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Gov. Evers’ budget includes an 8-cent gas tax hike with automatic increases tied to inflation, but a small group of Republican lawmakers have an alternative plan. They say it could save the DOT $22.8 million a year through efficiencies and negate the need to raise the gas tax. They’re calling it the “Road to Sustainability Package.”
Joint Finance Committee Republicans froze university tuition for another two years, but declined to make up for the shortfall with increased state funds. Instead, they cut roughly in half the UW aid Evers recommended.
The conservative Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump White House tried to keep a U.S. Navy destroyer, named for Senator John McCain, out of view during Trump’s trip to Japan.
The failure to increase the gas tax is perhaps a sign of Evers’ lack of any rapport with the Republicans in the legislature.
Eight years ago, more than 200 scientists, researchers, educators and environmentalists warned that climate change could affect Wisconsin in major ways.
Under U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan’s suggested calendar, the House would be in session for two consecutive five-day weeks, followed by two consecutive weeks at home. That would provide more time on the floor, more time in Washington and more uninterrupted time at home.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen and Chvala, debate the meaning of continuing mixed signals on the Foxconn project. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
In an hour-long conversation in her office, Cheatham said she sees the intensity around school debates as inevitable because Madison is still coming to grips with how to get to a healthy and diverse school system that works for all children.
There’s been nothing partisan about the League’s efforts. It fought Democrats who tried to suppress the black vote in the south and Republicans and their efforts to make it tougher to vote in the north.
More jobs. Increasing take-home pay. Growing confidence in the economy and in our labor market. These are all good signs for the future.
Violent words can bruise and wound. Their damage to our democracy is deep and wide – beyond calculation. Can we learn from the violence in Congress almost 200 years ago? The outcome then was not good.
Enacting automatic voter registration would exacerbate the potential for fraud and ineligible voting while simultaneously infringing on the rights of those who don’t wish to participate.
Study finds Wisconsin has nearly double the national rate and 91% killed with guns.
Parents are free to homeschool their unvaccinated kids.
The mining industry has updated its practices and technology, and our laws have also been updated over time. Act 134 maintained strong environmental standards without preempting local regulations or adding exemptions to environmental standards.
Mining industry representative Nathan Conrad, in his May 15 Cap Times column, repeats the discredited statements and vague promises used to support 2017 Act 134 to push unsafe mining on Wisconsin. Conrad claims the new law maintained environmental protections, when in fact it gutted many protections and public rights for mining proposals.
Not very, the data suggests. Is there any way to change this?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson sat down with the Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens to discuss a wide variety of contemporary political issues in Wisconsin, and to share what he has been doing since his retirement from public office.
Republicans pass on fixing broken school funding system.
Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.
Gov. Evers’ budget includes an 8-cent gas tax hike with automatic increases tied to inflation, but a small group of Republican lawmakers have an alternative plan. They say it could save the DOT $22.8 million a year through efficiencies and negate the need to raise the gas tax. They’re calling it the “Road to Sustainability Package.”
Joint Finance Committee Republicans froze university tuition for another two years, but declined to make up for the shortfall with increased state funds. Instead, they cut roughly in half the UW aid Evers recommended.
The conservative Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump White House tried to keep a U.S. Navy destroyer, named for Senator John McCain, out of view during Trump’s trip to Japan.
The failure to increase the gas tax is perhaps a sign of Evers’ lack of any rapport with the Republicans in the legislature.
Eight years ago, more than 200 scientists, researchers, educators and environmentalists warned that climate change could affect Wisconsin in major ways.
Under U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan’s suggested calendar, the House would be in session for two consecutive five-day weeks, followed by two consecutive weeks at home. That would provide more time on the floor, more time in Washington and more uninterrupted time at home.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen and Chvala, debate the meaning of continuing mixed signals on the Foxconn project. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
In an hour-long conversation in her office, Cheatham said she sees the intensity around school debates as inevitable because Madison is still coming to grips with how to get to a healthy and diverse school system that works for all children.
There’s been nothing partisan about the League’s efforts. It fought Democrats who tried to suppress the black vote in the south and Republicans and their efforts to make it tougher to vote in the north.
More jobs. Increasing take-home pay. Growing confidence in the economy and in our labor market. These are all good signs for the future.
Violent words can bruise and wound. Their damage to our democracy is deep and wide – beyond calculation. Can we learn from the violence in Congress almost 200 years ago? The outcome then was not good.
Enacting automatic voter registration would exacerbate the potential for fraud and ineligible voting while simultaneously infringing on the rights of those who don’t wish to participate.
Study finds Wisconsin has nearly double the national rate and 91% killed with guns.
Parents are free to homeschool their unvaccinated kids.
The mining industry has updated its practices and technology, and our laws have also been updated over time. Act 134 maintained strong environmental standards without preempting local regulations or adding exemptions to environmental standards.
Mining industry representative Nathan Conrad, in his May 15 Cap Times column, repeats the discredited statements and vague promises used to support 2017 Act 134 to push unsafe mining on Wisconsin. Conrad claims the new law maintained environmental protections, when in fact it gutted many protections and public rights for mining proposals.
Not very, the data suggests. Is there any way to change this?
Former Gov. Tommy Thompson sat down with the Thompson Center Director Ryan Owens to discuss a wide variety of contemporary political issues in Wisconsin, and to share what he has been doing since his retirement from public office.
Republicans pass on fixing broken school funding system.
Sixty-two percent of the voters in the April election signaled that they wanted to keep the treasurer’s position. And no serious observer imagined that the people wanted simply to keep the treasurer’s job on the list of the state’s constitutional offices. They wanted an actual state treasurer, with the powers that were traditionally associated with the office.