Contact: Sen. Devin LeMahieu (608) 266-2056 Rep. Terry Katsma (608) 266-0656 Rep. Tyler Vorpagel (608) 266-8530 Madison- State Senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) and State Representatives Terry Katsma (R-Oostburg) and Tyler Vorpagel (R-Plymouth) issued the following statement regarding the passage of
The Joint Finance Committee kicked of its final budget action Wednesday with a 12-4 party-line vote to revamp the special needs scholarship, which allows students with a disability to receive state money to attend private schools. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau
GOP U.S. Sen. John McCain and his Dem colleague Sheldon Whitehouse are among the more than two dozen parties who filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find Wisconsin’s Assembly maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. McCain, R-Ariz., and
A motion that would dial back some local governments’ regulations of quarries where the material is mined for transportation projects is drawing fire from WMC for picking “winners and losers” among the state’s industries. But Aggregate Producers of Wisconsin Executive
Planned expansions of the Milwaukee streetcar would become much more difficult under the transportation motion that JFC signed off on last night, one critic says. Milwaukee’s streetcar, which local officials say will boost economic development downtown, has drawn the ire
Contact: Senator Jon Erpenbach 608-266-6670 Statement of Senator Jon Erpenbach on the partisan passage of the Republican Transportation budget. Senator Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Joint Committee on Finance, the state budget committee. “After a long summer wait
Contact: Sen. Leah Vukmir (608) 266-2512 Sen.Vukmir@legis.wi.gov MADISON, Wis. — State Sen. Leah Vukmir, R–Brookfield, applauded the inclusion of the repeal of Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law in the transportation budget package in Tuesday’s Joint Finance Committee hearing. “The repeal
Senator Alberta Darling 1-608-266-5830 Madison – On Tuesday, State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) issued the following statement after the Joint Committee on Finance approved the Foxconn bill. “If I was in another state, I would say you were nuts
CONTACT: Gretchen Schuldt, WJI executive director: 414-331-0724; gretchen@wjiinc.org Wisconsin Justice Initiative Executive Director Gretchen Schuldt released the following statement on the Joint Finance Committee’s proposal to allow Foxconn-related litigation to skip the Court of Appeals go directly to the State
Contact: Rep. Ohnstad, 608-266-0455 MADISON, WI. – Today, Representative Tod Ohnstad (D-Kenosha) called on Speaker Paul Ryan to oppose President Trump’s ill-advised decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In a letter to Speaker Ryan, Rep. Ohnstad calls
Contact: Olivia Hwang, 608.266.5504 MADISON, WI. – Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) released the following statement this evening after reviewing the Republican Joint Finance Committee transportation plan: “Republicans spent more than two months squabbling with each other and this is
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 MADISON, WI. – Governor Scott Walker released the following statement after the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee approved the two-year transportation budget. “This budget includes more transportation funding for all levels of government to
Contact: Mary McCarthy (262) 204-7213 BROOKFIELD, WI. —Tom Palzewicz, a successful small business owner and U.S. Navy veteran, announced today he is launching a campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s 5th District. “My campaign is going to be
Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Building Flambeau River Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 610 North Whitney Way, Madison, Wisconsin.
It makes no sense that after the over-the-top accommodations already promised to Foxconn, we would allow the company to bypass controls designed to mitigate flood and pollution disasters. It makes no sense from a moral perspective, or a financial one.
The Legislature’s vetting of the Foxconn deal should and will continue, but no one should be fooled into thinking nations, states and communities don’t compete every day. Rather than wishing away such competition, it’s mainly about calculating certain risks for uncertain rewards.
The 2.7 economic multiplier is absurdly high. Here’s why.
What passed in JFC is nothing short of a most extraordinary legal device which would allow for Foxconn lawsuits to not head to appeal trial courts but rather get directly moved to the state Supreme Court. The move is not well-reasoned and allows for a thumb to be placed on the scales of justice.
Environmental issues has almost disappeared from the public debate, except when large scale projects come to the fore, like the proposed, but now defunct, GeoTac iron mine in Northwestern Wisconsin or the pending Foxconn manufacturing plant in Southeastern Wisconsin.
The US has horribly moved from overly optimistic hope into morass and cynicism.
