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Many Western Wisconsin roads and other infrastructure washed out in 2016 floods are still not rebuilt; one NW local official says he has seen a dozen 100-year-storms in the last 30 years, while a state official says road-building standards have not caught up with “evidence … pointing towards increasing frequency of large” storm events.
The MacIver Institute has dug into the numbers, taken a deeper dive into DOT projects that are at the very least questionable, if not an outright waste of taxpayer money, and administrative failures that have added substantial and unnecessary costs.
Latest GOP approach is bad news for this state and others.
Access to affordable, high quality health care is a duty of our society to everyone. Health care for all is a moral responsibility of our people to each other.
While nursing it is currently one of the fastest growing occupations in the nation, the demand for nurses is outpacing the supply and the nation is facing a severe shortage here in Wisconsin, and nationwide.
Mac Davis went all-in against roundabouts, as if that were the cause or the heart or the substance of Wisconsin’s transportation over-built, unfunded, special-interest infested major highway expansion problem.
Call it what you will: “Global Warming” or “Climate Change.” The issue is real and portends to only get worse, as evident by this most recent climatic shift.
If legislators believe DOT has wasted tax dollars and been mismanaged for years, why did Senate Republicans last week want to borrow $712 million more for that agency to spend on highways over the next two years?
A Capitol cliche, widely employed and often accurately so, goes about like this: “Tommy would not have let this happen.” It most surely applies to the current budget stalemate.
House Speaker Paul Ryan had an opportunity not merely to reassert the authority of the chamber he is supposed to lead but also to steer the United States away from the dangerous course of endless war and steady subservience to an ever-more-powerful military-industrial complex.
Seizing an individual’s property without a conviction — or even an arrest — makes a shambles of due process and invites abuse by police departments.
While Ryan claims to be on the side of the working class people of his home town of Janesville, his Randian beliefs and his complete lack of interest in actually meeting with his constituents face-to-face paint a very different picture.
Wisconsin law requires lifeguards to be at least 16 — a requirement that may be compounding a shortage that forced a Wisconsin Dells resort to delay the opening of part of its outdoor waterpark this year.
Republicans should stop trying to repeal or sabotage the ACA and instead cooperate with Democrats to make the ACA better.
Certainly the governor has already begun to think about potential replacements for Brancel. Into that certainly tough and complete search process should be thrown the name of Pam Jahnke, also known as the Fabulous Farm Babe.
There is an interesting if not amusing “debate through the media” about the state’s transportation funding taking place between long-time conservative George Mitchell and Sen. Duey Stroebel.
The game of chicken over the state budget continued Friday, but the sides have changed.
Over the past weeks the narrative about the agenda that Ryan now is pressing down on, following the most embarrassing flop of health care reform, shows a number of problems.
But without the FM translator, Mike Crute’s “Resistance Radio” station will likely have a smaller audience and less value in the marketplace.
The repeal-replace rhetoric was absurd with Obama in office and it remains a bigger absurdity today as the ACA has taken hold and helped far more Americans than claim damage despite the drumbeat of GOP ads.
Many Western Wisconsin roads and other infrastructure washed out in 2016 floods are still not rebuilt; one NW local official says he has seen a dozen 100-year-storms in the last 30 years, while a state official says road-building standards have not caught up with “evidence … pointing towards increasing frequency of large” storm events.
The MacIver Institute has dug into the numbers, taken a deeper dive into DOT projects that are at the very least questionable, if not an outright waste of taxpayer money, and administrative failures that have added substantial and unnecessary costs.
Latest GOP approach is bad news for this state and others.
Access to affordable, high quality health care is a duty of our society to everyone. Health care for all is a moral responsibility of our people to each other.
While nursing it is currently one of the fastest growing occupations in the nation, the demand for nurses is outpacing the supply and the nation is facing a severe shortage here in Wisconsin, and nationwide.
Mac Davis went all-in against roundabouts, as if that were the cause or the heart or the substance of Wisconsin’s transportation over-built, unfunded, special-interest infested major highway expansion problem.
Call it what you will: “Global Warming” or “Climate Change.” The issue is real and portends to only get worse, as evident by this most recent climatic shift.
If legislators believe DOT has wasted tax dollars and been mismanaged for years, why did Senate Republicans last week want to borrow $712 million more for that agency to spend on highways over the next two years?
A Capitol cliche, widely employed and often accurately so, goes about like this: “Tommy would not have let this happen.” It most surely applies to the current budget stalemate.
House Speaker Paul Ryan had an opportunity not merely to reassert the authority of the chamber he is supposed to lead but also to steer the United States away from the dangerous course of endless war and steady subservience to an ever-more-powerful military-industrial complex.
Seizing an individual’s property without a conviction — or even an arrest — makes a shambles of due process and invites abuse by police departments.
While Ryan claims to be on the side of the working class people of his home town of Janesville, his Randian beliefs and his complete lack of interest in actually meeting with his constituents face-to-face paint a very different picture.
Wisconsin law requires lifeguards to be at least 16 — a requirement that may be compounding a shortage that forced a Wisconsin Dells resort to delay the opening of part of its outdoor waterpark this year.
Republicans should stop trying to repeal or sabotage the ACA and instead cooperate with Democrats to make the ACA better.
Certainly the governor has already begun to think about potential replacements for Brancel. Into that certainly tough and complete search process should be thrown the name of Pam Jahnke, also known as the Fabulous Farm Babe.
There is an interesting if not amusing “debate through the media” about the state’s transportation funding taking place between long-time conservative George Mitchell and Sen. Duey Stroebel.
The game of chicken over the state budget continued Friday, but the sides have changed.
Over the past weeks the narrative about the agenda that Ryan now is pressing down on, following the most embarrassing flop of health care reform, shows a number of problems.
But without the FM translator, Mike Crute’s “Resistance Radio” station will likely have a smaller audience and less value in the marketplace.
The repeal-replace rhetoric was absurd with Obama in office and it remains a bigger absurdity today as the ACA has taken hold and helped far more Americans than claim damage despite the drumbeat of GOP ads.