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What’s missing in the UW-Stevens Point conversation, which has attracted noticed nationwide, is an honest assessment of what employers expect from college graduates they hire. Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – or a liberal arts background that may be more adaptable? The confusing answer is both.
Despite “sunset,” taxpayers will subsidize stadium until 2040, with total costs unknown.
Last year, Congress repealed the individual mandate tax penalty, leaving only the unconstitutional mandate. This change rendered the individual mandate unconstitutional under Justice Roberts’ reasoning in the Supreme Court upholding the law. After all, the mandate no longer raises “some revenue.” And without the mandate, the rest of the law falls.
Wisconsin was one of three improbable state victories that propelled Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. But without immediate Republican Party course corrections, the state’s conservative revolution could screech to a halt after the November elections, or even be reversed in some areas.
Because of a mistake in the tax bill Congress passed last year, we have watched trucks that usually stop at our grain elevators drive a little further up the road to sell to someone else. The reason for this uncertainty is an unintended glitch in the tax bill that gives farmers an enormous incentive to sell to cooperatives, not independent businesses like mine.
Republicans in the state Legislature are proposing to send so many more people to prison that the state would have to build at least one new facility to hold them all.
When Leah Vukmir was given the opportunity to create positive change for her family and families across the state, she didn’t just talk.
Bronson La Follette inherited a famous name that helped him to be politically viable in Wisconsin, but that also put great pressure on him to renew and maintain Wisconsin’s progressive heritage.
In our current budget, we provided more actual dollars into K-12 education than ever before in the history of Wisconsin: an extra $200 per student in every school this year and another $204 per student on top of that next school year.
As the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial carnival rolls from town to town, it appears Walker’s only serious opponent is Donald Trump.
The GOP in complete control in Washington is making the Democrats look like pikers when it comes to spending money.
On economics and foreign policy, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson displays two faces.
On April 3, Wisconsin voters will be asked if they want to remove the office of state treasurer from our state’s Constitution. Should this amendment pass, Wisconsin would be the only state without a treasurer or financial equivalent, a position that provides a critical check on the state’s executive and legislative branches.
There’s an easy answer: public financing of elections, or a merit-based and bipartisan selection process.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, look forward to the end of the legislative session and debate Gov. Scott Walker’s child tax rebate. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Over time, both parties consolidated power in the hands of the governor and a few powerful legislative leaders. Partly as a result, the ideological fringes within government grew more strident and potent, and chances for any lingering spirit of collaboration evaporated.
Wisconsin needs to close and replace the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison, and we need to do it now. Unfortunately, the bipartisan bill has turned partisan, and some lawmakers want to undermine progress for a press release.
It would be shameful if the Democrats, facing the opportunity of a lifetime in federal and state races, chose this moment to break up over self-imposed litmus tests.
RIP UWSP as you once were. You had a good run. Remember your champions now gone: Gov. Dreyfus and the late Bill Bablitch, your state senator and then Supreme Court justice.
Our GOP Attorney General continues to give these horrible corporate actors a pass by refusing to sue or join other states’ litigation.
What’s missing in the UW-Stevens Point conversation, which has attracted noticed nationwide, is an honest assessment of what employers expect from college graduates they hire. Do they want an emphasis on STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – or a liberal arts background that may be more adaptable? The confusing answer is both.
Despite “sunset,” taxpayers will subsidize stadium until 2040, with total costs unknown.
Last year, Congress repealed the individual mandate tax penalty, leaving only the unconstitutional mandate. This change rendered the individual mandate unconstitutional under Justice Roberts’ reasoning in the Supreme Court upholding the law. After all, the mandate no longer raises “some revenue.” And without the mandate, the rest of the law falls.
Wisconsin was one of three improbable state victories that propelled Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. But without immediate Republican Party course corrections, the state’s conservative revolution could screech to a halt after the November elections, or even be reversed in some areas.
Because of a mistake in the tax bill Congress passed last year, we have watched trucks that usually stop at our grain elevators drive a little further up the road to sell to someone else. The reason for this uncertainty is an unintended glitch in the tax bill that gives farmers an enormous incentive to sell to cooperatives, not independent businesses like mine.
Republicans in the state Legislature are proposing to send so many more people to prison that the state would have to build at least one new facility to hold them all.
When Leah Vukmir was given the opportunity to create positive change for her family and families across the state, she didn’t just talk.
Bronson La Follette inherited a famous name that helped him to be politically viable in Wisconsin, but that also put great pressure on him to renew and maintain Wisconsin’s progressive heritage.
In our current budget, we provided more actual dollars into K-12 education than ever before in the history of Wisconsin: an extra $200 per student in every school this year and another $204 per student on top of that next school year.
As the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial carnival rolls from town to town, it appears Walker’s only serious opponent is Donald Trump.
The GOP in complete control in Washington is making the Democrats look like pikers when it comes to spending money.
On economics and foreign policy, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson displays two faces.
On April 3, Wisconsin voters will be asked if they want to remove the office of state treasurer from our state’s Constitution. Should this amendment pass, Wisconsin would be the only state without a treasurer or financial equivalent, a position that provides a critical check on the state’s executive and legislative branches.
There’s an easy answer: public financing of elections, or a merit-based and bipartisan selection process.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, look forward to the end of the legislative session and debate Gov. Scott Walker’s child tax rebate. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Over time, both parties consolidated power in the hands of the governor and a few powerful legislative leaders. Partly as a result, the ideological fringes within government grew more strident and potent, and chances for any lingering spirit of collaboration evaporated.
Wisconsin needs to close and replace the Lincoln Hills juvenile prison, and we need to do it now. Unfortunately, the bipartisan bill has turned partisan, and some lawmakers want to undermine progress for a press release.
It would be shameful if the Democrats, facing the opportunity of a lifetime in federal and state races, chose this moment to break up over self-imposed litmus tests.
RIP UWSP as you once were. You had a good run. Remember your champions now gone: Gov. Dreyfus and the late Bill Bablitch, your state senator and then Supreme Court justice.
Our GOP Attorney General continues to give these horrible corporate actors a pass by refusing to sue or join other states’ litigation.
