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It would have been wasteful to spend $750 million of state money when it was widely known even before yesterday’s official announcement that the state was in line to get even more than that from the feds.
The low number of Black students graduating with a bachelor’s degree at UW-Madison is a travesty — and, despite an enormous DEI bureaucracy, it’s not getting better.
Equity component of plan would create jobs for those that need them most.
Today, students are talking about fossil fuel divestment and the environment. More than 30 years ago, my fellow students and I were talking about divestment that impacted the very freedoms of Black and Brown people.
Today the left is better represented on city councils, county boards and school boards, in state legislatures and in Congress than at any time in modern history.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission meets today to discuss who should serve as the agency administrator for the next four years. The commission plans to go into closed session to
Business advocates in the state are applauding the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee for advancing a plan to cut income taxes by $3.5 billion, as well as the recent repeal of the personal property tax. Bill Smith, state director in Wisconsin
In one fell swoop, the 12 Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee voted to cut $32 million from the UW System’s budget to further their culture war against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts while enacting a tax cut that once again favors the very rich among us.
We need to do everything we can in to compete and create opportunity for workers in Wisconsin, and we need to alter the state tax code to do that — or see those high-earners move to other states and leave the rest of us to pay the bills.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson … I have asked members of the Milwaukee Common Council to join me in the necessary step of approving a two-percent city sales tax.
It would have been wasteful to spend $750 million of state money when it was widely known even before yesterday’s official announcement that the state was in line to get even more than that from the feds.
The low number of Black students graduating with a bachelor’s degree at UW-Madison is a travesty — and, despite an enormous DEI bureaucracy, it’s not getting better.
Equity component of plan would create jobs for those that need them most.
Today, students are talking about fossil fuel divestment and the environment. More than 30 years ago, my fellow students and I were talking about divestment that impacted the very freedoms of Black and Brown people.
Today the left is better represented on city councils, county boards and school boards, in state legislatures and in Congress than at any time in modern history.
The federal money announced Monday will be provided under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden two years ago. The funding is part of more than $42 billion in grants across the country, according to a White House release.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Wisconsin REALTORS Association From WisPolitics.com … — The Elections Commission meets today to discuss who should serve as the agency administrator for the next four years. The commission plans to go into closed session to discuss litigation before coming back into open session to consider
Business advocates in the state are applauding the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee for advancing a plan to cut income taxes by $3.5 billion, as well as the recent repeal of the personal property tax. Bill Smith, state director in Wisconsin for the National Federation of Independent Business, noted the majority
In one fell swoop, the 12 Republican members of the Joint Finance Committee voted to cut $32 million from the UW System’s budget to further their culture war against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts while enacting a tax cut that once again favors the very rich among us.
We need to do everything we can in to compete and create opportunity for workers in Wisconsin, and we need to alter the state tax code to do that — or see those high-earners move to other states and leave the rest of us to pay the bills.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson … I have asked members of the Milwaukee Common Council to join me in the necessary step of approving a two-percent city sales tax.