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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.
What everyone seems to forget is that the reason Houston, New Orleans and Miami are in line for such devastation from coastal storms is a direct result of man’s previous efforts to control nature.
The size of the financial package the governor offered to lure Foxconn is quite simply staggering and, if enacted, will be the biggest taxpayer boondoggle in Wisconsin’s history.
All were supposed to solve transportation budget impasse. None did.
Assuming that it passes largely as currently written, which is expected, this budget is the muffled whimper that marks the end of Wisconsin’s conservative reformation.
Or how to run for U.S. Senate in the land of scorched-earth politics.
The past five years have seen an unprecedented makeover in longstanding principles of state-level administrative law. These changes shift power away from agencies and toward courts, the legislature, and the governor.
The Menominee River on the Wisconsin-Michigan border has landed on a list of the 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the US because a Canadian firm is close to winning final approval to dig an open pit mine near the water’s edge which could release acid mine drainage downstream.
A conversation with author Thomas Frank, who will appear at Fighting Bob Fest Friday.
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.
What everyone seems to forget is that the reason Houston, New Orleans and Miami are in line for such devastation from coastal storms is a direct result of man’s previous efforts to control nature.
The size of the financial package the governor offered to lure Foxconn is quite simply staggering and, if enacted, will be the biggest taxpayer boondoggle in Wisconsin’s history.
All were supposed to solve transportation budget impasse. None did.
Assuming that it passes largely as currently written, which is expected, this budget is the muffled whimper that marks the end of Wisconsin’s conservative reformation.
Or how to run for U.S. Senate in the land of scorched-earth politics.
The past five years have seen an unprecedented makeover in longstanding principles of state-level administrative law. These changes shift power away from agencies and toward courts, the legislature, and the governor.
The Menominee River on the Wisconsin-Michigan border has landed on a list of the 10 Most Endangered Rivers in the US because a Canadian firm is close to winning final approval to dig an open pit mine near the water’s edge which could release acid mine drainage downstream.
A conversation with author Thomas Frank, who will appear at Fighting Bob Fest Friday.
