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Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: moderator Tom Still, president, Wisconsin Technology Council, tstill@wisconsintechnologycouncil.com Wisconsin is down to one nuclear power facility, and cheap natural gas augmented by renewables dominates the future energy discussion for many utilities. But should Wisconsin and the rest
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin formally kicked off his campaign for guv today, charging President Trump and Gov. Scott Walker do not believe in the principles of government providing
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The offices of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Sen. Steve Nass told WisPolitics.com they have been contacted by an attorney hired by the Ethics Commission to probe charges of “partisan influence”
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Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: moderator Tom Still, president, Wisconsin Technology Council, tstill@wisconsintechnologycouncil.com Wisconsin is down to one nuclear power facility, and cheap natural gas augmented by renewables dominates the future energy discussion for many utilities. But should Wisconsin and the rest of the Midwest abandon the nuclear energy option? Some experts
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin formally kicked off his campaign for guv today, charging President Trump and Gov. Scott Walker do not believe in the principles of government providing citizen health and safety “through a fair system of taxation”
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — The offices of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Sen. Steve Nass told WisPolitics.com they have been contacted by an attorney hired by the Ethics Commission to probe charges of “partisan influence” directed at agency Administrator Brian Bell. The Ethics Commission declined
Do you believe it is appropriate for state Supreme Court candidates to openly discuss their personal political views?