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Just like we need police officers to keep us safe, we can also improve the security of our communities by giving our inmates the training that leads to good, well-paying jobs.
The problems that the Obamacare insurance exchanges have been facing in some states are a direct result of the uncertainty that the Trump administration has purposely created to undermine them. Some might call it sabotage.
In Evers’ Wisconsin, unions would continue to rule public education, forcing contracts on districts that make it nearly impossible to fire teachers for misconduct.
An open letter to the chairman of Foxconn.
Transparently describing the Foxconn subsidies as “subsidies” instead of “incentives” would flat out give the lie to Walker’s repeated pledge against using government to pick winners and losers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck sets the record straight on Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal.
Why are Johnson and Ryan still downplaying the scandal? Wisconsin GOP Representative Mike Gallagher is one of a handful of Republicans publicly distressed by the Russia-Trump scandal. Other Republicans need to put country before party.
Republicans in the White House and Congress have not tipped their hands on tax reform, other than to say they want corporate and personal income taxes to go south instead of north. Most importantly, they have not expressed themselves on one of the major drivers of the Trump aberration: a middle-class frustration with the inequity on how the nation’s economic pie is split up.
In their latest attack on the eggheads, Wisconsin Republicans have revived Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to force the University of Wisconsin System to keep track of the time professors spend teaching and to reward those “who teach more than a standard academic load.”
The continuously updated Writing in Stone cultural exhibit grasps what we’ve lost. It’s not intended as a political screed, but an art-based reflection on the past with historic use of the term progressive in law, society, science and personalities.
Treating children as adults, especially in violent offenses, may be enticing and appealing to some. But we must try to put emotion and anger aside. If we do, we will recognize that treating children as adults is not only unwise and unjust, it is also often counterproductive if the goal is to prevent the juvenile from re-offending in the future.
Cathy Stepp’s 6½-year tenure as Department of Natural Resources secretary proved that Wisconsin’s natural resources can’t be entrusted to someone serving at the governor’s whim.
Passed this month by the Assembly, 64-31, and the Senate, 20-13, the process now returns to state negotiators to finish writing the terms of the incentive package.
Walker is to sign the Foxconn subsidy bill in Sturtevant, where yes, there is an Amtrak station near Foxconn’s likely state-subsidized development site, but, no, there isn’t Amtrak service for potential Madison and Dane County Foxconn hirees whom Walker intentionally denied a federally-funded Amtrak connection.
The opportunity cost of not investing in transportation, the future education of our children and further incentivizing entrepreneurship is very real. Just like public school and university cuts paid for massive tax cuts the past few years, you can assume that taxpayer funding for Foxconn will come at the expense of these programs once again.
Government closest to the people, indeed. As long as its the government closest to her people.
Four consecutive victories have produced a level of unwarranted complacency among many conservatives about the state’s Supreme Court.
Many of the more credulous red-hat wearers believed in Trump’s preternatural deal-making ability, without any evidence to back it up.
It’s admirable to stand up for what you believe and to try to persuade voters that the nation would be better off with single payer, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and free college. There are reasonable arguments for all three. But all three are political losers outside the liberal base — at least right now.
The trend is really conservative boards destroying liberal universities so they can be remade into vocational schools, best achieved with hand-picked nonacademic leaders.
Just like we need police officers to keep us safe, we can also improve the security of our communities by giving our inmates the training that leads to good, well-paying jobs.
The problems that the Obamacare insurance exchanges have been facing in some states are a direct result of the uncertainty that the Trump administration has purposely created to undermine them. Some might call it sabotage.
In Evers’ Wisconsin, unions would continue to rule public education, forcing contracts on districts that make it nearly impossible to fire teachers for misconduct.
An open letter to the chairman of Foxconn.
Transparently describing the Foxconn subsidies as “subsidies” instead of “incentives” would flat out give the lie to Walker’s repeated pledge against using government to pick winners and losers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck sets the record straight on Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal.
Why are Johnson and Ryan still downplaying the scandal? Wisconsin GOP Representative Mike Gallagher is one of a handful of Republicans publicly distressed by the Russia-Trump scandal. Other Republicans need to put country before party.
Republicans in the White House and Congress have not tipped their hands on tax reform, other than to say they want corporate and personal income taxes to go south instead of north. Most importantly, they have not expressed themselves on one of the major drivers of the Trump aberration: a middle-class frustration with the inequity on how the nation’s economic pie is split up.
In their latest attack on the eggheads, Wisconsin Republicans have revived Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to force the University of Wisconsin System to keep track of the time professors spend teaching and to reward those “who teach more than a standard academic load.”
The continuously updated Writing in Stone cultural exhibit grasps what we’ve lost. It’s not intended as a political screed, but an art-based reflection on the past with historic use of the term progressive in law, society, science and personalities.
Treating children as adults, especially in violent offenses, may be enticing and appealing to some. But we must try to put emotion and anger aside. If we do, we will recognize that treating children as adults is not only unwise and unjust, it is also often counterproductive if the goal is to prevent the juvenile from re-offending in the future.
Cathy Stepp’s 6½-year tenure as Department of Natural Resources secretary proved that Wisconsin’s natural resources can’t be entrusted to someone serving at the governor’s whim.
Passed this month by the Assembly, 64-31, and the Senate, 20-13, the process now returns to state negotiators to finish writing the terms of the incentive package.
Walker is to sign the Foxconn subsidy bill in Sturtevant, where yes, there is an Amtrak station near Foxconn’s likely state-subsidized development site, but, no, there isn’t Amtrak service for potential Madison and Dane County Foxconn hirees whom Walker intentionally denied a federally-funded Amtrak connection.
The opportunity cost of not investing in transportation, the future education of our children and further incentivizing entrepreneurship is very real. Just like public school and university cuts paid for massive tax cuts the past few years, you can assume that taxpayer funding for Foxconn will come at the expense of these programs once again.
Government closest to the people, indeed. As long as its the government closest to her people.
Four consecutive victories have produced a level of unwarranted complacency among many conservatives about the state’s Supreme Court.
Many of the more credulous red-hat wearers believed in Trump’s preternatural deal-making ability, without any evidence to back it up.
It’s admirable to stand up for what you believe and to try to persuade voters that the nation would be better off with single payer, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and free college. There are reasonable arguments for all three. But all three are political losers outside the liberal base — at least right now.
The trend is really conservative boards destroying liberal universities so they can be remade into vocational schools, best achieved with hand-picked nonacademic leaders.
