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As policymakers hammer out a historic deal for Wisconsin’s economy that will require unprecedented taxpayer funds to secure Foxconn’s proposed $10 billion dollar facility, they should reject the same-old, tired business model that exploits workers and disregards environmental standards.
Before the euphoria over this unfinished deal overtakes us, there are some factors we should consider.
Using our economic development dollars to support employee ownership has the potential to create and preserve millions of good jobs.
Alleged study asserts but never begins to prove $2 billion in waste.
The more delays, the higher the cost and the more annoyances.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after President Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree.
Packaging state resources into a powerful program to create jobs over a wide array of communities is the smartest thing to have emerged from our statehouse in a very long time. And my party needs to get on board this plan and provide hearty support.
So far the most effective Democratic strategy appears to be, as the kids say, “ghosting” — hiding under your Capitol Hill desk and waiting for all the announcements to blow over. Then, whether the deal works or doesn’t, you can take credit either way.
Walker’s proven conservation hostility is again on full display through the bill he crafted secretly to exempt the Foxconn development from an what should be a routine Environmental Impact Statement review, thus eliminating in advance the best method to catalogue and protect wetlands and connected resources the project would harm.
I’d like to see the Foxconn deal pitched like Chantix, Lyrica and Viagra, with all the disclaimers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on an idea floated to let governors run health care in their own states.
We’re just about to observe the 72nd anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb on Japan. And the truth is that the world today is too dangerous a place for nuclear weapons.
Are we watching the rule of law, essential to American democracy, being slow-cooked to death?
As befits a year in which anything, it seems, can happen, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s public records docket this term was marked by atypical cases.
Urban Agriculture has the ability to propel Milwaukee forward.
If we’re going to spend $3 billion, should it be to subsidize the expansion of one company from Taiwan, or should we spend it to empower the more than 5 million people who call Wisconsin home?
It is almost impossible to overstate how important the recently announced Foxconn deal is for Wisconsin. Economically, culturally, and politically, it is the biggest deal for Wisconsin in a generation.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on backlash against the deal for a Foxconn manufacturing operation in southeast Wisconsin.
Mitch Henck’s argument is that this deal is all about jobs, jobs and jobs, and that we should be grateful for the plans that Gov. Scott Walker has laid out for us to get those jobs. But there has to be a measured approach to the impact that the Foxconn deal will have for whatever area they locate to, as well as the rest of the state.
Or more accurately, “The trouble with the Republican response to the Foxconn proposal.”
As policymakers hammer out a historic deal for Wisconsin’s economy that will require unprecedented taxpayer funds to secure Foxconn’s proposed $10 billion dollar facility, they should reject the same-old, tired business model that exploits workers and disregards environmental standards.
Before the euphoria over this unfinished deal overtakes us, there are some factors we should consider.
Using our economic development dollars to support employee ownership has the potential to create and preserve millions of good jobs.
Alleged study asserts but never begins to prove $2 billion in waste.
The more delays, the higher the cost and the more annoyances.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after President Donald Trump’s recent speech to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree.
Packaging state resources into a powerful program to create jobs over a wide array of communities is the smartest thing to have emerged from our statehouse in a very long time. And my party needs to get on board this plan and provide hearty support.
So far the most effective Democratic strategy appears to be, as the kids say, “ghosting” — hiding under your Capitol Hill desk and waiting for all the announcements to blow over. Then, whether the deal works or doesn’t, you can take credit either way.
Walker’s proven conservation hostility is again on full display through the bill he crafted secretly to exempt the Foxconn development from an what should be a routine Environmental Impact Statement review, thus eliminating in advance the best method to catalogue and protect wetlands and connected resources the project would harm.
I’d like to see the Foxconn deal pitched like Chantix, Lyrica and Viagra, with all the disclaimers.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on an idea floated to let governors run health care in their own states.
We’re just about to observe the 72nd anniversary of the use of the first atomic bomb on Japan. And the truth is that the world today is too dangerous a place for nuclear weapons.
Are we watching the rule of law, essential to American democracy, being slow-cooked to death?
As befits a year in which anything, it seems, can happen, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s public records docket this term was marked by atypical cases.
Urban Agriculture has the ability to propel Milwaukee forward.
If we’re going to spend $3 billion, should it be to subsidize the expansion of one company from Taiwan, or should we spend it to empower the more than 5 million people who call Wisconsin home?
It is almost impossible to overstate how important the recently announced Foxconn deal is for Wisconsin. Economically, culturally, and politically, it is the biggest deal for Wisconsin in a generation.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on backlash against the deal for a Foxconn manufacturing operation in southeast Wisconsin.
Mitch Henck’s argument is that this deal is all about jobs, jobs and jobs, and that we should be grateful for the plans that Gov. Scott Walker has laid out for us to get those jobs. But there has to be a measured approach to the impact that the Foxconn deal will have for whatever area they locate to, as well as the rest of the state.
Or more accurately, “The trouble with the Republican response to the Foxconn proposal.”
