn’t support Donald Trump. That has turned him into an embattled Don Quixote of the right, tilting at MAGA windmills and defending traditional conservative policies.
News coverage of gun violence should not be stripped of its visceral reality.
My son donated his liver, both kidneys, and his heart. Somewhere out there, people are alive today because of who my son was — because of the kind of young man he chose to be, even at 18 years old.
If economic pressures and other realities make it difficult to persuade voters that things are going well, Republicans likely will turn to a different argument: Things may not be perfect, they might say, but Democrats would only make them worse. Republicans in Ohio are already testing versions of that argument in the state’s closely watched Senate race.
Most Americans feel the economy has gotten worse, and are finding it harder to balance their budget as they buy groceries and gas and pay for housing, insurance and healthcare.
The passing of King Harald V on Aug. 28 was a sad day for Norway. His son now King Haakon VIII will take the throne.
Crowley and Tiffany are essentially punting on the biggest affordability issue in the state and nation: Health costs are projected to rise by more than 9.5% in 2027.
Crowley’s tech contributions neutralize a Dem talking point.
For Wisconsin, the key question is not whether the digital economy should grow. It is who pays for that growth, who benefits and who bears the risk.
If you don’t happen to live in one of the 72 Wisconsin school districts that went to referendum last spring, begging local property taxpayers to cover basic costs the state is not meeting, you might get the impression from Evers’ valedictory tour that he is leaving office having solved the urgent problem of chronic underfunding of Wisconsin schools.
Repair alone cannot resolve every harm; punishment alone can never restore what was lost.
America, that fabled nation with the shining light on the hill, whose Statue of Liberty welcomed the world’s tired and poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free, has become among the world’s most cruel.
If we want to address transportation, housing affordability, homelessness, and economic opportunity effectively, we must embrace a simple truth: we rise or fall together.
Twenty-five years later, our divisions can feel deeper and more personal than they did before. I cannot fix that, but I am not helpless. I can do something smaller, but nevertheless important. I can make sure my daughters know what happened on September 11, 2001.
Milwaukee spent years reducing teen births. America’s falling fertility rate is no reason to reverse that progress.
The ERA Coalition marked Steinem’s passing with an announcement: “The most fitting way to honor her is to finish what she started: to see the ERA finally recognized as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
