Dept. of Public Instruction: How we can save lives

Dear Wisconsin, We need to talk. I want to have a conversation based on fact and lived experience, grounded in reality and with the intention of learning, growing, and supporting the children of our state – all the children of our state.

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U.S. Rep. Van Orden: Statement on vote to vacate

WASHINGTON, DC – Following a vote to vacate the speakership, Representative Derrick Van Orden released the following statement:  “Eight allegedly conservative members of the Republican Party just voted with Adam Schiff, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Pramila Jayapal, Eric Swalwell, and every

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Opportunity Wisconsin: House Republicans voted to cut Social Security access, nutrition assistance programs for women and children, and more during shutdown fight

MADISON, Wis. – Although a government shutdown was averted, you may have missed that every Republican member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation voted for an extreme plan on Friday that would have forced devastating cuts to programs including nutrition assistance, low income heating assistance,

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Charlie Sykes: The fall of Kevin McCarthy … was inevitable

Some pundits are suggesting that Democrats should have been “the adults in the room” and rescued McCarthy. But this is piffle on stilts, because there was nothing adult about Kevin’s short and lamentable reign, and it would have been pointless for the Democrats to pretend it was worth propping up. Let’s review some of the key moments in his fall.

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Dave Cieslewicz: Requiem for Kevin

The most depressing thing about McCarthy’s fate is what it says about the state of our system. Practical politics, governing, doing what’s in the long-term best interests of the county or even of your party — all of that is in peril.

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Gregory Humphrey: Enough of GOP madness

As the world watches and wonders what has happened to the leader of the free world, Americans continue to be embarrassed and stunned at the new and lower basement that the GOP has willingly taken the country.

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Mike McCabe: A roof out of reach

Housing in Madison is not only unaffordable for the poorest Black families, its cost puts it out of the reach of median-income Black households in nearly every part of the city.

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Jason Church: Congress must keep promises to veterans

The VA rule, inconspicuously called “Change in Rates VA Pays for Special Modes of Transportation,” would lower the reimbursements both ground and air ambulance providers receive when transporting a veteran in an emergency to a level substantially below the actual cost of service.

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Rep. Stubbs: Testifies in support of Assembly Bills 180, 181, 182, and 183

MADISON, Wis. – Following the Assembly Committee on Corrections’ public hearing on Assembly Bills 180, 181, 182, and 183, Representative Shelia Stubbs released the following statement: “Our criminal justice system is broken. When we release people from incarceration back into the community, we do not adequately equip them for success.

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Dept. of Public Instruction: How we can save lives

Dear Wisconsin, We need to talk. I want to have a conversation based on fact and lived experience, grounded in reality and with the intention of learning, growing, and supporting the children of our state – all the children of our state. Our trans and non-binary kids in Wisconsin are hurting. I

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U.S. Rep. Van Orden: Statement on vote to vacate

WASHINGTON, DC – Following a vote to vacate the speakership, Representative Derrick Van Orden released the following statement:  “Eight allegedly conservative members of the Republican Party just voted with Adam Schiff, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Pramila Jayapal, Eric Swalwell, and every other member of the Democrat Party to remove the Speaker of

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Opportunity Wisconsin: House Republicans voted to cut Social Security access, nutrition assistance programs for women and children, and more during shutdown fight

MADISON, Wis. – Although a government shutdown was averted, you may have missed that every Republican member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation voted for an extreme plan on Friday that would have forced devastating cuts to programs including nutrition assistance, low income heating assistance, and access to health care.  While the bill failed to

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Marquette researcher getting federal funds for pipeline corrosion research

Marquette University researcher Qindan Huang is getting nearly $740,000 in federal funding to explore a method for protecting critical infrastructure from corrosion.  Huang is an associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering in the Milwaukee university’s Opus College of Engineering. She will use the U.S. Department of Transportation grant

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Charlie Sykes: The fall of Kevin McCarthy … was inevitable

Some pundits are suggesting that Democrats should have been “the adults in the room” and rescued McCarthy. But this is piffle on stilts, because there was nothing adult about Kevin’s short and lamentable reign, and it would have been pointless for the Democrats to pretend it was worth propping up. Let’s review some of the key moments in his fall.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: Requiem for Kevin

The most depressing thing about McCarthy’s fate is what it says about the state of our system. Practical politics, governing, doing what’s in the long-term best interests of the county or even of your party — all of that is in peril.

Read More »

Gregory Humphrey: Enough of GOP madness

As the world watches and wonders what has happened to the leader of the free world, Americans continue to be embarrassed and stunned at the new and lower basement that the GOP has willingly taken the country.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: A roof out of reach

Housing in Madison is not only unaffordable for the poorest Black families, its cost puts it out of the reach of median-income Black households in nearly every part of the city.

Read More »

Jason Church: Congress must keep promises to veterans

The VA rule, inconspicuously called “Change in Rates VA Pays for Special Modes of Transportation,” would lower the reimbursements both ground and air ambulance providers receive when transporting a veteran in an emergency to a level substantially below the actual cost of service.

Read More »