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National TV news anchors were calling out Wisconsin voters February 7 immediately after the US Senate barely approved Betsy DeVos as new education secretary.
Though its costs were completely covered by subscribers, and the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine had a long and useful run, Scott Walker and Secretary Cathy Stepp are using the state budget to wipe out the credible, high-quality publication that published items no longer wanted by official Wisconsin.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal for a law to protect offensive speech.
Concrete Clete and Don The Bridge are rolling in their graves, disgusted that a state once so progressive in building infrastructure now can only seem to throw its resources at building monstrous interchanges around the state’s bigger cities, while allowing the rest of our rural roads and bridges to crumble.
The examples abound when it comes to Republicans’ frightful predictions about Obama’s policies.
Today, Wisconsin Democrats are at their lowest ebb since, well, 1957. That’s 60 years, folks.
Progressive Caucus Vice Chair Mark Pocan says the president must resolve “direct conflicts in both domestic and foreign policy” or face constitutional consequences.
Jeff Mayers of WisPolitics.com moderates a discussion with John Nichols of the Cap Times and Brian Fraley of Edge Messaging LLC during the Wisconsin Counties Association Legislative Exchange.
Over the past decade, WisconsinEye has proven that it will not only deliver on its promise to provide the evenhanded, gavel-to-gavel coverage the viewers have come to appreciate, but it will go above and beyond to create invaluable programs that speak to the hearts and minds of the people of Wisconsin – all without losing sight of its mission.
To get the state’s scandalously-managed youth prisons into compliance with something called the federal “Prison Rape Elimination Act,” Scott Walker in his budget is proposing a 16% solution. 50 new staff hires are needed for compliance: Walker’s budget proposes eight.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. During his budget address, Governor Walker offered a new, exciting vision for how Wisconsin can once again lead the nation in
Contact your state Legislators and ask them to support allowing a “winter hold” on employees to help your community and the businesses that keep it working.
Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson called Trump’s Muslim ban “a pretty reasonable proposal” and asked critics to read Trump’s executive order and “tell me (Johnson) what you disagree with”. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit did just that.
For seven years, Republicans vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — insisting that they had a better plan to substitute immediately upon its repeal. Now that President Trump has taken the first steps toward repeal, we learn that Republicans have no such plan.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck talks about Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal requiring school employees to pay health insurance costs as a condition to get extra money.
With the unveiling of Governor Walker’s new budget this week, it’s clear the great reformer state is not done.
This rise in student debt has caused some people to adopt a “sky is falling” mentality that leads them to the conclusion there is only one possible remedy to the problem: More government. Here in Wisconsin, some people are insisting that state intervention is the only panacea that will address student debt. This proposal is very costly – and unnecessary.
Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court ought to be resisted.
Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs and their partners are building Wisconsin’s 21st century “knowledge economy” on a foundation that has long included expertise in manufacturing and agriculture, but which has expanded to include health care, software, financial services, energy innovation and more.
The Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, are back with a lightning round focusing on Trump, Walker and Obamacare. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
National TV news anchors were calling out Wisconsin voters February 7 immediately after the US Senate barely approved Betsy DeVos as new education secretary.
Though its costs were completely covered by subscribers, and the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine had a long and useful run, Scott Walker and Secretary Cathy Stepp are using the state budget to wipe out the credible, high-quality publication that published items no longer wanted by official Wisconsin.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal for a law to protect offensive speech.
Concrete Clete and Don The Bridge are rolling in their graves, disgusted that a state once so progressive in building infrastructure now can only seem to throw its resources at building monstrous interchanges around the state’s bigger cities, while allowing the rest of our rural roads and bridges to crumble.
The examples abound when it comes to Republicans’ frightful predictions about Obama’s policies.
Today, Wisconsin Democrats are at their lowest ebb since, well, 1957. That’s 60 years, folks.
Progressive Caucus Vice Chair Mark Pocan says the president must resolve “direct conflicts in both domestic and foreign policy” or face constitutional consequences.
Jeff Mayers of WisPolitics.com moderates a discussion with John Nichols of the Cap Times and Brian Fraley of Edge Messaging LLC during the Wisconsin Counties Association Legislative Exchange.
Over the past decade, WisconsinEye has proven that it will not only deliver on its promise to provide the evenhanded, gavel-to-gavel coverage the viewers have come to appreciate, but it will go above and beyond to create invaluable programs that speak to the hearts and minds of the people of Wisconsin – all without losing sight of its mission.
To get the state’s scandalously-managed youth prisons into compliance with something called the federal “Prison Rape Elimination Act,” Scott Walker in his budget is proposing a 16% solution. 50 new staff hires are needed for compliance: Walker’s budget proposes eight.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. During his budget address, Governor Walker offered a new, exciting vision for how Wisconsin can once again lead the nation in
Contact your state Legislators and ask them to support allowing a “winter hold” on employees to help your community and the businesses that keep it working.
Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson called Trump’s Muslim ban “a pretty reasonable proposal” and asked critics to read Trump’s executive order and “tell me (Johnson) what you disagree with”. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit did just that.
For seven years, Republicans vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — insisting that they had a better plan to substitute immediately upon its repeal. Now that President Trump has taken the first steps toward repeal, we learn that Republicans have no such plan.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck talks about Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal requiring school employees to pay health insurance costs as a condition to get extra money.
With the unveiling of Governor Walker’s new budget this week, it’s clear the great reformer state is not done.
This rise in student debt has caused some people to adopt a “sky is falling” mentality that leads them to the conclusion there is only one possible remedy to the problem: More government. Here in Wisconsin, some people are insisting that state intervention is the only panacea that will address student debt. This proposal is very costly – and unnecessary.
Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court ought to be resisted.
Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs and their partners are building Wisconsin’s 21st century “knowledge economy” on a foundation that has long included expertise in manufacturing and agriculture, but which has expanded to include health care, software, financial services, energy innovation and more.
The Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, are back with a lightning round focusing on Trump, Walker and Obamacare. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
