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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, is not leaving anything to chance.

Our families, farmers and small businesses deserve leaders who speak the truth and fight for them.

In Milwaukee, we will not tolerate law enforcement agents, local or federal, using unreasonable force to prevent us from invoking our rights to assemble, to speak or to vote.

Just as she was on the way out the door as director of national intelligence this month, Tulsi Gabbard dropped several major bombshells.

For more than 30 years, I have worked tirelessly along with thousands of other public health and climate scientists to understand the very real public health threats posed by burning fossil fuels like coal.

We could be facing the final week of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund.

They opened the Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago this week in a ceremony that recalled the years when American presidents served with dignity.

Wisconsin truly is America’s Dairyland, and we are proud of it! Our state is home to 5,000 dairy farms — the most in the country!

For thousands of families across south-central Wisconsin, the end of the school year doesn’t feel like a celebration — it feels like a strain.

As Wisconsin’s largest fully sworn sheriff’s office, we operate with 591 staff and manage nearly 1,000 jail residents across four divisions: field, security, support and administrative services. … Our budget priorities focus on safety and infrastructure.

Wisconsin can choose to invest in children during the years when development is most rapid and intervention is most effective, or we can continue paying far higher costs later through remedial education, mental health services, workforce shortages and other social support. The bill does not disappear. It arrives later, with interest.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. July 4th is a bipartisan treasured national holiday celebrating the end of British colonial rule and our independence. America is based

Year after year, the wealth of John Menard kept growing. The founder and sole owner of the home improvement chain bearing his name saw his personal net worth grow from $775 million in 1996 to $5.2 billion in 2007, according to Forbes magazine. That grew to $16.6 billion in 2021 and $22.9 billion in 2024.

Article 1, section 14 of the Wisconsin Constitution states: “All lands within the state are declared to be allodial, and feudal tenures are prohibited.”

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the Democratic contenders for governor as the primary race moves into high gear. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

We can do the same for the entire United States. We can start working now to channel political anxiety into rebuilding the foundations of our democracy so that it offers free and fair elections for all candidates of every party.

We will never know the full extent of the harms (or the benefits) of the COVID-19 injections. But we do know that federal health officials were aware that serious harm was being done within months of them granting Emergency Use Authorization. We also know that those same officials turned a blind eye toward the safety signals that were screaming at them, but they refused to warn the public.

Johnson’s attacks on vaccines have added fuel to the fire that Trump’s health secretary Robert Kennedy started.

Elections should be determined by citizens evaluating candidates on their merits — not by political insiders or pundits questioning whether a particular gender is overrepresented in a race.

Majority of states now have top rate below 5 percent

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, is not leaving anything to chance.

Our families, farmers and small businesses deserve leaders who speak the truth and fight for them.

In Milwaukee, we will not tolerate law enforcement agents, local or federal, using unreasonable force to prevent us from invoking our rights to assemble, to speak or to vote.

Just as she was on the way out the door as director of national intelligence this month, Tulsi Gabbard dropped several major bombshells.

For more than 30 years, I have worked tirelessly along with thousands of other public health and climate scientists to understand the very real public health threats posed by burning fossil fuels like coal.

We could be facing the final week of the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund.

They opened the Obama Presidential Center on the south side of Chicago this week in a ceremony that recalled the years when American presidents served with dignity.

Wisconsin truly is America’s Dairyland, and we are proud of it! Our state is home to 5,000 dairy farms — the most in the country!

For thousands of families across south-central Wisconsin, the end of the school year doesn’t feel like a celebration — it feels like a strain.

As Wisconsin’s largest fully sworn sheriff’s office, we operate with 591 staff and manage nearly 1,000 jail residents across four divisions: field, security, support and administrative services. … Our budget priorities focus on safety and infrastructure.

Wisconsin can choose to invest in children during the years when development is most rapid and intervention is most effective, or we can continue paying far higher costs later through remedial education, mental health services, workforce shortages and other social support. The bill does not disappear. It arrives later, with interest.

The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. July 4th is a bipartisan treasured national holiday celebrating the end of British colonial rule and our independence. America is based

Year after year, the wealth of John Menard kept growing. The founder and sole owner of the home improvement chain bearing his name saw his personal net worth grow from $775 million in 1996 to $5.2 billion in 2007, according to Forbes magazine. That grew to $16.6 billion in 2021 and $22.9 billion in 2024.

Article 1, section 14 of the Wisconsin Constitution states: “All lands within the state are declared to be allodial, and feudal tenures are prohibited.”

The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, handicap the Democratic contenders for governor as the primary race moves into high gear. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

We can do the same for the entire United States. We can start working now to channel political anxiety into rebuilding the foundations of our democracy so that it offers free and fair elections for all candidates of every party.

We will never know the full extent of the harms (or the benefits) of the COVID-19 injections. But we do know that federal health officials were aware that serious harm was being done within months of them granting Emergency Use Authorization. We also know that those same officials turned a blind eye toward the safety signals that were screaming at them, but they refused to warn the public.

Johnson’s attacks on vaccines have added fuel to the fire that Trump’s health secretary Robert Kennedy started.

Elections should be determined by citizens evaluating candidates on their merits — not by political insiders or pundits questioning whether a particular gender is overrepresented in a race.

Majority of states now have top rate below 5 percent