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When it comes to Wisconsin’s transportation finance crisis, the real “public trust” that needs rebuilding involves the governor and the legislators who have let Mark Gottlieb twist in the wind. He left the Transportation Department in better shape than when he took it over.
The roads are a mess, there’s not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets are awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations.
Under one version of legislation calling for a constitutional convention on a balanced budget, Republican leaders would get to pick all seven delegates.
Can one speech change the national mood? Perhaps not. But if any speech can, Donald J. Trump delivered it Tuesday night.
The most penetrating moment in Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night was not his, except for the crass setup.
The temptation for Trump to wrap himself in the valor of a recently deceased soldier was too much to resist.
Cyber-attacks are rampant in industry as well as within government institutions, yet there are relatively few people trained for cybersecurity careers.
In non-public meeting they approve 31% raise in their per day expenses.
I believe higher education should be affordable, and I say this as someone who chose to attend a two year college before attending a four year institution. However, by marching toward a policy of free tuition we are actually moving away from students placing their own equity in their education.
For more than two centuries, governments in this country have paid newspapers to publish public notices about the actions of government. But now, Wisconsin state legislators are circulating a pair of bills, AB70 and SB42, that aim to take public notices out of newspapers and put them instead on government websites.
As a local and state government official, I want the public to have as much information as possible. It doesn’t matter if they gather their information from a government website or if they read it in the public notice section of the local newspaper. In many areas of the state, newspapers are the lifeblood of a community and sometimes the only convenient source of information.
Wisconsin state budget bills are usually 1,000 or more pages in length and contain many small items that receive little or no attention. That is not to say, however, that serious questions cannot arise from the minutiae.
Trump’s protectionist trade policies will hurt state far more than others.
Evers and Holtz square off in superintendent’s race; sparks fly both ways.
In 38 counties only 5% of local roads are rated “good.”
“I won by 146,000 votes,” he boasted to the New York Times. “I represent the majority. Now, they’re a vocal minority,” referring to the crowds at the town hall meetings. And of course Republican stalwarts like Jim Sensenbrenner couldn’t possibly think that those constituents are worth representing.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says President Donald Trump behaved in his Tuesday speech to Congress.
Move over Ulysses Grant and the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Step aside Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome imbroglio. In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has you both beat when it comes to presidential financial impropriety.
On Nov. 6, 2018 we will elect a new Congress (all the House members and 33 senators will be up for election.) Is it time to throw the bums out, keep the few good ones and start turning America into a Nation of peace builders and turn our backs on war mongering?
Incumbent state superintendent and challenger have fierce disagreements.
When it comes to Wisconsin’s transportation finance crisis, the real “public trust” that needs rebuilding involves the governor and the legislators who have let Mark Gottlieb twist in the wind. He left the Transportation Department in better shape than when he took it over.
The roads are a mess, there’s not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets are awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations.
Under one version of legislation calling for a constitutional convention on a balanced budget, Republican leaders would get to pick all seven delegates.
Can one speech change the national mood? Perhaps not. But if any speech can, Donald J. Trump delivered it Tuesday night.
The most penetrating moment in Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night was not his, except for the crass setup.
The temptation for Trump to wrap himself in the valor of a recently deceased soldier was too much to resist.
Cyber-attacks are rampant in industry as well as within government institutions, yet there are relatively few people trained for cybersecurity careers.
In non-public meeting they approve 31% raise in their per day expenses.
I believe higher education should be affordable, and I say this as someone who chose to attend a two year college before attending a four year institution. However, by marching toward a policy of free tuition we are actually moving away from students placing their own equity in their education.
For more than two centuries, governments in this country have paid newspapers to publish public notices about the actions of government. But now, Wisconsin state legislators are circulating a pair of bills, AB70 and SB42, that aim to take public notices out of newspapers and put them instead on government websites.
As a local and state government official, I want the public to have as much information as possible. It doesn’t matter if they gather their information from a government website or if they read it in the public notice section of the local newspaper. In many areas of the state, newspapers are the lifeblood of a community and sometimes the only convenient source of information.
Wisconsin state budget bills are usually 1,000 or more pages in length and contain many small items that receive little or no attention. That is not to say, however, that serious questions cannot arise from the minutiae.
Trump’s protectionist trade policies will hurt state far more than others.
Evers and Holtz square off in superintendent’s race; sparks fly both ways.
In 38 counties only 5% of local roads are rated “good.”
“I won by 146,000 votes,” he boasted to the New York Times. “I represent the majority. Now, they’re a vocal minority,” referring to the crowds at the town hall meetings. And of course Republican stalwarts like Jim Sensenbrenner couldn’t possibly think that those constituents are worth representing.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck says President Donald Trump behaved in his Tuesday speech to Congress.
Move over Ulysses Grant and the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Step aside Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome imbroglio. In just a few weeks, Donald Trump has you both beat when it comes to presidential financial impropriety.
On Nov. 6, 2018 we will elect a new Congress (all the House members and 33 senators will be up for election.) Is it time to throw the bums out, keep the few good ones and start turning America into a Nation of peace builders and turn our backs on war mongering?
Incumbent state superintendent and challenger have fierce disagreements.
