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It’s been quite a surprise that some legislative Republicans are actually contemplating an idea that I’ve been promoting for decades — getting the trucking industry to pay its fair share of the damage it does to the state’s roads and highways.
Conservatives have quibbled about details and process. The left’s far less measured critique amounts to ‘make peace with your god.’
The Affordable Care Act has made things more difficult for small businesses. Its onerous taxes and mandates have increased costs and reduced choices.
His draconian stance on health care was obscured by lazy media coverage.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck asks: What is fake news?
Remember when presidents behaved with a certain dignity that reflected the gravity and responsibility of their office? Not since January.
State allowing for-profit golf course to take over public land on Lake Michigan.
Given how politics have unfolded, the intensity of divisions shown in the new Marquette Law School poll results is not a surprise. But it makes the new results an important and vivid snapshot of political reality.
When former GOP Sen. Tom Reynolds was in the way, Vukmir stood up.
Past cases show Supreme Court is reluctant to overrule district courts.
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.”
It’s been quite a surprise that some legislative Republicans are actually contemplating an idea that I’ve been promoting for decades — getting the trucking industry to pay its fair share of the damage it does to the state’s roads and highways.
Conservatives have quibbled about details and process. The left’s far less measured critique amounts to ‘make peace with your god.’
The Affordable Care Act has made things more difficult for small businesses. Its onerous taxes and mandates have increased costs and reduced choices.
His draconian stance on health care was obscured by lazy media coverage.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck asks: What is fake news?
Remember when presidents behaved with a certain dignity that reflected the gravity and responsibility of their office? Not since January.
State allowing for-profit golf course to take over public land on Lake Michigan.
Given how politics have unfolded, the intensity of divisions shown in the new Marquette Law School poll results is not a surprise. But it makes the new results an important and vivid snapshot of political reality.
When former GOP Sen. Tom Reynolds was in the way, Vukmir stood up.
Past cases show Supreme Court is reluctant to overrule district courts.
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.”