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Key Wisconsin Presidential Election Dates: How to Vote Early
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The presidential election is almost upon us, and you may be wondering how to vote early, when the election is, and what the deadlines are. The presidential election in Wisconsin is Nov. 5, 2024. Find your polling place here. The Wisconsin Election Commission provides these dates: Absentee Voting- De...
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We’re Inviting Rich Lowry Back to Wisconsin. Here’s Why
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This is an opinion column by Rick Esenberg, the President and General Counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. In December, WILL and the National Review Institute will host Rich Lowry in Brookfield. In an era where public discourse is often reduced to sound bites, obnoxious and oftentim...
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More Property Taxes to Come? WILL Informs Wisconsin Property Taxpayers About Upcoming Referenda
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WILL is providing a useful tool to inform voters about how the upcoming school referenda questions on the November ballot can affect their bottom line. WILL’s calculator was developed with data from local school districts via information available online and open records requests. Gathering that da...
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Facebook Blatantly Interferes in Close Wisconsin Senate Race Against Eric Hovde
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Facebook even removed a reader’s post that said, “Vote for Hovde!” labeling it spam. Facebook is blatantly – and outrageously – interfering in the close Wisconsin race for U.S. Senate by repeatedly removing a Wisconsin Right Now news story that alerts voters about an “America First” candidate on the...
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Bizarre ‘Republicans for Harris’ Event Refuses Questions From Conservative Media
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The Harris/Walz campaign held a humorous Zoom event featuring three elderly Trump haters with no influence in Wisconsin conservativism today, touting them as part of a mythical “Republicans for Harris” movement here. But, tellingly, they wouldn’t ask any questions from conservative media. The three ...
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Poll: Majority of Voters Favor a Federal Ban on Transgender Procedures For Minors
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Most registered voters, 59%, support a federal ban on transgender procedures such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries for minors, a new national poll found. The strongest support for a federal ban came from registered Republicans (82%), while the lowest amount of su...
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Warning: Wisconsin ‘America First’ Senate Candidate Was Recruited by Dems
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“Senator Baldwin and her operatives are manipulating the US Senate race” – Eric Hovde When you go to the ballot box on Nov. 5, you will see the name Thomas Leager featured as an “America First” candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin. Be forewarned: The Associated Press recently exposed the f...
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Tammy Baldwin Made Wisconsin’s Fentanyl Problem Worse: Eric Hovde
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“Instead of addressing this growing problem, President Biden, VP Harris, and Senator Tammy Baldwin have only made it worse” – Eric Hovde. This is an opinion column by Eric Hovde, businessman and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Our country is facing a drug epidemic crisis of catastrophic proport...
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Why Trumponomics Works [Up Against the Wall]
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This is an opinion piece. I love some of the ideas coming out from Trump N.o tax on over time encourages people to work over time – to add productivity to our economy. No tax on social security is totally appropriate given you already paid income taxes on those dollars! (Taxing social security is a ...
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Illegal Immigrant Led Stoughton Police on 116 MPH Chase in Stolen Car: Complaint
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Mario Paguada Cruz is accused of leading Stoughton, Wisconsin, police on a high-speed pursuit that spanned 11 miles and reached top speeds of 116 MPH in a stolen car. He produced a Guatemalan passport and is held in the Dane County jail on an ICE detainer. A competency hearing is now scheduled in hi...
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Wisconsin DPI Deceives the Public on Test Scores
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Milwaukee and Racine data – the fairer comparison – shows private choice students outperform public school students in 32 of 36 grade-level comparisons. This is an opinion piece. Half-truths are contemptible. As the Oxford Dictionary explains, half-truths “deliberately convey only part of the truth ...
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Wisconsin Sales Tax Collections Up 2.1% in First Quarter of Fiscal Year
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin saw a 2.1% increase in its general sales and use tax collections in the first quarter of the new fiscal year in numbers released Thursday. The state collected more than $1.32 billion after collecting $1.29 billion during the same period last year. The ...
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Milwaukee Schools Sued by Group, Parents Over Lack of School Resource Officers
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(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a lawsuit for several parents of students against the Milwaukee Public School District for failing to provide the required 25 school resource officers in its schools. Wisconsin’s Act 12 requires MPS to have 25 SROs...
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Seattle Children’s Hospital Among Top in Nation For Gender Reassignment Procedures
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Washington state is among the 10 states in the nation where gender reassignment procedures performed on minors occur the most, according to data from Do No Harm, while Seattle’s Children’s Hospital was listed among the top hospitals in the nation. Do No Harm is a nonprofit group of p...
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Eric Hovde Proposes Putting Social Security Into Trust
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde said in a 2012 interview that he was in favor of raising the retirement age for Social Security, something that is the focus of a new political ad from incumbent Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Hovde clarified his ...
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Wisconsin Estimates $1.56B in Shared Revenue to Communities in 2025
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin will send an estimated $1.56 billion to local governments in shared revenue in 2025. That total includes $770 million for county and municipal aid, $281 million for supplemental county and municipal aid, nearly $174 million for Act 12 personal property...
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Voters Focus on Inflation, Immigration, Economy Ahead of Presidential Election
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Former President Donald Trump holds a slight edge over rival Vice President Kamala Harris when it comes to the issues voters are most concerned about: inflation and illegal immigration. That's according to the results of The Center Square's Voters' Voice Poll, conducted in conjunctio...
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Trump Confirms: No More Debates
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Former President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that he would not debate Vice President Kamala Harris amid speculation that the two could have one last faceoff before Election Day on Nov. 5. Trump's comments come the same day that Fox News invited both candidates to debate at the e...
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Food Prices Jump, Inflation Rises Faster Than Expected
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Newly released federal inflation data shows that prices rose faster than expected last month, putting more pressure on Americans’ budgets. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday released its Consumer Price Index, a key marker of inflation, which showed that CPI rose 0.2% in ...
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More on DPI’s Forward Exam Changes
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Noah Diekemper This week, Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) unveiled yet another change to how “proficiency” is measured on the state’s Forward exams. This change, not the first in […] The post More on DPI’s Forward Exam Changes appeared first on Wisconsin Institute for Law & Libert...
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