Republican
legislative leaders and Gov. Scott Walker met this past week to craft handshake
deals on income tax cuts, voucher school expansion and Medicaid
Yet again another controversial Republican bill is flying through the Legislature at warp speed. Last Friday, before the Memorial Day vacation, Greendale Rep. Jeff Stone began circulating his omnibus voter suppression bill, which, among other things, would reinstate the legally challenged voter ID requirement, open up loopholes for corporations sponsoring phony issue ads, shorten the amount of ti...
The movement is led from the top by the healthy foods initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama and from Milwaukee by Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, named by Time
While landlords shouldn’t have to put up with
chronically irresponsible tenants and should have the right to petition for eviction,
there should be a level of mutual respect between landlords and their
customers, the renters
The nonprofit Greendale Against Bullying (GABnow) is
striving to end bullying in Greendale and the surrounding communities. Linda
Lee, president of GABnow, encourages everyone—children, parents, teachers,
administrators
The first few months in office are never easy for a
young, energetic, idealistic state legislator who’s a member of the minority
party and shut out of the majority party’s decision-making process. But despite
a “reality check” or
It’s no surprise the University of Wisconsin System would begin setting
aside extra reserve funds when the most anti-education governor and Legislature
in state history took control of Wisconsin’s government
Republican lawmakers have not scheduled a public hearing in Milwaukee County on the controversial bill to grant the Milwaukee County executive sweeping powers over local
In his biennial state budget, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing to set up
an unelected, unaccountable charter school board that could establish local
charter school boards around the state; these schools would be funded with