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Now that the corporate tax rate has been reduced to 21 percent, Apple and others are bringing back some of the money they’ve stockpiled in countries that haven’t spent a dime to bolster their financial well-being, and we’re supposed to be grateful and applaud them for helping out their fellow Americans.
Our liberal-progressive-socialists acquaintances who blame police for crime now demand respect for law enforcement, that being the secretive FBI. The Bill of Rights champions who once condemned an unaccountable J. Edgar Hoover now want no accountability to the elected representatives of the citizenry.
Three Milwaukee area legislators and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce are trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
“Cockamamie” two-fold search process will destabilize department, he warns.
Whoever is chosen next to lead Milwaukee’s police force should look to New York City or Los Angeles — two cities that have very little in common except a low homicide rate — for answers on how to reduce violent crime here.
Scott Walker in his State of the State speech called for a new tax credit of $100 per child as the guv asked lawmakers to make sure checks show up before students start school this fall.
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey.
We must use the current moment of high awareness and concern about sexual misconduct as an opportunity to change our campus culture and deal as effectively as possible with the problems of sexual assault and harassment on our campus.
Rather than look outside our state for workers, let’s equip our schools with the technology they need for all subject areas. Let’s graduate more students and keep them here in Wisconsin with the knowledge and skills our businesses need.
There are a number of bills before the Legislature that will expand freedom, opportunity and liberty in the state.
As the Supreme Court primary and general elections approach, voters should demand that each candidate state whether he or she would step aside in any case where a contribution of $10,000 or more was made to the candidate’s political campaign and whether the candidate supports such a rule for all Supreme Court justices.
There’s an old saying in politics: “Don’t count your chickens until the bones are in your mouth.” Democrats who are eagerly anticipating the November elections should keep those earthy words of wisdom in mind. Overconfidence can be disastrous.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
The president’s transgressions have done more to unify our country than any policy the administration has championed.
When judges substitute their own discretion in place of strict interpretation of the law, courts invite more politics. If Burns and Dallet want to stand up to what they perceive to be Republican excesses, they have every right to do so. In fact, there’s still plenty of time for both of them to file paperwork and run for governor.
We need immigrant workers. Will the two parties find a middle ground?
Siphoning nearly $7 million into recruitment ad campaign wrong move for Wisconsin.
Politics aside, Walker’s sudden interest in addressing the health insurance affordability crisis will not undo the damage his years of sabotage have done, let alone make coverage affordable for most Wisconsinites.
Why didn’t he oppose axing Elections, Ethics heads? Perhaps because he wanted revenge.
After a Federal Bankruptcy Judge in Milwaukee ruled last week that the UW System could not be dropped as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against it by the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, the Foundation’s attorney–Paul Swanson–was quoted as saying “The Legislature should just man up and settle this thing.”
Now that the corporate tax rate has been reduced to 21 percent, Apple and others are bringing back some of the money they’ve stockpiled in countries that haven’t spent a dime to bolster their financial well-being, and we’re supposed to be grateful and applaud them for helping out their fellow Americans.
Our liberal-progressive-socialists acquaintances who blame police for crime now demand respect for law enforcement, that being the secretive FBI. The Bill of Rights champions who once condemned an unaccountable J. Edgar Hoover now want no accountability to the elected representatives of the citizenry.
Three Milwaukee area legislators and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce are trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
“Cockamamie” two-fold search process will destabilize department, he warns.
Whoever is chosen next to lead Milwaukee’s police force should look to New York City or Los Angeles — two cities that have very little in common except a low homicide rate — for answers on how to reduce violent crime here.
Scott Walker in his State of the State speech called for a new tax credit of $100 per child as the guv asked lawmakers to make sure checks show up before students start school this fall.
Federal requirements in special ed are especially burdensome, educators tell Badger Institute in survey.
We must use the current moment of high awareness and concern about sexual misconduct as an opportunity to change our campus culture and deal as effectively as possible with the problems of sexual assault and harassment on our campus.
Rather than look outside our state for workers, let’s equip our schools with the technology they need for all subject areas. Let’s graduate more students and keep them here in Wisconsin with the knowledge and skills our businesses need.
There are a number of bills before the Legislature that will expand freedom, opportunity and liberty in the state.
As the Supreme Court primary and general elections approach, voters should demand that each candidate state whether he or she would step aside in any case where a contribution of $10,000 or more was made to the candidate’s political campaign and whether the candidate supports such a rule for all Supreme Court justices.
There’s an old saying in politics: “Don’t count your chickens until the bones are in your mouth.” Democrats who are eagerly anticipating the November elections should keep those earthy words of wisdom in mind. Overconfidence can be disastrous.
If you want records in electronic form, ask for them that way. And that’s how responsible officials will provide them – with or without the intervention of the courts.
The president’s transgressions have done more to unify our country than any policy the administration has championed.
When judges substitute their own discretion in place of strict interpretation of the law, courts invite more politics. If Burns and Dallet want to stand up to what they perceive to be Republican excesses, they have every right to do so. In fact, there’s still plenty of time for both of them to file paperwork and run for governor.
We need immigrant workers. Will the two parties find a middle ground?
Siphoning nearly $7 million into recruitment ad campaign wrong move for Wisconsin.
Politics aside, Walker’s sudden interest in addressing the health insurance affordability crisis will not undo the damage his years of sabotage have done, let alone make coverage affordable for most Wisconsinites.
Why didn’t he oppose axing Elections, Ethics heads? Perhaps because he wanted revenge.
After a Federal Bankruptcy Judge in Milwaukee ruled last week that the UW System could not be dropped as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against it by the UW-Oshkosh Foundation, the Foundation’s attorney–Paul Swanson–was quoted as saying “The Legislature should just man up and settle this thing.”
