WEDC board approves up to $15.5M in tax credits for Kikkoman expansion

The WEDC Board of Directors has approved up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits for Kikkoman Foods’ planned $800 million expansion, Gov. Tony Evers announced.  That total project dollar figure covers expanding the Japanese company’s existing soy sauce brewing plant in Walworth and building a new 240,000-square-foot facility in Jefferson, according to yesterday’s release. These efforts are expected to create 83 new jobs over 12 years.  Evers in a statement yesterday highlighted the economic relationship between Wisconsin and Japan, noting the state has more than $700 million in exports to Japan each year. Kikkoman Corporation in 1973 opened Kikkoman

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Mark Belling: Tammy Baldwin is very beatable

It is very likely that every single voter who chooses Trump will also pick Hovde and whoever votes for Biden will pick Baldwin. In other words, if Trump wins the state, so does Hovde. Baldwin brings no residual strength at all.

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Scott Fitzgerald: The impeachment inquiry case into Joe Biden

Democrats will have you believe House Republicans are running a sham impeachment inquiry — but that could not be further from the truth. House Republicans are following the facts and we will let the truth speak for itself. If that worries the president, then you need to ask yourself “why?”

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Mike McCabe: Canary in a park shelter

There was a time when we Americans were pretty sure democracy was invented here and saw it as our duty to share our creation with the rest of the world. Today, we treat democracy the way we treat immigrants. With suspicion. As an intruder. An imposition.

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WEDC board approves up to $15.5M in tax credits for Kikkoman expansion

The WEDC Board of Directors has approved up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits for Kikkoman Foods’ planned $800 million expansion, Gov. Tony Evers announced.  That total project dollar figure covers expanding the Japanese company’s existing soy sauce brewing plant in Walworth and building a new 240,000-square-foot facility in

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Mark Belling: Tammy Baldwin is very beatable

It is very likely that every single voter who chooses Trump will also pick Hovde and whoever votes for Biden will pick Baldwin. In other words, if Trump wins the state, so does Hovde. Baldwin brings no residual strength at all.

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Scott Fitzgerald: The impeachment inquiry case into Joe Biden

Democrats will have you believe House Republicans are running a sham impeachment inquiry — but that could not be further from the truth. House Republicans are following the facts and we will let the truth speak for itself. If that worries the president, then you need to ask yourself “why?”

Read More »

Mike McCabe: Canary in a park shelter

There was a time when we Americans were pretty sure democracy was invented here and saw it as our duty to share our creation with the rest of the world. Today, we treat democracy the way we treat immigrants. With suspicion. As an intruder. An imposition.

Read More »