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LFB’s re-estimates show an increase of $4.4 billion above January estimates, with a projected ending balance in the 2021-23 budget of $5.7 billion. That flood of projected cash raises a critical question: Will taxpayers get that money back or will they get Tonied?
The only sensible and fiscally prudent thing to do is to continue to spend within a reasonable means and return a sizeable balance of what might be termed “the stimulus dividend” to the taxpayers.
Now that we are somewhat stabilized and on the mend, thanks in large part to government intervention and funding, it’s time for the Biden administration to look ahead and build a more robust economy. Collaboration with industry, as with the COVID vaccine, points the way forward.
The best way to rebuild economy and a strong middle class. Wisconsin and nation must do more.
The powerful hand of government along with the means to tax and fund such projects is what is required so to impact a host of needs people are facing. The average person is not able to effect such change. Former Madison Mayor Sue Bauman well understood that fact.
U.S. Senate candidate’s claim to back family-supporting jobs exaggerates, distorts truth.
Republican efforts to try to diminish the significance of the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 continue.
He could have stood up to Trump several times these past few years, but always bowed to him when the chips were down.
In a league that is supposedly so woke, the NBA and NBA Players Union refuse to speak the truth about the racist nature of fan behavior.
By preventing students from accessing ways to grow collectively with peers through a team experience, these bills harm youth on and off the playing field, cisgender and transgender, through intentional outing and exclusion.
Ex-governor and EPA leader raised legal pollution level to aid Foxconn plan.
With competition and leadership from automakers new and old and forward-looking conservative policy, the United States and Wisconsin can lead the race.
It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat in our elections, and S.B. 204 moves Wisconsin closer to this goal by establishing a fair, transparent and more secure process for absentee voting that people can trust.
Over 500 colleges and universities will require students to be vaccinated before showing up on campus this fall. But not the University of Wisconsin. That has to change.
Barnes hasn’t decided whether to run for another term as lieutenant governor or to enter the Senate race. But his speech was the most potent of the Democratic state convention.
As evidence grows that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, says we’ve learned two things: the mainstream media was again expertly performed its role as “useful idiots” and we are at the cusp of a renewed Cold War with China.
The DNR should require an Environmental Impact Statement for a huge industrial hog operation proposed for Crawford County in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin.
Vaccination has proven to be transformative and is the key to continuing this progress and to keeping you and your family safe.
Wisconsin GOP leaders have a long history of rejecting federal funding.
Now they’re putting the state in danger of losing another $1.5 billion in education aid because they refuse to make a minimum increase in state funding for Wisconsin schools.
LFB’s re-estimates show an increase of $4.4 billion above January estimates, with a projected ending balance in the 2021-23 budget of $5.7 billion. That flood of projected cash raises a critical question: Will taxpayers get that money back or will they get Tonied?
The only sensible and fiscally prudent thing to do is to continue to spend within a reasonable means and return a sizeable balance of what might be termed “the stimulus dividend” to the taxpayers.
Now that we are somewhat stabilized and on the mend, thanks in large part to government intervention and funding, it’s time for the Biden administration to look ahead and build a more robust economy. Collaboration with industry, as with the COVID vaccine, points the way forward.
The best way to rebuild economy and a strong middle class. Wisconsin and nation must do more.
The powerful hand of government along with the means to tax and fund such projects is what is required so to impact a host of needs people are facing. The average person is not able to effect such change. Former Madison Mayor Sue Bauman well understood that fact.
U.S. Senate candidate’s claim to back family-supporting jobs exaggerates, distorts truth.
Republican efforts to try to diminish the significance of the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 continue.
He could have stood up to Trump several times these past few years, but always bowed to him when the chips were down.
In a league that is supposedly so woke, the NBA and NBA Players Union refuse to speak the truth about the racist nature of fan behavior.
By preventing students from accessing ways to grow collectively with peers through a team experience, these bills harm youth on and off the playing field, cisgender and transgender, through intentional outing and exclusion.
Ex-governor and EPA leader raised legal pollution level to aid Foxconn plan.
With competition and leadership from automakers new and old and forward-looking conservative policy, the United States and Wisconsin can lead the race.
It should be easy to vote and hard to cheat in our elections, and S.B. 204 moves Wisconsin closer to this goal by establishing a fair, transparent and more secure process for absentee voting that people can trust.
Over 500 colleges and universities will require students to be vaccinated before showing up on campus this fall. But not the University of Wisconsin. That has to change.
Barnes hasn’t decided whether to run for another term as lieutenant governor or to enter the Senate race. But his speech was the most potent of the Democratic state convention.
As evidence grows that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Allouez, says we’ve learned two things: the mainstream media was again expertly performed its role as “useful idiots” and we are at the cusp of a renewed Cold War with China.
The DNR should require an Environmental Impact Statement for a huge industrial hog operation proposed for Crawford County in the Driftless Region of southwest Wisconsin.
Vaccination has proven to be transformative and is the key to continuing this progress and to keeping you and your family safe.
Wisconsin GOP leaders have a long history of rejecting federal funding.
Now they’re putting the state in danger of losing another $1.5 billion in education aid because they refuse to make a minimum increase in state funding for Wisconsin schools.
