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It promises to be an incredible, thought-provoking weekend, aimed at creating discussion about what our city and state are looking at over the coming years. And it will include divergent views from Republicans and independents as well as progressives and liberals.
We believe that good policy requires input from all sides, and continuing open discussions. Bipartisanship isn’t dead, and if we embrace it with clear eyes and full hearts, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.
Meeting with Trump and others, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on Sept. 13 worked out a “deal to make a deal as soon as possible”—which seems the proper description—on enshrining the roots of DACA and agreeing on border security issues—outside the wall, the Democrats said. On that “outside” phrase, the White House tweeted disagreement.
Northern Wisconsin can have a clean environment and economic prosperity. We can continue to be a vibrant tourism destination while allowing industry to flourish.
While we welcome new business, we cannot afford to weaken our environmental laws in Wisconsin for the benefit of sulfide mining. Doing so tarnishes the integrity of our laws and puts our water and people at significant risk.
As Walker buries the state under $3 billion in guarantee-free gifts to Foxconn, let’s bury his phony fiscal conservatism and falsely-claimed aversion to picking government-financed winners and losers.
The state should wipe clean the list of occupational licenses and build the list from the ground up, making sure each makes sense in context with all the others.
Crony capitalist-dominated Republicans control most state governments, and since the 2016 election, the federal government as well.
The narrow-mindedness of such a policy completely ignores the harmful effect that tailpipe exhaust from gasoline and diesel vehicles has on our citizens. The cost includes illness, death and financial losses that will be far larger than the higher revenue the Legislature hopes to bring in.
Bribing companies to relocate here doesn’t work. So what does?
They like Nicholson and Vukmir for U.S. Senate. What more do you need you know?
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential race. Clinton’s book “What Happened” was released Tuesday.
Once again, we’re headed to “reform” that benefits the 1 percent among us and forgets the rest.
As a blue star mom, I know someday my son who serves as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army will become a veteran.
Neighboring states saw even bigger drops under Obamacare since 2013.
State legislators are considering a new package of bills that dramatically would increase both the number of youths sentenced to prison and the length of time they spend at Lincoln Hills or Copper Lake, reversing years of work to reform the youth justice system for the better.
This reform will help us achieve universal coverage for everyone and is one of many paths we can take to expand coverage and lower health care costs.
What comes next for progressives has already started with this reminder of the power of the people. The resistance is working. The key next step is bringing this show of force into the voting booth.
Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly will soon face a moment of reckoning: do they reject violence as political discourse from anyone who perpetrates it?
Hurricane Harvey tested three basic tenets of right-wing, Republican ideology: Regulations are bad, we don’t have to worry about climate change, and the government is the problem. Right-wing beliefs failed massively on all three counts.
It promises to be an incredible, thought-provoking weekend, aimed at creating discussion about what our city and state are looking at over the coming years. And it will include divergent views from Republicans and independents as well as progressives and liberals.
We believe that good policy requires input from all sides, and continuing open discussions. Bipartisanship isn’t dead, and if we embrace it with clear eyes and full hearts, there’s no limit to what we can achieve.
Meeting with Trump and others, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi on Sept. 13 worked out a “deal to make a deal as soon as possible”—which seems the proper description—on enshrining the roots of DACA and agreeing on border security issues—outside the wall, the Democrats said. On that “outside” phrase, the White House tweeted disagreement.
Northern Wisconsin can have a clean environment and economic prosperity. We can continue to be a vibrant tourism destination while allowing industry to flourish.
While we welcome new business, we cannot afford to weaken our environmental laws in Wisconsin for the benefit of sulfide mining. Doing so tarnishes the integrity of our laws and puts our water and people at significant risk.
As Walker buries the state under $3 billion in guarantee-free gifts to Foxconn, let’s bury his phony fiscal conservatism and falsely-claimed aversion to picking government-financed winners and losers.
The state should wipe clean the list of occupational licenses and build the list from the ground up, making sure each makes sense in context with all the others.
Crony capitalist-dominated Republicans control most state governments, and since the 2016 election, the federal government as well.
The narrow-mindedness of such a policy completely ignores the harmful effect that tailpipe exhaust from gasoline and diesel vehicles has on our citizens. The cost includes illness, death and financial losses that will be far larger than the higher revenue the Legislature hopes to bring in.
Bribing companies to relocate here doesn’t work. So what does?
They like Nicholson and Vukmir for U.S. Senate. What more do you need you know?
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on why Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential race. Clinton’s book “What Happened” was released Tuesday.
Once again, we’re headed to “reform” that benefits the 1 percent among us and forgets the rest.
As a blue star mom, I know someday my son who serves as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army will become a veteran.
Neighboring states saw even bigger drops under Obamacare since 2013.
State legislators are considering a new package of bills that dramatically would increase both the number of youths sentenced to prison and the length of time they spend at Lincoln Hills or Copper Lake, reversing years of work to reform the youth justice system for the better.
This reform will help us achieve universal coverage for everyone and is one of many paths we can take to expand coverage and lower health care costs.
What comes next for progressives has already started with this reminder of the power of the people. The resistance is working. The key next step is bringing this show of force into the voting booth.
Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly will soon face a moment of reckoning: do they reject violence as political discourse from anyone who perpetrates it?
Hurricane Harvey tested three basic tenets of right-wing, Republican ideology: Regulations are bad, we don’t have to worry about climate change, and the government is the problem. Right-wing beliefs failed massively on all three counts.
