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There is good reason for potential Wisconsin governor candidates to hold off on formally announcing their candidacies. They all have to calculate the declining approval ratings of President Trump on their prospects.
Aggressively pushing for laws, policies meant to help them. But Democrats now benefiting.
Judges are just politicians in black robes. Except when they’re not.
While the decision of the Wisconsin Historical Society to not fly the pride flag at its Madison location may seem unimportant to some, I would like to offer a different perspective, including the wider implications of this decision.
Northern Wisconsin Job Corps center spent $290,000 per graduate on ineffective training.
Visitors to our national parks are being met with impossibly long lines, overflowing trash cans, closed toilets, crumbling trails and fewer park workers to help them understand the majesty of what they’re visiting.
The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.
Recent weeks have brought forth two of the most egregious violations of the public’s right to know that I have seen in more than three decades of tracking openness issues on the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
Cassellius: ‘I think I was placed here to kind of bring the community along and have these hard conversations.’
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the saying goes. Yet high-quality preventive care is out of reach for many residents of Wisconsin, leading to late detection of diseases and poor management of chronic conditions.
Our state is powered by entrepreneurs who do things the right way. We work hard, follow the rules and support our communities. But the federal government doesn’t always seem to play by the same rulebook.
Taxpayers are currently getting a better outcome for students educated at private choice schools at a much lower cost.
As the Trump Administration and others try to contract the federal government support for environmental and climate change efforts, new leadership is needed. MidAmerica Clean Future Alliance has been developing ideas and programs and recruiting those new leaders.
A legitimate concern is how some professionals are using their pass-through entities to turn what should be salary or wage income into pass-through income to obtain the SALT and 20% deductions. That could easily be resolved without the new provisions in both the House and Senate bills that make other pass-throughs less competitive with C-Corps.
The Senate can make targeted changes to certain provisions in the House bill in order to ensure the final package is maximally effective at supporting manufacturing investment here in the U.S. These changes include protecting manufacturers’ ability to deduct interest on business loans.
Bill kept his ego in check and laughed off our presidential speculation. He knew his way around the White House as well, or better, than anyone in American media, and he was much more interested in checking and balancing our commanders in chief than in trying to become one himself.
Our constituents expect those they elect to be good managers of tax dollars, not just spend slightly less than those on the other side of the aisle. Lawmakers have an opportunity to get it right and we should take it.
Rather than fostering fair competition, minimum markup laws artificially inflate prices on everyday necessities like gasoline and groceries, burdening working families and undermining consumer choice. In a modern economy defined by efficiency, transparency, and innovation, government should not be in the business of telling retailers what they must charge.
Materials engineers are essential but since we work behind the scenes, many people are unaware of the critical role we play. Our work goes into every single manufactured item you see around you.
It is incredibly worthwhile to celebrate the Appellate court’s reversal, and the Supreme Court’s upholding, of a decision that delivered a decisive blow to the centralizing and feudalistic institution of zoning.
There is good reason for potential Wisconsin governor candidates to hold off on formally announcing their candidacies. They all have to calculate the declining approval ratings of President Trump on their prospects.
Aggressively pushing for laws, policies meant to help them. But Democrats now benefiting.
Judges are just politicians in black robes. Except when they’re not.
While the decision of the Wisconsin Historical Society to not fly the pride flag at its Madison location may seem unimportant to some, I would like to offer a different perspective, including the wider implications of this decision.
Northern Wisconsin Job Corps center spent $290,000 per graduate on ineffective training.
Visitors to our national parks are being met with impossibly long lines, overflowing trash cans, closed toilets, crumbling trails and fewer park workers to help them understand the majesty of what they’re visiting.
The Republican senator dropped his reelection bid rather than lie about the devastating damage Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will do to Medicaid.
Recent weeks have brought forth two of the most egregious violations of the public’s right to know that I have seen in more than three decades of tracking openness issues on the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
Cassellius: ‘I think I was placed here to kind of bring the community along and have these hard conversations.’
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the saying goes. Yet high-quality preventive care is out of reach for many residents of Wisconsin, leading to late detection of diseases and poor management of chronic conditions.
Our state is powered by entrepreneurs who do things the right way. We work hard, follow the rules and support our communities. But the federal government doesn’t always seem to play by the same rulebook.
Taxpayers are currently getting a better outcome for students educated at private choice schools at a much lower cost.
As the Trump Administration and others try to contract the federal government support for environmental and climate change efforts, new leadership is needed. MidAmerica Clean Future Alliance has been developing ideas and programs and recruiting those new leaders.
A legitimate concern is how some professionals are using their pass-through entities to turn what should be salary or wage income into pass-through income to obtain the SALT and 20% deductions. That could easily be resolved without the new provisions in both the House and Senate bills that make other pass-throughs less competitive with C-Corps.
The Senate can make targeted changes to certain provisions in the House bill in order to ensure the final package is maximally effective at supporting manufacturing investment here in the U.S. These changes include protecting manufacturers’ ability to deduct interest on business loans.
Bill kept his ego in check and laughed off our presidential speculation. He knew his way around the White House as well, or better, than anyone in American media, and he was much more interested in checking and balancing our commanders in chief than in trying to become one himself.
Our constituents expect those they elect to be good managers of tax dollars, not just spend slightly less than those on the other side of the aisle. Lawmakers have an opportunity to get it right and we should take it.
Rather than fostering fair competition, minimum markup laws artificially inflate prices on everyday necessities like gasoline and groceries, burdening working families and undermining consumer choice. In a modern economy defined by efficiency, transparency, and innovation, government should not be in the business of telling retailers what they must charge.
Materials engineers are essential but since we work behind the scenes, many people are unaware of the critical role we play. Our work goes into every single manufactured item you see around you.
It is incredibly worthwhile to celebrate the Appellate court’s reversal, and the Supreme Court’s upholding, of a decision that delivered a decisive blow to the centralizing and feudalistic institution of zoning.
