24 states allow citizen initiatives to create and pass constitutional amendments and laws.

One of the reasons current politicians drag their feet on direct democracy is that they would lose the lobby money if citizens were making policy decisions instead of them. Gun and anti-abortion lobbies would use their deep pockets to mount public media campaigns to protect their interests instead of doling it out politicians.

This year, the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families is pushing for equal opportunity and fair funding for our students. The current funding formula short changes online charter students, and even singles them out by restricting their access to extracurricular activities. In addition, the state standardized testing protocols are archaic, burdensome and unfair, and must be modernized.

The epic political strategist, policy maker and lawyer died on Jan. 8 at age 81.

Carter, who served from 1977 to 1981, embodied a set of traditional values that seem almost alien in today’s political landscape.

President Trump has the opportunity to deliver much-needed relief by harnessing his deal-making genius in expanding Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices. Doing so would save patients and taxpayers in Wisconsin and across the country billions while ensuring that life-saving medications are within reach for all Americans.

Our nation was weakened, our justice system was neutered, and the American citizens were denied a judicial process that would allow for an outcome from the illegal behavior that had been committed against them on Jan. 6th.

Now, as we face the devastating reality of a second Trump term, many are rightly talking about the need for Ben’s DNC reforms, including his proposed 57-state-and-territory strategy.

Lorin Robinson, who has deep roots in these parts. He has been studying and writing about global warming for a long time — and he says it’s a done deal, and we’re screwed.

For a couple of decades climate deniers said climate change wasn’t happening at all. Then they said it was, but it wasn’t human caused, just a natural cycle. Now they say it’s real, but it’s too late to do anything about it — never mind we didn’t do something when we could have, mostly because of them.

Surplus needs to be considered one-time money.

Failure is not an option. Even under Trump, 7 states expanded Medicaid because of bipartisan voter support. It’s what most Wisconsin voters want.

Wisconsin’s education test scores and the legacy of state intervention.

Direct democracy is the surest route to tyranny, the latest attempt by the left to subvert representative democracy. Evers’s ballot initiative proposal would erode stability, squash deliberation, crumble our system of checks and balances, and elevate radical formulations of policy into special-interest impulse-driven elections.

Last month, as most readers are aware, a school shooting occurred right here in Madison. This resulted in a horrifying murder of a student and teacher, physical harm to others, and countless mental health challenges rippling throughout the community.

To serve my new district, I am excited to be appointed again as the ranking member of the Committee on Children and Families and the Committee on Tourism. I will also serve in a new role on the Committee on Agriculture.

I’m an anti-Trump fiscal conservative — and I’d love to see anyone in MAGA world actually cut spending.

Allowing in more immigrants, skilled and unskilled, would not just create jobs. It could increase tax revenue, help finance Social Security, bring new home buyers, and improve the business environment. Every business sector in every state needs workers!

The late president celebrated the impact and influence of the song, which decries war, nationalism, and the excesses of capitalism.

We need measurable goals to make Milwaukee and Wisconsin better this year.