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October marks the annual celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This month is a chance to celebrate job seekers with disabilities who are striving to work, and employers who are recruiting talented employees with disabilities.
Health insurance for kids declined in some states including Wisconsin under Walker. Why?
Election reforms that are designed to wrest control from the major parties and to fix political dysfunction are gaining support.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has bumbled his way into center of impeachment investigation.
While U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is definitely Trump’s Wisconsin bullpen ace, former log-rolling champion, reality TV show personality and ex-GOP Congressman Sean Duffy is a late-season call-up who could throw an inning or two.
To put it bluntly, it’s nothing less than extortion.
The problem with many zero-tolerance policies is that they fail to account for the context, motive, intent and circumstances of any given situation; and thus, can lead to absurd results.
‘Rich people shouldn’t be the beneficiaries’ of a federal program that gives investors tax breaks to help disadvantaged areas, critics say.
Whereas many states offer tax incentives for solar, the policies that have propelled Europe and a few states in this country into higher solar use are incentives based on installations’ energy productivity. The combination of tax and production-based incentives create a faster payback period.
Simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing PA practice authority in Wisconsin will increase the number of PAs in the state and help us to close the gap created by the provider shortage. The CARES Act is crucial to meeting that goal.
Evers has still been able to outmaneuver Fitzgerald and Vos, especially on budget issues. And now, the governor is calling for a special session to consider ways to promote public safety, but Fitzgerald’s response is simply to say “no.”
This is a highly regressive tax that would be levied on a household necessity without regard to income.
Hamilton and council members are to blame for losing hundreds of jobs, Sheehy says.
Is it too much to ask that our state’s deliberative body of government actually engage in some deliberation? Evidently, when it comes to gun laws, the answer is yes.
In a divided government, there are two ways to lead: With an outstretched hand or a cocked fist; as a hopeful dealmaker or as a jaded partisan. Governor Evers has once again chosen the latter, and in so doing has thrown away any hope of compromise with the Wisconsin Legislature for a chance at politically embarrassing it.
The ACA works well; millions are covered. Premiums are down nationally and in Wisconsin.
The Iowa County Board voted 14-2 earlier this month to spend up to $50,000 to join a court challenge to the PSC decision that effectively thumbed its nose at more than 1,000 citizens who pleaded with the commissioners to deny the American Transmission Company permission to construct the 120-mile-long line.
A majority of Wisconsinites show that they don’t know some of the most important parts about the impeachment proceedings — demonstrating that lack of support for impeachment is based on a lack of data.
State Sen. Lena Taylor helped kill a deal bringing hundreds of jobs to depressed Century City area.
The following is an excerpt from “Disassembled: A Native Son on Janesville and General Motors – a Story of Grit, Race, Gender and Wishful Thinking and What it Means for America,” written by former Janesville Democratic Sen. Tim Cullen and edited by Doug Moe. The book can be purchased here
October marks the annual celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This month is a chance to celebrate job seekers with disabilities who are striving to work, and employers who are recruiting talented employees with disabilities.
Health insurance for kids declined in some states including Wisconsin under Walker. Why?
Election reforms that are designed to wrest control from the major parties and to fix political dysfunction are gaining support.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has bumbled his way into center of impeachment investigation.
While U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is definitely Trump’s Wisconsin bullpen ace, former log-rolling champion, reality TV show personality and ex-GOP Congressman Sean Duffy is a late-season call-up who could throw an inning or two.
To put it bluntly, it’s nothing less than extortion.
The problem with many zero-tolerance policies is that they fail to account for the context, motive, intent and circumstances of any given situation; and thus, can lead to absurd results.
‘Rich people shouldn’t be the beneficiaries’ of a federal program that gives investors tax breaks to help disadvantaged areas, critics say.
Whereas many states offer tax incentives for solar, the policies that have propelled Europe and a few states in this country into higher solar use are incentives based on installations’ energy productivity. The combination of tax and production-based incentives create a faster payback period.
Simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing PA practice authority in Wisconsin will increase the number of PAs in the state and help us to close the gap created by the provider shortage. The CARES Act is crucial to meeting that goal.
Evers has still been able to outmaneuver Fitzgerald and Vos, especially on budget issues. And now, the governor is calling for a special session to consider ways to promote public safety, but Fitzgerald’s response is simply to say “no.”
This is a highly regressive tax that would be levied on a household necessity without regard to income.
Hamilton and council members are to blame for losing hundreds of jobs, Sheehy says.
Is it too much to ask that our state’s deliberative body of government actually engage in some deliberation? Evidently, when it comes to gun laws, the answer is yes.
In a divided government, there are two ways to lead: With an outstretched hand or a cocked fist; as a hopeful dealmaker or as a jaded partisan. Governor Evers has once again chosen the latter, and in so doing has thrown away any hope of compromise with the Wisconsin Legislature for a chance at politically embarrassing it.
The ACA works well; millions are covered. Premiums are down nationally and in Wisconsin.
The Iowa County Board voted 14-2 earlier this month to spend up to $50,000 to join a court challenge to the PSC decision that effectively thumbed its nose at more than 1,000 citizens who pleaded with the commissioners to deny the American Transmission Company permission to construct the 120-mile-long line.
A majority of Wisconsinites show that they don’t know some of the most important parts about the impeachment proceedings — demonstrating that lack of support for impeachment is based on a lack of data.
State Sen. Lena Taylor helped kill a deal bringing hundreds of jobs to depressed Century City area.
The following is an excerpt from “Disassembled: A Native Son on Janesville and General Motors – a Story of Grit, Race, Gender and Wishful Thinking and What it Means for America,” written by former Janesville Democratic Sen. Tim Cullen and edited by Doug Moe. The book can be purchased here
