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The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In late February, Governor Evers signed Executive Order #13, withdrawing 112 Wisconsin National Guard personnel from the Southwest Border where they
Time for Evers and legislators to sit down at the bargaining table, e.g., combining a gas tax hike with transportation-related fees.
At the end of the day, Evers can only claim he is adding $294.1 million to local and state road improvements, while increasing taxes and fees by $600 million. His critics could add that without bonding, Evers would only be increasing total road spending by $69 million.
What may have been true for eight years under GOP’s departed governor Scott Walker is undergoing the crashing sounds of change.
Congressman Mark Pocan accomplished something remarkable last week. Amid all the wrangling in Washington, he proposed to end an injustice and got the House to go along with him.
Now that Gov. Tony Evers’ budget has been released, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, chart its path through the legislative process and the degree of partisan wrangling before its approval. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The Cap Times editorial board interviewed the candidates separately for about an hour each after the primary.
If, like a lot of us, you’ve had your fill of today’s politics and are disgusted with the control big money has over so much of our government, run out and get a book that has just hit the shelves.
The following is an excerpt from Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate, by Jonathan Kasparek, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The book is available through libraries and book retailers statewide and online at www.wisconsinhistory.org/store. The book is also available as an e-book.
There is no need to protect small businesses by forcing Wisconsin consumers to pay higher prices than they would pay in a freely competitive market.
As part of Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of open government that runs from March 10-16, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is bestowing its 13th annual Openness Awards, or Opees.
Wisconsin should join neighbors Minnesota and Michigan, and several other states, in authorizing the creation of these licensed mid-level professionals.
The renewed permission to hunt wolves in Wisconsin and other states suddenly announced by the Trump administration is just another sacrifice of natural resources belonging to all the people which this administration has zero interest in protecting.
Does Judge Lisa Neubauer agree with Justice Shirley Abrahamson that school vouchers are unconstitutional?
Because it opposes the choices of many of its customers.
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers introduced a very promising UW System budget proposal for the next biennium.
Wisconsin should assess property based upon fair market value and let the chips fall where they may. That’s how it works for your home and small owner-occupied businesses, and that is how it should work for larger commercial properties as well.
Right now it looks like an endless stalemate. But appearances can be deceiving.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his Republican colleagues in the state Assembly aren’t faring too well in the national conversation about whether white guys should be able to dictate who we celebrate during February’s Black History Month.
The great American parlor game for the last week has been dissecting the one public Michael Cohen hearing.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. In late February, Governor Evers signed Executive Order #13, withdrawing 112 Wisconsin National Guard personnel from the Southwest Border where they
Time for Evers and legislators to sit down at the bargaining table, e.g., combining a gas tax hike with transportation-related fees.
At the end of the day, Evers can only claim he is adding $294.1 million to local and state road improvements, while increasing taxes and fees by $600 million. His critics could add that without bonding, Evers would only be increasing total road spending by $69 million.
What may have been true for eight years under GOP’s departed governor Scott Walker is undergoing the crashing sounds of change.
Congressman Mark Pocan accomplished something remarkable last week. Amid all the wrangling in Washington, he proposed to end an injustice and got the House to go along with him.
Now that Gov. Tony Evers’ budget has been released, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, chart its path through the legislative process and the degree of partisan wrangling before its approval. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The Cap Times editorial board interviewed the candidates separately for about an hour each after the primary.
If, like a lot of us, you’ve had your fill of today’s politics and are disgusted with the control big money has over so much of our government, run out and get a book that has just hit the shelves.
The following is an excerpt from Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate, by Jonathan Kasparek, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The book is available through libraries and book retailers statewide and online at www.wisconsinhistory.org/store. The book is also available as an e-book.
There is no need to protect small businesses by forcing Wisconsin consumers to pay higher prices than they would pay in a freely competitive market.
As part of Sunshine Week, an annual celebration of open government that runs from March 10-16, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is bestowing its 13th annual Openness Awards, or Opees.
Wisconsin should join neighbors Minnesota and Michigan, and several other states, in authorizing the creation of these licensed mid-level professionals.
The renewed permission to hunt wolves in Wisconsin and other states suddenly announced by the Trump administration is just another sacrifice of natural resources belonging to all the people which this administration has zero interest in protecting.
Does Judge Lisa Neubauer agree with Justice Shirley Abrahamson that school vouchers are unconstitutional?
Because it opposes the choices of many of its customers.
Last week, Gov. Tony Evers introduced a very promising UW System budget proposal for the next biennium.
Wisconsin should assess property based upon fair market value and let the chips fall where they may. That’s how it works for your home and small owner-occupied businesses, and that is how it should work for larger commercial properties as well.
Right now it looks like an endless stalemate. But appearances can be deceiving.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his Republican colleagues in the state Assembly aren’t faring too well in the national conversation about whether white guys should be able to dictate who we celebrate during February’s Black History Month.
The great American parlor game for the last week has been dissecting the one public Michael Cohen hearing.
