Courts to presidency, crashed by partisans
Jul. 15, 2024
Most of the time these columns stick pretty close to home, on topics about the people and places around the region and state.
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Most of the time these columns stick pretty close to home, on topics about the people and places around the region and state.
I had a dream the other night.
It was a hot summer day and I was in the hay mow stacking bales. I could feel the chaff on my sweaty skin, hear the chatter of the elevator chain bringing up the bales from the wagon and smell the sweet aroma of the freshly dried alfalfa.
The 4-3 liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is doing a lot of the expected things — restoring absentee ballot drop boxes, taking up abortion cases and the like.
Though the high unemployment that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, the number of people receiving FoodShare benefits in Wisconsin has not yet returned to 2019 levels.
If you ever made a worker’s compensation claim and everything went smoothly, you may think it is always that easy. Unfortunately, a lot of injured workers have to fight for their rights.
Outside groups reimbursed lawmakers for more than $150,000 in travel expenses last year to attend events around the country and abroad hosted by nonpartisan groups such as NCSL as well as the Jobs First Coalition, which backs GOP candidates, according to a WisPolitics.com review.
The bill moved with lightning speed. It was introduced last December, passed the state Senate in January and the Assembly in February, and was signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers in March.
My wife and I have family friends who told us about their boating experiences in northern Virginia. They had a pontoon boat which was docked at a local lake.
It’s been about 40 years since a couple of friends dragged me to Beloit’s Krueger Haskell Municipal Golf Course for the silly purpose of whacking a stupid ball and then chasing it.
Passing the age of 60 gives me the right to slip into what I believe is my curmudgeon persona, which means I can complain about certain things that I dislike or just don’t understand.
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