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What if instead of betting the house on a company from Taiwan with a checkered history of actually delivering on job promises, we used taxpayer dollars in a manner that will help families and businesses across the state, not just in southeastern Wisconsin?
Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new process that would alter some of the Obama era’s Title IX guidelines.
Johnson and Walker tell whoppers about the Affordable Care Act.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Scott Jensen and Chuck Chvala, start a new season. The former legislative leaders explain why the state budget is late this year despite total Republican control. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Balancing the upside of $83 billion in new economic activity against an incentive package that pays out only as Foxconn delivers on its promises is a risk well worth the reward.
Millions for Foxconn, potholes, gravel and flat tires for the rest of us.
I can’t help but yearn for a candidate who, when charged with being a Madison liberal, responds by redefining the label, instead of just running from it.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says political labels are out of control.
Communities would be restricted from regulating air and water quality and blasting at sand mines, gravel pits and quarries under a plan approved by the legislature’s GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee.
Schumer and Pelosi wanted and got swift hurricane relief when McConnell wanted it all to seem his doing on his watch. He was outplayed at the poker table.
Raise money for roads by tacking extra registration fees onto un-American vehicles; taxes paid on wages and products overseas aren’t adding to Wisconsin’s road fund, after all.
It’s not just the can that’s being kicked down the road; whole roads are being booted down the freeway.
And how this cost state taxpayers $54 million.
We want to talk about reform, not leaked report’s many errors, he says.
Adequately-funded flexible block grants to the states are the last, best hope to finally repeal and replace Obamacare, a program which is collapsing before our very eyes.
We’re about to embark on a plan that gives the largest government payoff to a private corporation in the history of state government.
Wisconn Valley is a con; it’s an anchor around the necks of taxpayers and further starves our schools, our roads and our economy for decades.
When the Joint Finance Committee voted, along party lines, to give Foxconn the right to directly appeal any lower court order straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and to have that order suspended until the high court rules on it, the legislature was entering very dubious legal waters.
Rustbelt jobs have steadily declined since 1990. State should look elsewhere for answers.
What if instead of betting the house on a company from Taiwan with a checkered history of actually delivering on job promises, we used taxpayer dollars in a manner that will help families and businesses across the state, not just in southeastern Wisconsin?
Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new process that would alter some of the Obama era’s Title IX guidelines.
Johnson and Walker tell whoppers about the Affordable Care Act.
The first step is admitting you have a problem.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Scott Jensen and Chuck Chvala, start a new season. The former legislative leaders explain why the state budget is late this year despite total Republican control. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
Balancing the upside of $83 billion in new economic activity against an incentive package that pays out only as Foxconn delivers on its promises is a risk well worth the reward.
Millions for Foxconn, potholes, gravel and flat tires for the rest of us.
I can’t help but yearn for a candidate who, when charged with being a Madison liberal, responds by redefining the label, instead of just running from it.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says political labels are out of control.
Communities would be restricted from regulating air and water quality and blasting at sand mines, gravel pits and quarries under a plan approved by the legislature’s GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee.
Schumer and Pelosi wanted and got swift hurricane relief when McConnell wanted it all to seem his doing on his watch. He was outplayed at the poker table.
Raise money for roads by tacking extra registration fees onto un-American vehicles; taxes paid on wages and products overseas aren’t adding to Wisconsin’s road fund, after all.
It’s not just the can that’s being kicked down the road; whole roads are being booted down the freeway.
And how this cost state taxpayers $54 million.
We want to talk about reform, not leaked report’s many errors, he says.
Adequately-funded flexible block grants to the states are the last, best hope to finally repeal and replace Obamacare, a program which is collapsing before our very eyes.
We’re about to embark on a plan that gives the largest government payoff to a private corporation in the history of state government.
Wisconn Valley is a con; it’s an anchor around the necks of taxpayers and further starves our schools, our roads and our economy for decades.
When the Joint Finance Committee voted, along party lines, to give Foxconn the right to directly appeal any lower court order straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and to have that order suspended until the high court rules on it, the legislature was entering very dubious legal waters.
Rustbelt jobs have steadily declined since 1990. State should look elsewhere for answers.