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Walker is to sign the Foxconn subsidy bill in Sturtevant, where yes, there is an Amtrak station near Foxconn’s likely state-subsidized development site, but, no, there isn’t Amtrak service for potential Madison and Dane County Foxconn hirees whom Walker intentionally denied a federally-funded Amtrak connection.
The opportunity cost of not investing in transportation, the future education of our children and further incentivizing entrepreneurship is very real. Just like public school and university cuts paid for massive tax cuts the past few years, you can assume that taxpayer funding for Foxconn will come at the expense of these programs once again.
Government closest to the people, indeed. As long as its the government closest to her people.
Four consecutive victories have produced a level of unwarranted complacency among many conservatives about the state’s Supreme Court.
Many of the more credulous red-hat wearers believed in Trump’s preternatural deal-making ability, without any evidence to back it up.
It’s admirable to stand up for what you believe and to try to persuade voters that the nation would be better off with single payer, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and free college. There are reasonable arguments for all three. But all three are political losers outside the liberal base — at least right now.
The trend is really conservative boards destroying liberal universities so they can be remade into vocational schools, best achieved with hand-picked nonacademic leaders.
Rep. Tyler Vorpagel, R-Plymouth, is circulating a bill for co-sponsorship that would legalize online gambling and represents the largest expansion of gambling in Wisconsin’s history.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on concerns that Wisconsin’s image as just cheese, cows and beer is hurting the ability to attract workers.
GOP lawmakers required that vacant or underutilized Milwaukee Public Schools’ buildings must be sold only to voucher school or charter competitors, freezing for two years any city effort to develop commercial uses on nearly a dozen properties.
With the Senate budget vote in question because of three holdouts, Insiders Jensen & Chvala, former leg leaders, talk over their strategies for getting budget votes. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
President Trump and his former alt-right strategist Steve Bannon have spread a truly outlandish narrative known as the “deep state,” the notion that the public sector has undertaken a dark and orchestrated plot against the American people.
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.
Walker is to sign the Foxconn subsidy bill in Sturtevant, where yes, there is an Amtrak station near Foxconn’s likely state-subsidized development site, but, no, there isn’t Amtrak service for potential Madison and Dane County Foxconn hirees whom Walker intentionally denied a federally-funded Amtrak connection.
The opportunity cost of not investing in transportation, the future education of our children and further incentivizing entrepreneurship is very real. Just like public school and university cuts paid for massive tax cuts the past few years, you can assume that taxpayer funding for Foxconn will come at the expense of these programs once again.
Government closest to the people, indeed. As long as its the government closest to her people.
Four consecutive victories have produced a level of unwarranted complacency among many conservatives about the state’s Supreme Court.
Many of the more credulous red-hat wearers believed in Trump’s preternatural deal-making ability, without any evidence to back it up.
It’s admirable to stand up for what you believe and to try to persuade voters that the nation would be better off with single payer, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and free college. There are reasonable arguments for all three. But all three are political losers outside the liberal base — at least right now.
The trend is really conservative boards destroying liberal universities so they can be remade into vocational schools, best achieved with hand-picked nonacademic leaders.
Rep. Tyler Vorpagel, R-Plymouth, is circulating a bill for co-sponsorship that would legalize online gambling and represents the largest expansion of gambling in Wisconsin’s history.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on concerns that Wisconsin’s image as just cheese, cows and beer is hurting the ability to attract workers.
GOP lawmakers required that vacant or underutilized Milwaukee Public Schools’ buildings must be sold only to voucher school or charter competitors, freezing for two years any city effort to develop commercial uses on nearly a dozen properties.
With the Senate budget vote in question because of three holdouts, Insiders Jensen & Chvala, former leg leaders, talk over their strategies for getting budget votes. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
President Trump and his former alt-right strategist Steve Bannon have spread a truly outlandish narrative known as the “deep state,” the notion that the public sector has undertaken a dark and orchestrated plot against the American people.
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.
