To create students who stay curious and inquisitive throughout their lives – active participants in democracy, critical consumers of information, creative contributors to our communities – we need to ensure our students are literate. When it comes to literacy in Wisconsin, I know we have a distance to go. And yet that distance also represents a great opportunity for our state: the opportunity

As you change the clocks back an hour this weekend, ReadyWisconsin encourages you to use some of your extra time to check the carbon monoxide detectors and smoke alarms in your home, while also making sure your home emergency kit is ready for the upcoming winter. Daylight saving time ends Sunday, Nov. 7 at 2 a.m. As the winter months approach, carbon monoxide detectors are an especially

Last week the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau released its long-anticipated report on the November 2020 general election. To the surprise of no one who actually pays attention to how elections are run in the state, the audit report shows no evidence of the type of systemic fraud being alleged by the most ardent election conspiracy theorists. In the words of Senator Robert Cowles

I had gotten similar question from friends all over. It seems to me, that the question is untethered from reality as one can get. The question is brazenly dishonest. It left me breathless. That’s one example of annoying traits of concrete-thinking by conservatives. What kind of person believes that Gen. Powell’s death from COVID means that vaccines don’t work? We really need to stop dumbing

While next summer may seem a long time away, the city of Medford is right to be concerned about lining up adequate lifeguard staffing. While ongoing efforts to increase availability of housing in the area will have a long term positive impact on maintaining the workforce population in the city and surrounding areas, there are no quick fixes to the demographic cycle that is seeing rural Wisconsin

October 17-23 is Forest Products week in Wisconsin. It is a time to reflect on the important role the state’s forest-related industries play in keeping rural Wisconsin economically strong. By the numbers, the economic impact of forest products in the region and state is impressive. The forest products industry in Wisconsin provides more than 64,000 full and part-time jobs and has a total

The money and politics surrounding Covid is absolutely sickening. The latest example is the introduction of the new drug by Merck, Molnupiravir. Interestingly enough, Merck also manufactures Ivermectin, a drug that has been vilified in the media and most of the medical establishment. Ivermectin has a long history of safety and efficacy. The discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine