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They’re at it again. Despite overwhelming support for an open Internet, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to undo net neutrality in the United States. And the big winner will be the giant telecommunications companies — and pretty much no one else.
Evers using Walker’s requirement the Department of Public Instruction use state DOJ lawyers in lawsuit related to REINS Act to raise funds for gubernatorial campaign.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on President Donald Trump’s derision of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
Rep. Joel Kleefisch, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, is an ebullient presence at the Capitol, eager to share his hunting stories to anyone in earshot and show off his trophy-filled office, which includes a bearskin, an alligator and a turkey, among others. He said he’s taken “well more than 30” new hunters out for their first time. On Monday, I became one of them.
Hunting is not just killing and it’s not just about the individual hunter. We have obligations to the prey, to fellow hunters and to society in general. And those are lessons that are getting lost in the story of the kindergarten deer hunter.
Do you support lowering Wisconsin’s drinking age to 19 if the state would not lose federal highway funds?
First, the newspaper revenue model, especially the once-robust classified advertising business, would be considerably heathier. … Part two of my answer is that, internet or not, the newspaper business would still be much changed from the old days because much of society has split into ideological tribes affecting their media choices.
The voters didn’t count in 2016. They are not going to count in 2018. If they are ever going to count again, the system has to be rebuilt in ways that makes ideas and participation more important and slogans and insults less so.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will give us a tax code that’s simple, fair and easy to understand.
The tax cuts are a bust for regular folks, including most Wisconsinites.
Just as he did with his closely-held Act 10 cards, Walker hid his damaging environmental intentions when he ran for Governor in 2010 – – but in a classic example of political deflection and false projection accused Democratic opponent, Tom Barrett, of harboring a secret environmental agenda.
Opportunities to dramatically rewrite the tax code don’t come around very often. Sen. Baldwin and the rest of our congressional delegation need to deliver on their past promises and stand up to corporate cronies and the hundreds of thousands of special-interest groups benefiting from our broken tax system.
When full-time staffers and part-time board members who set agency policy (including former Republican Rep. Dean Knudson) plead for three more employees, the Legislature and governor should do more than just listen.
Perhaps not, but legislative districts straddling its border are changing.
The fact that now it is politically risky to put forth an honest approach making it clear streets and roads must have more funding so they can be serviced adequately, underscores how far from a functional governing style we have fallen.
The state mandated report cards are a game changer for school choice. When differences between schools are controlled for, private schools in the choice programs and public charter schools show significant student growth.
RUSD drops off the failing district list, MPS receives the lowest district score in the state, choice programs are finally rated, and charter schools excel.
Recently, however, there’s been an alarming trend to make it more difficult for people to get access to their own government.
No one begrudges a politician with strongly-held beliefs but when threatening to scuttle tax reform in the name of your pet cause becomes a predictable part of your oeuvre, it may be time to soften your tactics.
Maybe it’s time we review all of the “adult things” we’ve attached ages to, and make them more consistent all along the line.
They’re at it again. Despite overwhelming support for an open Internet, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai wants to undo net neutrality in the United States. And the big winner will be the giant telecommunications companies — and pretty much no one else.
Evers using Walker’s requirement the Department of Public Instruction use state DOJ lawyers in lawsuit related to REINS Act to raise funds for gubernatorial campaign.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on President Donald Trump’s derision of Sen. Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.”
Rep. Joel Kleefisch, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, is an ebullient presence at the Capitol, eager to share his hunting stories to anyone in earshot and show off his trophy-filled office, which includes a bearskin, an alligator and a turkey, among others. He said he’s taken “well more than 30” new hunters out for their first time. On Monday, I became one of them.
Hunting is not just killing and it’s not just about the individual hunter. We have obligations to the prey, to fellow hunters and to society in general. And those are lessons that are getting lost in the story of the kindergarten deer hunter.
Do you support lowering Wisconsin’s drinking age to 19 if the state would not lose federal highway funds?
First, the newspaper revenue model, especially the once-robust classified advertising business, would be considerably heathier. … Part two of my answer is that, internet or not, the newspaper business would still be much changed from the old days because much of society has split into ideological tribes affecting their media choices.
The voters didn’t count in 2016. They are not going to count in 2018. If they are ever going to count again, the system has to be rebuilt in ways that makes ideas and participation more important and slogans and insults less so.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will give us a tax code that’s simple, fair and easy to understand.
The tax cuts are a bust for regular folks, including most Wisconsinites.
Just as he did with his closely-held Act 10 cards, Walker hid his damaging environmental intentions when he ran for Governor in 2010 – – but in a classic example of political deflection and false projection accused Democratic opponent, Tom Barrett, of harboring a secret environmental agenda.
Opportunities to dramatically rewrite the tax code don’t come around very often. Sen. Baldwin and the rest of our congressional delegation need to deliver on their past promises and stand up to corporate cronies and the hundreds of thousands of special-interest groups benefiting from our broken tax system.
When full-time staffers and part-time board members who set agency policy (including former Republican Rep. Dean Knudson) plead for three more employees, the Legislature and governor should do more than just listen.
Perhaps not, but legislative districts straddling its border are changing.
The fact that now it is politically risky to put forth an honest approach making it clear streets and roads must have more funding so they can be serviced adequately, underscores how far from a functional governing style we have fallen.
The state mandated report cards are a game changer for school choice. When differences between schools are controlled for, private schools in the choice programs and public charter schools show significant student growth.
RUSD drops off the failing district list, MPS receives the lowest district score in the state, choice programs are finally rated, and charter schools excel.
Recently, however, there’s been an alarming trend to make it more difficult for people to get access to their own government.
No one begrudges a politician with strongly-held beliefs but when threatening to scuttle tax reform in the name of your pet cause becomes a predictable part of your oeuvre, it may be time to soften your tactics.
Maybe it’s time we review all of the “adult things” we’ve attached ages to, and make them more consistent all along the line.