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In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after President Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree.
Packaging state resources into a powerful program to create jobs over a wide array of communities is the smartest thing to have emerged from our statehouse in a very long time. And my party needs to get on board this plan and provide hearty support.
So far the most effective Democratic strategy appears to be, as the kids say, “ghosting” — hiding under your Capitol Hill desk and waiting for all the announcements to blow over. Then, whether the deal works or doesn’t, you can take credit either way.
Walker’s proven conservation hostility is again on full display through the bill he crafted secretly to exempt the Foxconn development from an what should be a routine Environmental Impact Statement review, thus eliminating in advance the best method to catalogue and protect wetlands and connected resources the project would harm.
I’d like to see the Foxconn deal pitched like Chantix, Lyrica and Viagra, with all the disclaimers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on an idea floated to let governors run health care in their own states.
We’re just about to observe the 72nd anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb on Japan. And the truth is that the world today is too dangerous a place for nuclear weapons.
Are we watching the rule of law, essential to American democracy, being slow-cooked to death?
As befits a year in which anything, it seems, can happen, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s public records docket this term was marked by atypical cases.
Urban Agriculture has the ability to propel Milwaukee forward.
If we’re going to spend $3 billion, should it be to subsidize the expansion of one company from Taiwan, or should we spend it to empower the more than 5 million people who call Wisconsin home?
It is almost impossible to overstate how important the recently announced Foxconn deal is for Wisconsin. Economically, culturally, and politically, it is the biggest deal for Wisconsin in a generation.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on backlash against the deal for a Foxconn manufacturing operation in southeast Wisconsin.
Mitch Henck’s argument is that this deal is all about jobs, jobs and jobs, and that we should be grateful for the plans that Gov. Scott Walker has laid out for us to get those jobs. But there has to be a measured approach to the impact that the Foxconn deal will have for whatever area they locate to, as well as the rest of the state.
Or more accurately, “The trouble with the Republican response to the Foxconn proposal.”
Marginal jobs for enormous tax subsidies, plus air and water pollution.
The rules for nomination allow any senator to use hours — sometimes days — of precious Senate floor time to debate the confirmation of that nominee. But that rule is being abused, as evidenced by the first six months of the Obama and Trump administrations.
It is being reported that the White House is not wed to having congressional Republicans use the budget reconciliation process to advance a tax overhaul. Excellent news for those who want a bi-partisan attempt made at crafting a bill.
As someone who has spent his life on the job, dealing with health issues, raising a family and serving his country, he is a far more believable representative of a community of hard-working people that has grown increasingly angry at Ryan’s reputation as a GOP intellectual leader.
Families of color are among those facing the most difficulty getting by, as they continue to feel the effect of generations of wealth-stripping policies targeting households and communities of color.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after President Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree.
Packaging state resources into a powerful program to create jobs over a wide array of communities is the smartest thing to have emerged from our statehouse in a very long time. And my party needs to get on board this plan and provide hearty support.
So far the most effective Democratic strategy appears to be, as the kids say, “ghosting” — hiding under your Capitol Hill desk and waiting for all the announcements to blow over. Then, whether the deal works or doesn’t, you can take credit either way.
Walker’s proven conservation hostility is again on full display through the bill he crafted secretly to exempt the Foxconn development from an what should be a routine Environmental Impact Statement review, thus eliminating in advance the best method to catalogue and protect wetlands and connected resources the project would harm.
I’d like to see the Foxconn deal pitched like Chantix, Lyrica and Viagra, with all the disclaimers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on an idea floated to let governors run health care in their own states.
We’re just about to observe the 72nd anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb on Japan. And the truth is that the world today is too dangerous a place for nuclear weapons.
Are we watching the rule of law, essential to American democracy, being slow-cooked to death?
As befits a year in which anything, it seems, can happen, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s public records docket this term was marked by atypical cases.
Urban Agriculture has the ability to propel Milwaukee forward.
If we’re going to spend $3 billion, should it be to subsidize the expansion of one company from Taiwan, or should we spend it to empower the more than 5 million people who call Wisconsin home?
It is almost impossible to overstate how important the recently announced Foxconn deal is for Wisconsin. Economically, culturally, and politically, it is the biggest deal for Wisconsin in a generation.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on backlash against the deal for a Foxconn manufacturing operation in southeast Wisconsin.
Mitch Henck’s argument is that this deal is all about jobs, jobs and jobs, and that we should be grateful for the plans that Gov. Scott Walker has laid out for us to get those jobs. But there has to be a measured approach to the impact that the Foxconn deal will have for whatever area they locate to, as well as the rest of the state.
Or more accurately, “The trouble with the Republican response to the Foxconn proposal.”
Marginal jobs for enormous tax subsidies, plus air and water pollution.
The rules for nomination allow any senator to use hours — sometimes days — of precious Senate floor time to debate the confirmation of that nominee. But that rule is being abused, as evidenced by the first six months of the Obama and Trump administrations.
It is being reported that the White House is not wed to having congressional Republicans use the budget reconciliation process to advance a tax overhaul. Excellent news for those who want a bi-partisan attempt made at crafting a bill.
As someone who has spent his life on the job, dealing with health issues, raising a family and serving his country, he is a far more believable representative of a community of hard-working people that has grown increasingly angry at Ryan’s reputation as a GOP intellectual leader.
Families of color are among those facing the most difficulty getting by, as they continue to feel the effect of generations of wealth-stripping policies targeting households and communities of color.
