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As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.
The White House continued its careen out of control by adding sanctuary attacks to its judicial failures – and then criticizing the appeals court that has yet to hear the case.
Mark Pocan is focused on the future. And the work he does now will do far more to shape that future than the empty promises of Koch brother corporatists like Walker and self-absorbed grifters like Trump.
ALEC ranks state high for its policies, but they haven’t improved economy.
A rightwing group called the Texas Public Policy Foundation started lobbying in Wisconsin for the first time last month.
Nothing exposed the callous disregard these Walker and Ryan have for their fellow human beings than the recent debate — and debacle — over the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
Governor Scott Walker and Republicans across the country are paving the way for more experimentation and innovation in their efforts to help people move from dependency to work.
Gov. Scott Walker, in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s request for states to “innovate” their Medicaid programs, has laid out a proposal that would decrease access to health care for our most vulnerable, humiliate and marginalize those with addiction, and increase government bureaucracy.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates recent Republican block grant proposals could cut Medicaid spending by as much as a third over the next decade. The cuts would start small, growing larger over the years.
State schools got $107 million in 2015, helped pay for school nurses, speech therapists.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. As the head of a manufacturing business, I’m a strong advocate for career and technical education, and post-secondary pathways that prepare
Grocers Association blocking the free market.
While those who want to overturn Citizens United complain that “money isn’t speech,” their speech is being funded by taxpayer money that pays for their ridiculous advisory referendums.
Human weakness is eternal and there are always politicians and officials looking for help with their career or political fundraising. Which is why there will always be the influence peddlers, jostling to win favors and stay in power. But very few of those lobbyists ever did it with such rascally, unpretentious joy as Bill Gerrard.
David Clarke should be removed from his position as sheriff.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says the people who voted for Donald Trump are still strongly in his corner.
While it was disappointing that Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law as not fully repealed in 2015, state lawmakers now have the opportunity to finish the job for the benefit of state taxpayers.
In Wisconsin courtrooms, you’re going to need a good lawyer and a good credit score.
The court’s collapse as a functional branch of state government was confirmed last week when the five-member majority refused to abandon the practice of justices ruling on cases involving major financial backers.
As long as voucher schools are being paid for by local taxpayers and districts are forced to face the voters to keep the lights on, local voters should have the same say on voucher spending they have on public schools.
Donald Trump yesterday tossed out a skimpy, one-page outline of his ‘growth-through-tax cut plan’ that had less to do with real planning and more to do with getting a First 100 Days photo op on the record.
The White House continued its careen out of control by adding sanctuary attacks to its judicial failures – and then criticizing the appeals court that has yet to hear the case.
Mark Pocan is focused on the future. And the work he does now will do far more to shape that future than the empty promises of Koch brother corporatists like Walker and self-absorbed grifters like Trump.
ALEC ranks state high for its policies, but they haven’t improved economy.
A rightwing group called the Texas Public Policy Foundation started lobbying in Wisconsin for the first time last month.
Nothing exposed the callous disregard these Walker and Ryan have for their fellow human beings than the recent debate — and debacle — over the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
Governor Scott Walker and Republicans across the country are paving the way for more experimentation and innovation in their efforts to help people move from dependency to work.
Gov. Scott Walker, in response to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s request for states to “innovate” their Medicaid programs, has laid out a proposal that would decrease access to health care for our most vulnerable, humiliate and marginalize those with addiction, and increase government bureaucracy.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates recent Republican block grant proposals could cut Medicaid spending by as much as a third over the next decade. The cuts would start small, growing larger over the years.
State schools got $107 million in 2015, helped pay for school nurses, speech therapists.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. As the head of a manufacturing business, I’m a strong advocate for career and technical education, and post-secondary pathways that prepare
Grocers Association blocking the free market.
While those who want to overturn Citizens United complain that “money isn’t speech,” their speech is being funded by taxpayer money that pays for their ridiculous advisory referendums.
Human weakness is eternal and there are always politicians and officials looking for help with their career or political fundraising. Which is why there will always be the influence peddlers, jostling to win favors and stay in power. But very few of those lobbyists ever did it with such rascally, unpretentious joy as Bill Gerrard.
David Clarke should be removed from his position as sheriff.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says the people who voted for Donald Trump are still strongly in his corner.
While it was disappointing that Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law as not fully repealed in 2015, state lawmakers now have the opportunity to finish the job for the benefit of state taxpayers.
In Wisconsin courtrooms, you’re going to need a good lawyer and a good credit score.
The court’s collapse as a functional branch of state government was confirmed last week when the five-member majority refused to abandon the practice of justices ruling on cases involving major financial backers.
