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In 2018, the Wisconsin prison population will be as high as it has ever been. This overcrowding is a serious safety concern not only for our front-line correctional officers and sergeants but also for inmates and our support staff of teachers, maintenance, administrators, etc.
I can’t tell you how many emails and anonymous phone messages I regularly receive from people who have been duped into believing the absolute lies that get passed around the internet these days.
“Net neutrality” is one of those buzzwords that inspires populist support, but it’s not as simple as the big guys conspiring to shove mom-and-pop websites into the internet’s slow lane. Behind the scenes, it’s also about a small handful of heavy users – the internet’s so-called “lane hogs” – hoping to avoid paying for the right to dominate available capacity.
An astute social commentator who wrote with an eye toward exposing the cruel and unusual men of his times, Dickens would update his protagonist: make him younger and more conniving, put him in a crisp suit, give him better hair, perhaps make him speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
It is increasingly likely that the total price tag from all players in the 2018 governor’s race will be more than $100 million.
It is gratifying to see that a significant number of local school boards across the state have decided to add personal finance to their graduation requirements in the past seven years.
The Senate election in Alabama, imminent final passage of tax giveaways by the GOP-led Congress, Trump’s continued sabotage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and threatened cuts to Medicare, Social Security and other domestic spending signal the moral bankruptcy of the GOP. Honorable and principled conservatives need to consider a new conservative party.
Already finding $30 million for Foxconn roadwork, and draining $134 million from Wisconsin transportation needs statewide for Foxconn, GOP Gov. and principle-free hypocrite Scott Walker wants a huge gob ($246 million) of a limited pool of federal funds to pay for Foxconn-related highway expansion which Wisconsin cannot afford on its own.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, review the best and worst stories of 2017. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The word “decency” came to mind after Alabama’s U.S. Senate race this week, when a decent and moderate Democrat named Doug Jones stunned Roy Moore, the loutish and eccentric abuser of laws and allegedly teenage girls.
Reports that he’s looking to the exits actually make sense.
It wasn’t long ago that Wisconsin wielded oversized influence in national politics. At the beginning of the decade, the Washington Post reported that the state “could shape the direction of the GOP.”
The news of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s impending retirement is, at the very least, premature.
Tax benefits for the rich, coal for the rest of us.
It’s the children who have the most to worry about from a Trump regime. Not just the children in actual age but the budding offspring of business entrepreneurship.
5 Reasons Schimel’s John Doe leak report is such a partisan hack job.
Steady monthly losses since state overrode city residency law in effect since 1938.
His sloppy report on John Doe leaks won’t help Attorney General’s reputation.
Funding regulations hamper districts and don’t improve education, local officials say in survey.
In the spirit of the holidays, state leaders gave the Wisconsin lottery a $48 million gift in the 2017-19 state budget. The gift will help keep down homeowners’ property tax bills this year and next. But it may come with several lumps of coal. One is the unusual use of state income and sales taxes to subsidize lottery expenses, and the other may be an end-run around the state constitution.
In 2018, the Wisconsin prison population will be as high as it has ever been. This overcrowding is a serious safety concern not only for our front-line correctional officers and sergeants but also for inmates and our support staff of teachers, maintenance, administrators, etc.
I can’t tell you how many emails and anonymous phone messages I regularly receive from people who have been duped into believing the absolute lies that get passed around the internet these days.
“Net neutrality” is one of those buzzwords that inspires populist support, but it’s not as simple as the big guys conspiring to shove mom-and-pop websites into the internet’s slow lane. Behind the scenes, it’s also about a small handful of heavy users – the internet’s so-called “lane hogs” – hoping to avoid paying for the right to dominate available capacity.
An astute social commentator who wrote with an eye toward exposing the cruel and unusual men of his times, Dickens would update his protagonist: make him younger and more conniving, put him in a crisp suit, give him better hair, perhaps make him speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
It is increasingly likely that the total price tag from all players in the 2018 governor’s race will be more than $100 million.
It is gratifying to see that a significant number of local school boards across the state have decided to add personal finance to their graduation requirements in the past seven years.
The Senate election in Alabama, imminent final passage of tax giveaways by the GOP-led Congress, Trump’s continued sabotage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and threatened cuts to Medicare, Social Security and other domestic spending signal the moral bankruptcy of the GOP. Honorable and principled conservatives need to consider a new conservative party.
Already finding $30 million for Foxconn roadwork, and draining $134 million from Wisconsin transportation needs statewide for Foxconn, GOP Gov. and principle-free hypocrite Scott Walker wants a huge gob ($246 million) of a limited pool of federal funds to pay for Foxconn-related highway expansion which Wisconsin cannot afford on its own.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala & Jensen, review the best and worst stories of 2017. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
The word “decency” came to mind after Alabama’s U.S. Senate race this week, when a decent and moderate Democrat named Doug Jones stunned Roy Moore, the loutish and eccentric abuser of laws and allegedly teenage girls.
Reports that he’s looking to the exits actually make sense.
It wasn’t long ago that Wisconsin wielded oversized influence in national politics. At the beginning of the decade, the Washington Post reported that the state “could shape the direction of the GOP.”
The news of House Speaker Paul Ryan’s impending retirement is, at the very least, premature.
Tax benefits for the rich, coal for the rest of us.
It’s the children who have the most to worry about from a Trump regime. Not just the children in actual age but the budding offspring of business entrepreneurship.
5 Reasons Schimel’s John Doe leak report is such a partisan hack job.
Steady monthly losses since state overrode city residency law in effect since 1938.
His sloppy report on John Doe leaks won’t help Attorney General’s reputation.
Funding regulations hamper districts and don’t improve education, local officials say in survey.
In the spirit of the holidays, state leaders gave the Wisconsin lottery a $48 million gift in the 2017-19 state budget. The gift will help keep down homeowners’ property tax bills this year and next. But it may come with several lumps of coal. One is the unusual use of state income and sales taxes to subsidize lottery expenses, and the other may be an end-run around the state constitution.