Contact: Sen. Devin LeMahieu (608) 266-2056 Rep. Terry Katsma (608) 266-0656 Rep. Tyler Vorpagel (608) 266-8530 Madison- State Senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) and State Representatives Terry Katsma (R-Oostburg) and Tyler Vorpagel (R-Plymouth) issued the following statement regarding the passage of State Highway funding for Highway 23: “Highway 23 remains our
The Joint Finance Committee kicked of its final budget action Wednesday with a 12-4 party-line vote to revamp the special needs scholarship, which allows students with a disability to receive state money to attend private schools. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimated the changes would add 250 students in 2018-19, doubling
GOP U.S. Sen. John McCain and his Dem colleague Sheldon Whitehouse are among the more than two dozen parties who filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to find Wisconsin’s Assembly maps were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. McCain, R-Ariz., and Whitehouse, D-R.I., bemoaned what they say is an “influencer class”
A motion that would dial back some local governments’ regulations of quarries where the material is mined for transportation projects is drawing fire from WMC for picking “winners and losers” among the state’s industries. But Aggregate Producers of Wisconsin Executive Director Erin Longmire said the motion was a response to
Planned expansions of the Milwaukee streetcar would become much more difficult under the transportation motion that JFC signed off on last night, one critic says. Milwaukee’s streetcar, which local officials say will boost economic development downtown, has drawn the ire of Republican lawmakers who say people outside the city shouldn’t
Contact: Senator Jon Erpenbach 608-266-6670 Statement of Senator Jon Erpenbach on the partisan passage of the Republican Transportation budget. Senator Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Joint Committee on Finance, the state budget committee. “After a long summer wait for someone, anyone, in the Republican party to step up
Contact: Sen. Leah Vukmir (608) 266-2512 Sen.Vukmir@legis.wi.gov MADISON, Wis. — State Sen. Leah Vukmir, R–Brookfield, applauded the inclusion of the repeal of Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law in the transportation budget package in Tuesday’s Joint Finance Committee hearing. “The repeal of the state prevailing wage is an incredible victory for
Senator Alberta Darling 1-608-266-5830 Madison – On Tuesday, State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) issued the following statement after the Joint Committee on Finance approved the Foxconn bill. “If I was in another state, I would say you were nuts if you didn’t take this deal. Forty-nine other states wish
CONTACT: Gretchen Schuldt, WJI executive director: 414-331-0724; gretchen@wjiinc.org Wisconsin Justice Initiative Executive Director Gretchen Schuldt released the following statement on the Joint Finance Committee’s proposal to allow Foxconn-related litigation to skip the Court of Appeals go directly to the State Supreme Court: “Joint Finance’s action would basically gut one of
Contact: Rep. Ohnstad, 608-266-0455 MADISON, WI. – Today, Representative Tod Ohnstad (D-Kenosha) called on Speaker Paul Ryan to oppose President Trump’s ill-advised decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In a letter to Speaker Ryan, Rep. Ohnstad calls on Speaker Ryan and Congress to act to restore DACA.
Contact: Olivia Hwang, 608.266.5504 MADISON, WI. – Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) released the following statement this evening after reviewing the Republican Joint Finance Committee transportation plan: “Republicans spent more than two months squabbling with each other and this is the result – a spending plan that still doesn’t create
Contact: Tom Evenson, (608) 266-2839 MADISON, WI. – Governor Scott Walker released the following statement after the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee approved the two-year transportation budget. “This budget includes more transportation funding for all levels of government to provide better roads and bridges, the most funding in our
Contact: Mary McCarthy (262) 204-7213 BROOKFIELD, WI. —Tom Palzewicz, a successful small business owner and U.S. Navy veteran, announced today he is launching a campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin’s 5th District. “My campaign is going to be about helping more people achieve the American Dream,” said Palzewicz.
Public Service Commission of Wisconsin Building Flambeau River Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 610 North Whitney Way, Madison, Wisconsin.
It makes no sense that after the over-the-top accommodations already promised to Foxconn, we would allow the company to bypass controls designed to mitigate flood and pollution disasters. It makes no sense from a moral perspective, or a financial one.
The Legislature’s vetting of the Foxconn deal should and will continue, but no one should be fooled into thinking nations, states and communities don’t compete every day. Rather than wishing away such competition, it’s mainly about calculating certain risks for uncertain rewards.
The 2.7 economic multiplier is absurdly high. Here’s why.
What passed in JFC is nothing short of a most extraordinary legal device which would allow for Foxconn lawsuits to not head to appeal trial courts but rather get directly moved to the state Supreme Court. The move is not well-reasoned and allows for a thumb to be placed on the scales of justice.
Environmental issues has almost disappeared from the public debate, except when large scale projects come to the fore, like the proposed, but now defunct, GeoTac iron mine in Northwestern Wisconsin or the pending Foxconn manufacturing plant in Southeastern Wisconsin.
The US has horribly moved from overly optimistic hope into morass and cynicism.