Bill Barth: At a new session, new opportunities
Thursday, Jan 12, 2023
Most issues are not overtly partisan, yet still become bogged down by political infighting anyway. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Most issues are not overtly partisan, yet still become bogged down by political infighting anyway. It doesn’t have to be that way.
What to watch: Spending, taxes, crime, education and elections.
Depressed turnout among Black and Hispanic voters in Milwaukee helped carry Sen. Ron Johnson to a narrow 26,000-vote reelection victory over his challenger, Mandela Barnes.
Know what puts a crimp in any effort to fight crime? Not being able to do anything with suspects once the cops catch them.
The lack of seriousness from the Republicans in their first hours of governing aligns with their sad attempt at campaigning.
6,278. 2,560. Kyrsten Sinema. Three clues to how politically entrepreneurial Americans could conceivably break the stranglehold the country’s two major parties have on our democracy.
The regulatory shoe is on the other foot for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, served with notice on that it has violated Winnebago County zoning code.
Huge executive salaries, billions in cash and investments, yet cutting services at hospitals.
The price of not having an independent third-party perform Metro’s equity analysis may be far greater than the $50,000 Metro saved by performing it in-house.
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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed dairy farmer Paul Buhr to the Natural Resources Board, giving him five picks on the seven-member body.
Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell told WisPolitics.com he rejects the suggestion that he supported voter suppression when he touted in an email to fellow GOP activists that turnout in Milwaukee was down last fall, particularly in Black and Hispanic areas.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says it’s tough to see Republicans working together to get things done this Congress after a tumultuous speaker vote. He also says it’s too early to say if U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden will work with others and blasts U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for shooting down President Joe Biden’s nomination of brother William Pocan to the federal bench.
The once proud state of Wisconsin begins yet another year looking up at most of the rest of the country.
Most issues are not overtly partisan, yet still become bogged down by political infighting anyway. It doesn’t have to be that way.
What to watch: Spending, taxes, crime, education and elections.
Depressed turnout among Black and Hispanic voters in Milwaukee helped carry Sen. Ron Johnson to a narrow 26,000-vote reelection victory over his challenger, Mandela Barnes.
Know what puts a crimp in any effort to fight crime? Not being able to do anything with suspects once the cops catch them.
The lack of seriousness from the Republicans in their first hours of governing aligns with their sad attempt at campaigning.
6,278. 2,560. Kyrsten Sinema. Three clues to how politically entrepreneurial Americans could conceivably break the stranglehold the country’s two major parties have on our democracy.
The regulatory shoe is on the other foot for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, served with notice on that it has violated Winnebago County zoning code.
Huge executive salaries, billions in cash and investments, yet cutting services at hospitals.
The price of not having an independent third-party perform Metro’s equity analysis may be far greater than the $50,000 Metro saved by performing it in-house.
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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed dairy farmer Paul Buhr to the Natural Resources Board, giving him five picks on the seven-member body.
Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell told WisPolitics.com he rejects the suggestion that he supported voter suppression when he touted in an email to fellow GOP activists that turnout in Milwaukee was down last fall, particularly in Black and Hispanic areas.
In this week’s Capitol Chats episode U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Town of Vermont, says it’s tough to see Republicans working together to get things done this Congress after a tumultuous speaker vote. He also says it’s too early to say if U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden will work with others and blasts U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for shooting down President Joe Biden’s nomination of brother William Pocan to the federal bench.
The once proud state of Wisconsin begins yet another year looking up at most of the rest of the country.