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There will still be skeptics, but lawmakers on hand Thursday heard how Wisconsin assembled a team approach to bring the Foxconn opportunity to this point. It’s a team that appears poised to finish the job.
The Foxconn deal is “transformational.” It’s a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” And if you don’t like it, you can “go suck lemons,” the governor says. I’ll pass on the lemons. But I would like an independent analysis to chew on.
While the media were preoccupied with the fate of the Affordable Care Act, important news about Social Security, Medicare, and an impending federal debt crisis went unreported.
School choice backers donated generously to Walker, but he’s vacillated on the issue.
New York Times leaves out some of the story. Where’s that liberal media bias?
Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo warns the more people on BadgerCare, the fewer providers will accept it because reimbursement rates from the government are so low. That means decreased access to health care for the state’s most vulnerable populations.
Gallagher and 42 other Democratic and GOP representatives have released “a bipartisan fix for health care” that would restrain Trump’s effort to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Let’s bring jobs to Wisconsin, but let’s make sure the final deal is a good one for all of Wisconsin.
It feels like we’re putting down an enormous, risky bet without a statewide economic plan for growth in place, which just doesn’t feel like the Wisconsin way.
The Foxconn deal merely epitomizes more of the same: tax breaks and handouts for corporate cronies and the wealthy. Meanwhile, the financial burden of these incentives continues to be shouldered squarely on the backs of working-class and poor families.
Each job created could cost the state anywhere from $17,273 to $54,159 per year.
Baldwin is upset that a judicial nomination by President Trump did not receive the super-majority support of a bipartisan judicial commission set up by her and Johnson. However, Baldwin is ignoring her own history when she bypassed the process and sent eight names to President Obama.
A recently published paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking reveals that the big drug companies have spent more on share buybacks and dividends during the last 10 years than they did on research and development.
The voucher sector in Milwaukee is growing stronger and better. Quality overall is improving. Many of the private schools are doing more to get their act together.
Day after day, I watch in horror as President Trump and his toadies plumb depths so low that one loses any capacity for shock.
Republican operatives are emulating Trump’s coarseness — none more so than right here in Wisconsin.
Much has been written about state incentives to bring high-tech manufacturer FoxConn to Wisconsin. Little has been written about proposed local incentives. The local commitment will likely be significant, so what follows are a few questions that local officials may want to consider.
We’re already on the technological stage. Now the Foxconn announcement has given us an international spotlight. It’s up to all of us to make the most of what could be a transformational opportunity for a city and region I’m proud to call home.
The $3 billion deal hatched for a new Wisconsin factory simply stinks.
There will still be skeptics, but lawmakers on hand Thursday heard how Wisconsin assembled a team approach to bring the Foxconn opportunity to this point. It’s a team that appears poised to finish the job.
The Foxconn deal is “transformational.” It’s a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.” And if you don’t like it, you can “go suck lemons,” the governor says. I’ll pass on the lemons. But I would like an independent analysis to chew on.
While the media were preoccupied with the fate of the Affordable Care Act, important news about Social Security, Medicare, and an impending federal debt crisis went unreported.
School choice backers donated generously to Walker, but he’s vacillated on the issue.
New York Times leaves out some of the story. Where’s that liberal media bias?
Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo warns the more people on BadgerCare, the fewer providers will accept it because reimbursement rates from the government are so low. That means decreased access to health care for the state’s most vulnerable populations.
Gallagher and 42 other Democratic and GOP representatives have released “a bipartisan fix for health care” that would restrain Trump’s effort to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Let’s bring jobs to Wisconsin, but let’s make sure the final deal is a good one for all of Wisconsin.
It feels like we’re putting down an enormous, risky bet without a statewide economic plan for growth in place, which just doesn’t feel like the Wisconsin way.
The Foxconn deal merely epitomizes more of the same: tax breaks and handouts for corporate cronies and the wealthy. Meanwhile, the financial burden of these incentives continues to be shouldered squarely on the backs of working-class and poor families.
Each job created could cost the state anywhere from $17,273 to $54,159 per year.
Baldwin is upset that a judicial nomination by President Trump did not receive the super-majority support of a bipartisan judicial commission set up by her and Johnson. However, Baldwin is ignoring her own history when she bypassed the process and sent eight names to President Obama.
A recently published paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking reveals that the big drug companies have spent more on share buybacks and dividends during the last 10 years than they did on research and development.
The voucher sector in Milwaukee is growing stronger and better. Quality overall is improving. Many of the private schools are doing more to get their act together.
Day after day, I watch in horror as President Trump and his toadies plumb depths so low that one loses any capacity for shock.
Republican operatives are emulating Trump’s coarseness — none more so than right here in Wisconsin.
Much has been written about state incentives to bring high-tech manufacturer FoxConn to Wisconsin. Little has been written about proposed local incentives. The local commitment will likely be significant, so what follows are a few questions that local officials may want to consider.
We’re already on the technological stage. Now the Foxconn announcement has given us an international spotlight. It’s up to all of us to make the most of what could be a transformational opportunity for a city and region I’m proud to call home.
The $3 billion deal hatched for a new Wisconsin factory simply stinks.
