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The work of elected or appointed officials need not be at odds with reporters. But when they are at odds, the needs of the citizens to be aware of how their government operates must always prevail.
What is needed is a new willingness to think big, go bold, and see things through. To show the largeness of spirit that this moment requires.
All signs point to voters across America, including Wisconsin, voting for change in November.
As a number of prominent conservative organizations in Wisconsin have pointed out, the bailout of a paper mill company like Kimberly-Clark, a legacy industry with an uncertain future, will just lead to more hands being stretched out to the taxpayers whenever an employer is in trouble. Why this company and not another one?
There comes a time when the taxpayers have to say enough is enough to corporate greed. This is one of them.
Walker’s effort to maneuver a $100 million taxpayer subsidy to the profitable, hardly-a-fledgling-start up Kimberly-Clark Corp. has nothing to do with helping workers in Wisconsin.
In 2005 Leah Vukmir, Sheila Harsdorf and Robin Vos backed a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain to transfer a privately-owned property to a corporation. But now they are silent on Foxconn’s land grab in Mount Pleasant.
Wisconsin’s “justice system” has become more of a “vengeance system” than a justice system in recent decades.
The WisOpinion Insiders give their take on former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s prison reform ideas. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Could people be growing tired of the cultural wars and instead just want political leaders who focus on better schools, roads, health care and jobs, more than some minuscule tax cut?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who once presided over the largest expansion of Wisconsin’s prison system, said one of the biggest regrets of his political career was his role in building so many prisons in Wisconsin and getting “caught up in the hysteria of lockin’ ‘em up.”
Attorney General Schimel is a judicial branch lap dog. He takes his direction from the judiciary rather than the citizens of Wisconsin who elected him.
Schimel and Walker support changes in Affordable Care Act most voters oppose. Why?
They picked the wrong candidate. That could hand election to Baldwin.
In separate interviews and comments at Milwaukee suburban meet and greets Sept. 9, Baldwin and her special guest, Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock, were thinking independently but were natural allies sharing what they’ve learned on the trail.
Somers is heading for financial disaster, virtually ensuring that property tax revenue from new development for the next couple decades will be locked up in TIF spending.
Schimel decided his friend should head the Division of Criminal Investigation, circumventing the law and transforming the long-established nonpartisan position into a political appointee subject to the AG’s influence.
It’s so easy in Wisconsin. Though it’s not very democratic.
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed he will split the U.S. Supreme Court right down the middle. A Yale lawyer, he’ll even the score. Four justices will be Yale-educated while four will have been churned out by Harvard Law School. The Notorious RBG went to Columbia Law School, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Harvard undergrad, so I guess advantage Crimson.
The evidence is clear that while the nation’s economy is enjoying fabulous growth in jobs and wages, Wisconsin is one of the states leading the pack.
The work of elected or appointed officials need not be at odds with reporters. But when they are at odds, the needs of the citizens to be aware of how their government operates must always prevail.
What is needed is a new willingness to think big, go bold, and see things through. To show the largeness of spirit that this moment requires.
All signs point to voters across America, including Wisconsin, voting for change in November.
As a number of prominent conservative organizations in Wisconsin have pointed out, the bailout of a paper mill company like Kimberly-Clark, a legacy industry with an uncertain future, will just lead to more hands being stretched out to the taxpayers whenever an employer is in trouble. Why this company and not another one?
There comes a time when the taxpayers have to say enough is enough to corporate greed. This is one of them.
Walker’s effort to maneuver a $100 million taxpayer subsidy to the profitable, hardly-a-fledgling-start up Kimberly-Clark Corp. has nothing to do with helping workers in Wisconsin.
In 2005 Leah Vukmir, Sheila Harsdorf and Robin Vos backed a law that prohibits the use of eminent domain to transfer a privately-owned property to a corporation. But now they are silent on Foxconn’s land grab in Mount Pleasant.
Wisconsin’s “justice system” has become more of a “vengeance system” than a justice system in recent decades.
The WisOpinion Insiders give their take on former Gov. Tommy Thompson’s prison reform ideas. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Could people be growing tired of the cultural wars and instead just want political leaders who focus on better schools, roads, health care and jobs, more than some minuscule tax cut?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who once presided over the largest expansion of Wisconsin’s prison system, said one of the biggest regrets of his political career was his role in building so many prisons in Wisconsin and getting “caught up in the hysteria of lockin’ ‘em up.”
Attorney General Schimel is a judicial branch lap dog. He takes his direction from the judiciary rather than the citizens of Wisconsin who elected him.
Schimel and Walker support changes in Affordable Care Act most voters oppose. Why?
They picked the wrong candidate. That could hand election to Baldwin.
In separate interviews and comments at Milwaukee suburban meet and greets Sept. 9, Baldwin and her special guest, Emily’s List president Stephanie Schriock, were thinking independently but were natural allies sharing what they’ve learned on the trail.
Somers is heading for financial disaster, virtually ensuring that property tax revenue from new development for the next couple decades will be locked up in TIF spending.
Schimel decided his friend should head the Division of Criminal Investigation, circumventing the law and transforming the long-established nonpartisan position into a political appointee subject to the AG’s influence.
It’s so easy in Wisconsin. Though it’s not very democratic.
If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed he will split the U.S. Supreme Court right down the middle. A Yale lawyer, he’ll even the score. Four justices will be Yale-educated while four will have been churned out by Harvard Law School. The Notorious RBG went to Columbia Law School, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a Harvard undergrad, so I guess advantage Crimson.
The evidence is clear that while the nation’s economy is enjoying fabulous growth in jobs and wages, Wisconsin is one of the states leading the pack.
