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Last week, Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a comprehensive plan which makes substantial investments that closely align the state of Wisconsin with current best practices in juvenile corrections.
Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
Do you believe it is appropriate for state Supreme Court candidates to openly discuss their personal political views?
Nearly everyone agrees system needs reform, but can’t agree how to do it.
It’s 26 acres. It’s 50% larger than a wetlands fill for a sand mine to the northwest that was described in 2017 as the biggest such Wisconsin wetland loss in ten years.
Other state subsidies will have far greater jobs created per tax dollar spent.
Given the decision-makers who will do the hiring and the conditions under which the next police chief will have to work, crime in Milwaukee could get much worse.
Serious incidents of hate and bias at UW-Madison are diluted by frivolous and petty tattling – like bad manners at the gym, rude roommates, and a complaint about a homeless man hiding behind ‘white privilege.’
Buried deep in “Fire and Fury,” author Michael Wolff’s blockbuster book on the Trump White House, is a rather lengthy examination of the Trump-Ryan relationship that is damning for both the speaker and the president.
Todd Berry, the retiring president of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, hopefully opened a few eyes with a farewell column he sent the state media last week.
If voters are supposed to be troubled that Soglin engaged in a diplomatic nicety long ago, won’t they be just as troubled that Walker has appeared on Chinese television sporting the contemporary symbol of a country Human Rights Watch describes as “a one-party authoritarian state that systemically curbs fundamental rights”?
As compelling as it may seem to link Soglin giving the key to the city to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1975 to improving communications and fostering better international relations in Cuba, let it not be forgotten that allowing a dictator to have the type of positive inroads with such propaganda was not warranted considering the despicable way he ruled.
Parallels between Trump and Nixon on nuclear war and cover-ups.
Trump was right about Jerusalem despite the nervous nellies.
Common sense and reason must prevail in the marijuana debate. And opening the door to allow the federal government to prosecute more citizens in states where marijuana has been legalized by overwhelming majorities of the people makes no sense.
Last week, Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a comprehensive plan which makes substantial investments that closely align the state of Wisconsin with current best practices in juvenile corrections.
Whatever his real motivations are for proposing to close Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in his fiscal year 2019 budget, Gov. Scott Walker has finally come around to the obvious conclusion that Wisconsin’s notoriously dangerous youth prisons — which lawsuits and federal investigations have repeatedly identified as abusive and obsolete — need to close.
Aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump’s supposed “accomplishments” is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
Apparently the way to get Trump to behave more presidential is to accuse him of being unhinged.
John Mielke, the president of Associated Builders and Contractors in Wisconsin, joins RightWisconsin Editor James Wigderson to discuss a bill waiting on action by the state Senate that would allow companies to have a one-to-one ratio of apprentices to journeymen in the skilled trades, a bill that will help (but not fix) the skills gap.
What’s needed is a new trade agreement that ends NAFTA’s corporate outsourcing incentives and that adds strong labor and environmental standards with swift and certain enforcement.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on whether Wisconsin should join the trend and legalize marijuana.
Do you believe it is appropriate for state Supreme Court candidates to openly discuss their personal political views?
Nearly everyone agrees system needs reform, but can’t agree how to do it.
It’s 26 acres. It’s 50% larger than a wetlands fill for a sand mine to the northwest that was described in 2017 as the biggest such Wisconsin wetland loss in ten years.
Other state subsidies will have far greater jobs created per tax dollar spent.
Given the decision-makers who will do the hiring and the conditions under which the next police chief will have to work, crime in Milwaukee could get much worse.
Serious incidents of hate and bias at UW-Madison are diluted by frivolous and petty tattling – like bad manners at the gym, rude roommates, and a complaint about a homeless man hiding behind ‘white privilege.’
Buried deep in “Fire and Fury,” author Michael Wolff’s blockbuster book on the Trump White House, is a rather lengthy examination of the Trump-Ryan relationship that is damning for both the speaker and the president.
Todd Berry, the retiring president of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, hopefully opened a few eyes with a farewell column he sent the state media last week.
If voters are supposed to be troubled that Soglin engaged in a diplomatic nicety long ago, won’t they be just as troubled that Walker has appeared on Chinese television sporting the contemporary symbol of a country Human Rights Watch describes as “a one-party authoritarian state that systemically curbs fundamental rights”?
As compelling as it may seem to link Soglin giving the key to the city to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1975 to improving communications and fostering better international relations in Cuba, let it not be forgotten that allowing a dictator to have the type of positive inroads with such propaganda was not warranted considering the despicable way he ruled.
Parallels between Trump and Nixon on nuclear war and cover-ups.
Trump was right about Jerusalem despite the nervous nellies.
Common sense and reason must prevail in the marijuana debate. And opening the door to allow the federal government to prosecute more citizens in states where marijuana has been legalized by overwhelming majorities of the people makes no sense.
