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They had seven years while vehemently opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which played out as the unaffordable Care Act, to craft with an elegant plan for governing the health care industry – nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Instead they made least-wurst sausage.
My Cargo Coffee Shop friend Charlie was elated with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s column recently that noted the anomaly of how excited we get about the possibility of terror attacks, but fall asleep whenever we talk about America’s real problem: guns.
If you ignore all the chatter and study Gorsuch’s record, however, what emerges is a portrait of a far-right judge who is even more extreme than Justice Antonin Scalia, and whose legal views would harm Wisconsin workers and families.
I am optimistic for the future of Wisconsin’s rural communities. I believe Governor Walker’s budget makes a strong investment in our rural communities and Wisconsin’s future.
State lawmakers in Wisconsin are seeking to pass a resolution that calls for a convention to make drastic changes to the U.S. Constitution. If enough states join this effort, delegates to such a convention could have wide-ranging authority to make amendments to the constitution with very little in the way of external controls on what they are enabled to do.
County’s countless expensive mistakes go back at least 15 years — and still no solution.
It was an awesome night; engaging, enlightening and entertaining. I never thought as a journalist I would have dinner at the White House with any president.
Our plan will create an environment for universal access to quality, affordable health care. It will help create more choices, lower costs, and give back control to individuals and families. It will move decisions away from Washington and into state programs, doctors’ offices, and family living rooms.
Groups on the right and left of the political spectrum have gripes with Ryan’s plan — and how those battles are fought will ultimately decide the fate of the ACA and millions of Americans’ health insurance.
House GOP plan does not go back to ground zero, where this disaster began. Instead, the plan is to go for “Obamacare Lite.” It’s simply a different version of Obamacare — a Republican version of Obamacare. It’s how President Obama himself might have done it.
2015 campaign finance law gives more power to wealthy and corporations.
Democrats and liberals cannot regain power until they fix the problem they have with men in general and white men in particular.
Two recent legislative initiatives provide a window onto which people state Republicans believe are worthy of government empathy and assistance, and which people should be a law enforcement priority.
Walker’s performance metrics may mean UWM serves fewer poor students.
The plan provides tax breaks to private-sector investors who back profitable construction projects; not to mention that the plan does not directly fund infrastructure projects like new roads or airports.
As Trump and his budget slashers take aim at climate change science, staff and expertise at the EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and even the Centers for Disease Control, remember that Walker and his DNR did it first.
Last session, in his budget, Gov. Walker proposed adding 102 new auditors to the Department of Revenue. I didn’t like the proposal, nor did many of my colleagues in the Legislature. A number of us tried to remove it from the budget. When that failed, to our discredit, we went along with it. We shouldn’t have.
Fewer and fewer citizens are getting their news from traditional newspapers. There is now a superior, more cost-effective way to keep the public informed–the internet.
In small towns and villages around this state folks who desire to get information about the places they live turn to their hometown papers.
Freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment have never been more threatened than they are today.
They had seven years while vehemently opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which played out as the unaffordable Care Act, to craft with an elegant plan for governing the health care industry – nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy. Instead they made least-wurst sausage.
My Cargo Coffee Shop friend Charlie was elated with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s column recently that noted the anomaly of how excited we get about the possibility of terror attacks, but fall asleep whenever we talk about America’s real problem: guns.
If you ignore all the chatter and study Gorsuch’s record, however, what emerges is a portrait of a far-right judge who is even more extreme than Justice Antonin Scalia, and whose legal views would harm Wisconsin workers and families.
I am optimistic for the future of Wisconsin’s rural communities. I believe Governor Walker’s budget makes a strong investment in our rural communities and Wisconsin’s future.
State lawmakers in Wisconsin are seeking to pass a resolution that calls for a convention to make drastic changes to the U.S. Constitution. If enough states join this effort, delegates to such a convention could have wide-ranging authority to make amendments to the constitution with very little in the way of external controls on what they are enabled to do.
County’s countless expensive mistakes go back at least 15 years — and still no solution.
It was an awesome night; engaging, enlightening and entertaining. I never thought as a journalist I would have dinner at the White House with any president.
Our plan will create an environment for universal access to quality, affordable health care. It will help create more choices, lower costs, and give back control to individuals and families. It will move decisions away from Washington and into state programs, doctors’ offices, and family living rooms.
Groups on the right and left of the political spectrum have gripes with Ryan’s plan — and how those battles are fought will ultimately decide the fate of the ACA and millions of Americans’ health insurance.
House GOP plan does not go back to ground zero, where this disaster began. Instead, the plan is to go for “Obamacare Lite.” It’s simply a different version of Obamacare — a Republican version of Obamacare. It’s how President Obama himself might have done it.
2015 campaign finance law gives more power to wealthy and corporations.
Democrats and liberals cannot regain power until they fix the problem they have with men in general and white men in particular.
Two recent legislative initiatives provide a window onto which people state Republicans believe are worthy of government empathy and assistance, and which people should be a law enforcement priority.
Walker’s performance metrics may mean UWM serves fewer poor students.
The plan provides tax breaks to private-sector investors who back profitable construction projects; not to mention that the plan does not directly fund infrastructure projects like new roads or airports.
As Trump and his budget slashers take aim at climate change science, staff and expertise at the EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and even the Centers for Disease Control, remember that Walker and his DNR did it first.
Last session, in his budget, Gov. Walker proposed adding 102 new auditors to the Department of Revenue. I didn’t like the proposal, nor did many of my colleagues in the Legislature. A number of us tried to remove it from the budget. When that failed, to our discredit, we went along with it. We shouldn’t have.
Fewer and fewer citizens are getting their news from traditional newspapers. There is now a superior, more cost-effective way to keep the public informed–the internet.
In small towns and villages around this state folks who desire to get information about the places they live turn to their hometown papers.
Freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment have never been more threatened than they are today.
