The pivotal but almost unnoticed highlight of the spring elections in Washington County was the reelection of local favorite Annette Ziegler to a second ten-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
When our water, our air, and our soil are clean and healthy, so are our communities. The planet we leave our great grandchildren will be our most important legacy.
The latest effort to fully repeal state and local prevailing wage laws matches the agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a special interest bill mill that hawks pro-business economic and social policy proposals to state legislators around the country. ALEC has received funding from Charles and David Koch, and Koch Industries is a member of ALEC.
You may think this is the Passover and Easter season, but for motorists negotiating Wisconsin’s crumbling highways, there’s been something of a Festivus miracle.
The DNR’s latest press release basically dismisses CWD’s ever-worsening spread by noting most sick deer came from Wisconsin’s “southern farmland zone.” True, but disease rates again set records across that zone, which covers much of south-central to southwestern Wisconsin.
Members of Congress must continue to encourage middle-class homeownership, and a key part of promoting homeownership here in Wisconsin is the deductibility of local property taxes.
Agriculture, manufacturing and tourism are the holy trinity of the Wisconsin economy and may always be so, given the state’s rich traditions in all three sectors. Technology increasingly drives each of those sectors, however, and is slowly building an impressive standing of its own in terms of the jobs and value it adds to the Wisconsin economy
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 Fennimore – Governor Scott Walker’s Executive Budget proposal focuses on student success and includes significant investments in K-12 education. The proposal lifts K-12 investment to $11.5 billion over two years, an all-time high and includes $649 million in new state aids for all Wisconsin K-12 schools. To highlight these investments, Governor Walker traveled to Fennimore Elementary School today. “We know that it’s a moral imperative to provide our students with a quality education,” Governor Walker said. “But it’s more than that – it’s also an economic imperative. The historic K-12 investments included in our budget
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Rep. John Nygren, who co-chairs the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, says Assembly Republicans are working on developing their own transportation plan aimed at finding a long-term solution to the state’s funding challenges. “Where we’re at is we’re going to try and develop a plan, and then take it to the people, and take it to the governor, and hopefully the governor will see the value of th… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — President Donald Trump is coming back to Wisconsin on Tuesday for a stop in Kenosha. Trump will speak at the Kenosha tool manufacturer Snap-on, according to the White House. It will be Trump’s first visit to the state since taking office, though Vice President Mike Pence made a stop in Janes… Please log in to access subscriber content. If you don’t have a subscription, click here for a WisPolitics free trial and to view the different subscription options.
The pivotal but almost unnoticed highlight of the spring elections in Washington County was the reelection of local favorite Annette Ziegler to a second ten-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
When our water, our air, and our soil are clean and healthy, so are our communities. The planet we leave our great grandchildren will be our most important legacy.
The latest effort to fully repeal state and local prevailing wage laws matches the agenda of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a special interest bill mill that hawks pro-business economic and social policy proposals to state legislators around the country. ALEC has received funding from Charles and David Koch, and Koch Industries is a member of ALEC.
You may think this is the Passover and Easter season, but for motorists negotiating Wisconsin’s crumbling highways, there’s been something of a Festivus miracle.
The DNR’s latest press release basically dismisses CWD’s ever-worsening spread by noting most sick deer came from Wisconsin’s “southern farmland zone.” True, but disease rates again set records across that zone, which covers much of south-central to southwestern Wisconsin.
Members of Congress must continue to encourage middle-class homeownership, and a key part of promoting homeownership here in Wisconsin is the deductibility of local property taxes.
Agriculture, manufacturing and tourism are the holy trinity of the Wisconsin economy and may always be so, given the state’s rich traditions in all three sectors. Technology increasingly drives each of those sectors, however, and is slowly building an impressive standing of its own in terms of the jobs and value it adds to the Wisconsin economy
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 Fennimore – Governor Scott Walker’s Executive Budget proposal focuses on student success and includes significant investments in K-12 education. The proposal lifts K-12 investment to $11.5 billion over two years, an all-time high and includes $649 million in new state aids for all Wisconsin K-12
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Rep. John Nygren, who co-chairs the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, says Assembly Republicans are working on developing their own transportation plan aimed at finding a long-term solution to the state’s funding challenges. “Where we’re at is we’re going to try and develop a plan, and then take it to the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — President Donald Trump is coming back to Wisconsin on Tuesday for a stop in Kenosha. Trump will speak at the Kenosha tool manufacturer Snap-on, according to the White House. It will be Trump’s first visit to the state