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The latest edition of the WisPolitics.com Book Club features Gregg Hoffmann, author of “Immortalized in Bronze.” The new book, more than 40 years in the making, profiles members of the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame.
Recently, Sanders’ tune has changed, and the defenders of embattled reproductive rights have noticed.
DNR staff want to see an agency that lives up to its mission. They, and the citizens of Wisconsin whom they serve, want a DNR that promotes science and citizen understanding, not the shabby politics of the moment.
The recent experience of Wisconsin dairy farmers being dropped from their processors and left scrambling to find a new buyer for their milk should be a wake-up call. Dairy farmers, farm groups, and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection should all take a long look at what has happened and what it means for the future of dairy farming in our state.
I encourage all colleges not only to allow but actually to encourage a wide range of speakers because a good education depends on hearing controversial topics that might make one uncomfortable and might even be perceived as offensive.
It is disheartening when my State Rep, Terese Berceau, can call the nationwide war on free speech “an artificial, political controversy.”
The agriculture industry and more than a dozen other influential special interests represented by WMC, including business, manufacturing, real estate and construction, contributed $16.7 million between January 2011 and December 2016 to Republican legislators. These same interests also contributed another $33.2 million to Walker during the period. That’s almost $50 million combined.
By one new measurement, Wisconsin is 12th worst nationally for wells which supply drinking water out of compliance with federal law.
In their latest raid on local control, Assembly Republicans would wipe out Milwaukee County’s $30 wheel tax — costing the county $7 million this year and $14 million next year — although the county could try to get it back in a referendum in 2018.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 18: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Focus on UpLift MKE: Jobs and inner-city Milwaukee.” The luncheon at UW-Milwaukee’s Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee features a panel discussion with Milwaukee County Exec Chris
Wisconsin’s House GOP Republicans are hailing the chamber’s passage Thursday of the American Health Care Act, saying it’s an important step toward the GOP promise of replacing Obamacare. The bill’s passage — on a 217-213 vote — follows weeks of
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Transportation groups are praising Assembly Republicans for their transportation funding plan, though they’re still reviewing the package. The caucus yesterday released the plan that Rep. Dale Kooyenga, a
Assembly Republicans today pitched eliminating credits for married couples and renters and stopping local governments from enacting new wheel taxes as part of a far-reaching plan that would raise revenue for transportation while putting Wisconsin on the path to a
The latest edition of the WisPolitics.com Book Club features Gregg Hoffmann, author of “Immortalized in Bronze.” The new book, more than 40 years in the making, profiles members of the Wisconsin Sports Hall of Fame.
Recently, Sanders’ tune has changed, and the defenders of embattled reproductive rights have noticed.
DNR staff want to see an agency that lives up to its mission. They, and the citizens of Wisconsin whom they serve, want a DNR that promotes science and citizen understanding, not the shabby politics of the moment.
The recent experience of Wisconsin dairy farmers being dropped from their processors and left scrambling to find a new buyer for their milk should be a wake-up call. Dairy farmers, farm groups, and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection should all take a long look at what has happened and what it means for the future of dairy farming in our state.
I encourage all colleges not only to allow but actually to encourage a wide range of speakers because a good education depends on hearing controversial topics that might make one uncomfortable and might even be perceived as offensive.
It is disheartening when my State Rep, Terese Berceau, can call the nationwide war on free speech “an artificial, political controversy.”
The agriculture industry and more than a dozen other influential special interests represented by WMC, including business, manufacturing, real estate and construction, contributed $16.7 million between January 2011 and December 2016 to Republican legislators. These same interests also contributed another $33.2 million to Walker during the period. That’s almost $50 million combined.
By one new measurement, Wisconsin is 12th worst nationally for wells which supply drinking water out of compliance with federal law.
In their latest raid on local control, Assembly Republicans would wipe out Milwaukee County’s $30 wheel tax — costing the county $7 million this year and $14 million next year — although the county could try to get it back in a referendum in 2018.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday, May 18: WisPolitics.com luncheon: “Focus on UpLift MKE: Jobs and inner-city Milwaukee.” The luncheon at UW-Milwaukee’s Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee features a panel discussion with Milwaukee County Exec Chris Abele; DR. Eve Hall, leader of the Milwaukee Urban League;
Wisconsin’s House GOP Republicans are hailing the chamber’s passage Thursday of the American Health Care Act, saying it’s an important step toward the GOP promise of replacing Obamacare. The bill’s passage — on a 217-213 vote — follows weeks of negotiations after House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled it in March,
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Transportation groups are praising Assembly Republicans for their transportation funding plan, though they’re still reviewing the package. The caucus yesterday released the plan that Rep. Dale Kooyenga, a Brookfield Republican member of the Joint Finance Committee, has been
Assembly Republicans today pitched eliminating credits for married couples and renters and stopping local governments from enacting new wheel taxes as part of a far-reaching plan that would raise revenue for transportation while putting Wisconsin on the path to a flat income tax. The plan included a hodgepodge of proposals