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Milwaukee’s School Choice program celebrates 25th anniversary of landmark State Supreme Court ruling.
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Experts at Business Day in Madison predicted a less-regulated future. Jay Timmons, (pictured here) president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, ended his “State of Manufacturing” tour by speaking at the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce event Wednesday. On
Gov. Scott Walker’s capital budget includes $5 million for constructing a new Brown County STEM Innovation Center in Green Bay, drawing praise from lawmakers and economic development leaders. It would be built in the 240-acre Brown County Research and Innovation
The roads are a mess, there’s not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets are awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations.
A bill that would help those with terminal illnesses access treatments that haven’t received FDA approval will be taken up Tuesday, under calendars OK’d by the Assembly Committee on Rules. The Assembly Committee on Health signed off on the “right to
I believe higher education should be affordable, and I say this as someone who chose to attend a two year college before attending a four year institution. However, by marching toward a policy of free tuition we are actually moving away from students placing their own equity in their education.
As a local and state government official, I want the public to have as much information as possible. It doesn’t matter if they gather their information from a government website or if they read it in the public notice section of the local newspaper. In many areas of the state, newspapers are the lifeblood of a community and sometimes the only convenient source of information.
Move over Ulysses Grant and the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Step aside Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome imbroglio. In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has you both beat when it comes to presidential financial impropriety.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan called the president’s national address a “home run” as his fellow GOP members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation largely praised the speech. Dem members, however, were critical of the speech.
Our country needs to return to its federalist roots and allow states more power to innovate without unfunded mandates and federal regulations that have impeded the path of prosperity for far too long.
While there is certainly opposition to various policies, and some of it is quite intense, the efforts by Organizing for Action at town hall meetings to create and feed a fake perception is subversive and reprehensible.
The United States Supreme Court summarily affirmed the decision of a Three Judge Panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission. By affirming the panel in this case, the U.S. Supreme Court seriously undermined the legal rationale that the Wisconsin Supreme Court relied upon when it dismissed the John Doe investigation into possible illegal campaign coordination during the Governor Walker Recall Election.
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Candidates for state superintendent at a WisPolitics.com forum in Milwaukee disagreed about Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to make a proposed boost in per-pupil school aid contingent on compliance with Act 10. Walker’s plan would increase per-pupil aid by $200 the
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U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, says he wants to see President Trump take the lead on the federal budget in his address to Congress Tuesday night. Grothman was a guest Sunday on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,” produced in partnership with
WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross look back at the week in politics in Wisconsin.
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Milwaukee’s School Choice program celebrates 25th anniversary of landmark State Supreme Court ruling.
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Experts at Business Day in Madison predicted a less-regulated future. Jay Timmons, (pictured here) president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, ended his “State of Manufacturing” tour by speaking at the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce event Wednesday. On his travels to six different states, Timmons says he spoke
Gov. Scott Walker’s capital budget includes $5 million for constructing a new Brown County STEM Innovation Center in Green Bay, drawing praise from lawmakers and economic development leaders. It would be built in the 240-acre Brown County Research and Innovation Park next to UW-Green Bay, hosting STEM programming to support
The roads are a mess, there’s not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets are awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations.
A bill that would help those with terminal illnesses access treatments that haven’t received FDA approval will be taken up Tuesday, under calendars OK’d by the Assembly Committee on Rules. The Assembly Committee on Health signed off on the “right to try” bill Wednesday. The bill, authored by Rep. Pat Snyder,
I believe higher education should be affordable, and I say this as someone who chose to attend a two year college before attending a four year institution. However, by marching toward a policy of free tuition we are actually moving away from students placing their own equity in their education.
As a local and state government official, I want the public to have as much information as possible. It doesn’t matter if they gather their information from a government website or if they read it in the public notice section of the local newspaper. In many areas of the state, newspapers are the lifeblood of a community and sometimes the only convenient source of information.
Move over Ulysses Grant and the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Step aside Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome imbroglio. In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has you both beat when it comes to presidential financial impropriety.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan called the president’s national address a “home run” as his fellow GOP members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation largely praised the speech. Dem members, however, were critical of the speech.
Our country needs to return to its federalist roots and allow states more power to innovate without unfunded mandates and federal regulations that have impeded the path of prosperity for far too long.
While there is certainly opposition to various policies, and some of it is quite intense, the efforts by Organizing for Action at town hall meetings to create and feed a fake perception is subversive and reprehensible.
The United States Supreme Court summarily affirmed the decision of a Three Judge Panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Independence Institute v. Federal Election Commission. By affirming the panel in this case, the U.S. Supreme Court seriously undermined the legal rationale that the Wisconsin Supreme Court relied upon when it dismissed the John Doe investigation into possible illegal campaign coordination during the Governor Walker Recall Election.
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Candidates for state superintendent at a WisPolitics.com forum in Milwaukee disagreed about Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to make a proposed boost in per-pupil school aid contingent on compliance with Act 10. Walker’s plan would increase per-pupil aid by $200 the first year and $204 the second year of his budget,
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U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, says he wants to see President Trump take the lead on the federal budget in his address to Congress Tuesday night. Grothman was a guest Sunday on “UpFront with Mike Gousha,” produced in partnership with WisPolitics.com. “Obviously there’s a disagreement behind the scenes among Republicans
WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross look back at the week in politics in Wisconsin.
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