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As hunger looms, Democrats in ‘non-winnable’ situation
Impending loss of FoodShare benefits eclipses unrelated big changes coming Monday The paradox of a political party wholly invested in growing the social welfare state but refusing to open the government to feed impoverished…
Port Washington to be land of opportunity for job-seekers
Tech school grads among those who’ll benefit from data centers Technical college graduates and small business owners will be big winners in the massive Vantage Data Centers development soon expected to become the largest…
Reckless Milwaukee drivers pushing conservatives out of traditional lane
Camera culture becoming even more pervasive Sen. Cory Tomczyk, a Republican from Mosinee, says he fully expects to take criticism from his own party for helping author a bill that would allow Milwaukee police to use cameras…
Claims of data center water use are laughably wrong
Lake Michigan not imperiled by water needs The biggest data centers planned for Wisconsin, the Microsoft project in Mount Pleasant and the Vantage project in Port Washington, are not a threat to local water systems or to Lake…
Bill would use tax credit to lower cost barrier to new nuclear in Wisconsin
Measure includes shifts in state’s priorities in law for ‘only way we keep lights on’ Legislation touted by its sponsor as the logical follow-up to a bipartisan bill signaling support for new nuclear energy in Wisconsin got…
Fixing regulatory rampage will require amendment, say observers
But reforms via statute might help Wisconsin avoid a still more onerous environment Fixing the damage wreaked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court when it stripped the Legislature of its power to halt bureaucrats’ regulations will…
Fight over Obamacare is fight worth having
Wisconsin taxpayers ought to be rooting hard for conservatives to hold the line during this current federal government shutdown and let the pandemic-era super-subsidies for the Affordable Care Act run out at the end of the…
Assembly votes to counter Supreme Court and bureaucrats; delays costly building code changes
Lawmakers advanced a bill this week to buy time for Wisconsin construction projects blindsided by a state agency’s abrupt implementation of a new commercial building code. The Assembly on Tuesday passed, on a party-line 54-41…
School-bus Wi-Fi finally gets reined in while pandemic-era home internet subsidies only now dribble out
Two more ways government manages to screw up subsidies There’s more evidence in recent days that the federal government spends money in two ways — too quickly and too slowly. Proof of both stems from programs that were…
Village’s hostility chases out restaurateur who bought derelict Door County resort
Bureaucracy and personal attacks stymie plan for houses; ‘No way are we going to live in Egg Harbor’ Matthew Sagorac is ready to walk away from the battle for the soul of Egg Harbor before any of the real shots have been…
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