
Gregory Humphrey: This must be final Mifflin Street party in Madison
The drinking party that has been a yearly spectacle for this city, and a continuing embarrassment, must come to an end.
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The drinking party that has been a yearly spectacle for this city, and a continuing embarrassment, must come to an end.

A recent draft of an Assembly GOP plan to pump more money into shared revenue didn’t yet include details on how to divvy up $227 million in new aid for counties and municipalities or language for a full repeal of the personal property tax.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will take its first votes on the 2023-25 state budget today, including a motion that would remove 545 of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’

The head of the state AFL-CIO is calling for greater efforts to improve worker safety after a national report found 105 workplace deaths in Wisconsin in 2021. According to the national AFL-CIO’s latest report, 21 of the Wisconsin workers that
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GOP brinksmanship in not raising the debt ceiling without conditions will cause a train wreck.

Whether the federal debt ceiling or the state shared revenue discussions, it is clear that much needed resources for our citizens and communities are nothing more than political bargaining chips.

The debate over what famous UW-Madison alum Matt Desmond calls “scarcity diversion” will start in the Capitol when legislators begin drafting the next two-year state budget.

Why extreme risk protection orders are egregiously unconstitutional

A couple of weeks ago Dane County Executive Joe Parisi appointed former Supervisor and current State Rep. Shelia Stubbs to lead the county’s human services agency. On paper, Stubbs looked like a good choice, but she has managed to disqualify herself with her actions since the appointment.

In my lifetime, there were rural voters in many communities who were electing Democrats to represent them. I bet if enough politicians with a D behind their names ever figure out that rural folks want more for their communities than reasons to be resentful, they’d do it again.

The drinking party that has been a yearly spectacle for this city, and a continuing embarrassment, must come to an end.

A recent draft of an Assembly GOP plan to pump more money into shared revenue didn’t yet include details on how to divvy up $227 million in new aid for counties and municipalities or language for a full repeal of the personal property tax.
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement University of Wisconsin-Madison From WisPolitics.com … — The Joint Finance Committee will take its first votes on the 2023-25 state budget today, including a motion that would remove 545 of Dem Gov. Tony Evers’ proposals. The GOP-controlled committee agenda today also includes a motion

The head of the state AFL-CIO is calling for greater efforts to improve worker safety after a national report found 105 workplace deaths in Wisconsin in 2021. According to the national AFL-CIO’s latest report, 21 of the Wisconsin workers that died on the job in 2021 were killed in assaults
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GOP brinksmanship in not raising the debt ceiling without conditions will cause a train wreck.

Whether the federal debt ceiling or the state shared revenue discussions, it is clear that much needed resources for our citizens and communities are nothing more than political bargaining chips.

The debate over what famous UW-Madison alum Matt Desmond calls “scarcity diversion” will start in the Capitol when legislators begin drafting the next two-year state budget.

Why extreme risk protection orders are egregiously unconstitutional

A couple of weeks ago Dane County Executive Joe Parisi appointed former Supervisor and current State Rep. Shelia Stubbs to lead the county’s human services agency. On paper, Stubbs looked like a good choice, but she has managed to disqualify herself with her actions since the appointment.

In my lifetime, there were rural voters in many communities who were electing Democrats to represent them. I bet if enough politicians with a D behind their names ever figure out that rural folks want more for their communities than reasons to be resentful, they’d do it again.