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Contact: Bill Rubin/Nita Dusek, 715-381-4383 nita@stcroixedc.com On April 26th, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced the preliminary March 2017 unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties and the 32 cities with populations greater than 25,000 residents. St. Croix County’s rate was estimated at 3.7%. For comparison, St. Croix’s final rate in February was 4.6% and January’s final rate was 4.2%. One year ago, the county’s unemployment rate was estimated at 4.7%. DWD said preliminary unemployment rates for March decreased in all 72 counties when compared to March 2016 and in 71 of 72 counties when compared to February 2017.
Contact: Liz Anna Kozik, (630) 768-2662 liz@kozik.net MADISON – Growing up, Liz Anna Kozik didn’t think of the restored prairies around her home in Naperville, Illinois, as a special habitat worth noticing – until she moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she felt their absence within the New England landscape. She had moved to Providence to study art at the Rhode Island School of Design. Now, having returned to the Midwest as a graduate student in design studies in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kozik has turned her artistic skills to the prairies she once overlooked.
Contact: Brian Rothgery, 414-278-4230 brian.rothgery@milwaukeecountywi.gov Ruling affirms Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors authority over compensation of county employees MILWAUKEE – County Board Chairman Theodore Lipscomb, Sr., heralded the decision of a circuit court judge that was released yesterday, in a case brought by the Board of Supervisors, saying that “The court’s ruling shows that Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele acted unlawfully when he granted numerous and costly unilateral raises for certain political appointees of Milwaukee County in violation of Board policies.” Judge DiMotto’s ruling reaffirms the board’s policymaking role and fiscal control over county governance, stating in part, “This Court
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 Madison – Governor Scott Walker released his Weekly Radio Address today titled “Investing in the Future of Wisconsin’s Workforce.” Hi, Scott Walker here. We celebrated Fab Lab Day this week. I joined Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, Secretary Mark Hogan – the head of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross, and several other state leaders as we traveled Wisconsin to award 21 school districts with Fab Lab Grants. Fab labs, or fabrication laboratories, are high-tech workshops in high schools that provide hands-on experience in science, technology, engineering, and math. The
It’s Tax Freedom Day for the Badger State, the day when hard-working Wisconsinites have finally earned enough money to cover their total tax burden for 2017, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Freedom Day initiative.
We could fix what we have in Wisconsin and nationally. We could move toward something better. Tragically, our leaders don’t want better health care, even at lower prices.
The governor’s statement that there is “more than enough revenue” to fund transportation projects is squarely at odds with current and proposed highway budgets.
The ultimate responsibility for local roads lies with local government. It doesn’t matter what state lawmakers decide to do with transportation, roads in cities like Milwaukee will stay in terrible condition until the local government decides to make road improvement a priority.
As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.
The White House continued its careen out of control by adding sanctuary attacks to its judicial failures – and then criticizing the appeals court that has yet to hear the case.
Contact: Bill Rubin/Nita Dusek, 715-381-4383 nita@stcroixedc.com On April 26th, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced the preliminary March 2017 unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties and the 32 cities with populations greater than 25,000 residents. St. Croix County’s rate was estimated at 3.7%. For comparison, St. Croix’s final
Contact: Liz Anna Kozik, (630) 768-2662 liz@kozik.net MADISON – Growing up, Liz Anna Kozik didn’t think of the restored prairies around her home in Naperville, Illinois, as a special habitat worth noticing – until she moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where she felt their absence within the New England landscape. She
Contact: Brian Rothgery, 414-278-4230 brian.rothgery@milwaukeecountywi.gov Ruling affirms Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors authority over compensation of county employees MILWAUKEE – County Board Chairman Theodore Lipscomb, Sr., heralded the decision of a circuit court judge that was released yesterday, in a case brought by the Board of Supervisors, saying that “The
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 Madison – Governor Scott Walker released his Weekly Radio Address today titled “Investing in the Future of Wisconsin’s Workforce.” Hi, Scott Walker here. We celebrated Fab Lab Day this week. I joined Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, Secretary Mark Hogan – the head of the Wisconsin
It’s Tax Freedom Day for the Badger State, the day when hard-working Wisconsinites have finally earned enough money to cover their total tax burden for 2017, according to the Tax Foundation’s annual Tax Freedom Day initiative.
We could fix what we have in Wisconsin and nationally. We could move toward something better. Tragically, our leaders don’t want better health care, even at lower prices.
The governor’s statement that there is “more than enough revenue” to fund transportation projects is squarely at odds with current and proposed highway budgets.
The ultimate responsibility for local roads lies with local government. It doesn’t matter what state lawmakers decide to do with transportation, roads in cities like Milwaukee will stay in terrible condition until the local government decides to make road improvement a priority.
As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.
The White House continued its careen out of control by adding sanctuary attacks to its judicial failures – and then criticizing the appeals court that has yet to hear the case.