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WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss close races in Wisconsin for president, U.S. Senate
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at recent polls and discuss how close the U.S. Senate and presidential races might be. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Annette Kingsland Ziegler: Law Day 2024: Honoring Our Legal Heritage and Democratic Values
This year, the American Bar Association has chosen the theme “The Voices of Democracy,” which aligns with the foundational principles of our legal system and the essence of our nation’s democratic ethos.
Bruce Thompson: Wisconsin’s legislative committees uniquely powerful?
Suit by Gov. Evers shows Wisconsin violating separation-of-powers doctrine.
Patrick McIlheran: Wisconsin Scouts increasingly running into closed school doors
Evers’ veto unfortunately is in line with rising trend of schools refusing traditional short recruiting talks.
Ruth Conniff: Progressive Dems between a rock and a hard place on Gaza
Rep. Mark Pocan balances opposition to the war and support for Biden.
John Torinus: Wisconsin Republicans soft on Putin
Mike Gallagher left Congress Saturday as a traditional Republican after his pivotal vote to support Ukraine against Vladimir Putin. He was a hawk during his eight years in Washington, in contrast to the rest of the Wisconsin GOP delegation that has gone soft on Putin.
Dave Cieslewicz: The spring of reason
The hard-right Freedom Caucus may have finally been put in its place and SCOTUS might reject an extreme state anti-abortion law while unrealistic hard-left ideas about how to fight crime are being ended in places that once embraced them, DEI may be improved through a needed pushback, and even the very heart of hard-left media may be undergoing a change back toward fairness. It’s springtime for moderation.
Tom Still: Taking off: Aviation innovation continues to fly high in Wisconsin
The kind of transformation underway in Wisconsin and elsewhere today has a chance to alter the carbon-based footprint of the industry through new fuels, new engines and new ways to move people and cargo through airports.
Clean Economy Coalition of Wisconsin partners: A bright future for Wisconsin’s energy transition
This week’s Solar for All Announcement expands access for solar, creates options for low- and moderate-income families in Wisconsin
Robert Miranda: Flint, Michigan, continues to be national example of government’s failure to protect America’s water supply
Residents facing environmental contamination, economic disinvestment, racial discrimination, and political marginalization for organizing to save their families from harm, have to this day continue to face these same injustices they faced when they first exposed the lead in water crisis.
Dave Zweifel: Wisconsin journalism loses an icon in Sam Martino
He was 85, but the news business was just as alive in him as it was back in college at Michigan State more than 60 years ago.
Emily Mills: Transgender women belong in women’s sports
Women and girls don’t need protection from fellow women and girls who just want to play sports and experience the various benefits that come with it. Women and girls and non-binary people need equal access, equal funding, robust protections against sexual assault and harassment, and the dignity of being taken just as seriously as men in sports.
WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ discuss close races in Wisconsin for president, U.S. Senate
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at recent polls and discuss how close the U.S. Senate and presidential races might be. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Rewind: Your Week in Review for April 19
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit over legislative authority, a GOP lawsuit challenging an Evers veto related to funding literacy programs, results of the Marquette University Law School poll and more.