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Local officials must abide by minimum retention periods, generally seven years, for most records. But a state lawmaker’s correspondence — say, a spate of letters and emails taking bitter issue with a given decision or proposal — can be purged or shredded at will.
Repealing Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law could actually cost taxpayers more than $300 million per year.
The state may be willing to take on the system moving forward, but not the responsibility for making up for past mistakes. That will remain with the county, which has to clean up its own mess.
Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
Yes, GOP gerrymandering matters. But they also have stronger candidates and message.
Advancing one’s partisan agenda should never be the sole order of the day. It’s a sad and dangerous commentary that the GOP will go to any lengths to win – even if it means undermining the very tenets of our Democracy.
Dems are growing restless over the lack of a promising candidate to take on Gov. Scott Walker.
Lately, Democrats have been all too willing to use overheated rhetoric and outright lies to turn their health care policy differences with Republicans into a clash of “good people” versus “evil people who literally want you to die.”
Most Medicaid recipients work, could lose health care under Walker proposal.
There’s no doubt that bringing thousands of new jobs to Wisconsin would be a boon to the state. But the potential Foxconn relocation also perfectly demonstrates that when we talk about jobs and the economy, we focus on the “seen” and neglect the “unseen.”
New chairman James Arthur Pope could turn foundation even further right
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was right in more ways than he knew when he said the court is “the outlier, and to pretend otherwise is simply in defiance of the facts.”
The Federal Reserve Board estimates that 55 percent of the assets in the average taxed estate haven’t ever previously been taxed because even though their value may have increased, they weren’t sold (and thus taxed) previous to death.
Loosen up regulations and mandates, so that Americans can choose to purchase insurance that suits their needs and that they can afford.
Assembly bill addresses issue. But how much coverage does it provide?
Someone needs to take Johnson aside and explain to him that many pre-existing health conditions arise involuntarily at birth or arrive through no-fault spread of disease, or have unknown origins.
More than 500,000 Wisconsin children are covered by Medicaid. These children, along with the 750,000 older, disabled and low-income Wisconsinites who rely on Medicaid, are now in jeopardy.
While the Obamacare haters in Wisconsin government blamed the “failed” ACA for Anthem’s withdrawal, the real story is that they have been sabotaging Obamacare for years, creating an environment for health insurance companies that made it untenable for many of them to stay in the marketplace.
The Supreme Court rendered what may prove to be one of its most important decisions protecting the free speech rights of Americans.
Wisconsinites ought to be cautious about any bill that implicates free speech rights in any way.
Local officials must abide by minimum retention periods, generally seven years, for most records. But a state lawmaker’s correspondence — say, a spate of letters and emails taking bitter issue with a given decision or proposal — can be purged or shredded at will.
Repealing Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law could actually cost taxpayers more than $300 million per year.
The state may be willing to take on the system moving forward, but not the responsibility for making up for past mistakes. That will remain with the county, which has to clean up its own mess.
Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
Yes, GOP gerrymandering matters. But they also have stronger candidates and message.
Advancing one’s partisan agenda should never be the sole order of the day. It’s a sad and dangerous commentary that the GOP will go to any lengths to win – even if it means undermining the very tenets of our Democracy.
Dems are growing restless over the lack of a promising candidate to take on Gov. Scott Walker.
Lately, Democrats have been all too willing to use overheated rhetoric and outright lies to turn their health care policy differences with Republicans into a clash of “good people” versus “evil people who literally want you to die.”
Most Medicaid recipients work, could lose health care under Walker proposal.
There’s no doubt that bringing thousands of new jobs to Wisconsin would be a boon to the state. But the potential Foxconn relocation also perfectly demonstrates that when we talk about jobs and the economy, we focus on the “seen” and neglect the “unseen.”
New chairman James Arthur Pope could turn foundation even further right
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was right in more ways than he knew when he said the court is “the outlier, and to pretend otherwise is simply in defiance of the facts.”
The Federal Reserve Board estimates that 55 percent of the assets in the average taxed estate haven’t ever previously been taxed because even though their value may have increased, they weren’t sold (and thus taxed) previous to death.
Loosen up regulations and mandates, so that Americans can choose to purchase insurance that suits their needs and that they can afford.
Assembly bill addresses issue. But how much coverage does it provide?
Someone needs to take Johnson aside and explain to him that many pre-existing health conditions arise involuntarily at birth or arrive through no-fault spread of disease, or have unknown origins.
More than 500,000 Wisconsin children are covered by Medicaid. These children, along with the 750,000 older, disabled and low-income Wisconsinites who rely on Medicaid, are now in jeopardy.
While the Obamacare haters in Wisconsin government blamed the “failed” ACA for Anthem’s withdrawal, the real story is that they have been sabotaging Obamacare for years, creating an environment for health insurance companies that made it untenable for many of them to stay in the marketplace.
The Supreme Court rendered what may prove to be one of its most important decisions protecting the free speech rights of Americans.
Wisconsinites ought to be cautious about any bill that implicates free speech rights in any way.
