How Scott Walker Made Wisconsin the National Poster Child for Dark Money Corruption - EXPOSEDbyCMD. State projects future revenues to be down $282 million from last estimate. Foxconn changes focus of massive Wisconsin project. Foxconn Technology Group is changing the focus of its planned $10 billion Wisconsin campus, while insisting it remains committed to creating 13,000 jobs as promised.
The world's leading electronics manufacturer said in a statement Wednesday that because of a changed global marketplace, all of its projects including the one in Wisconsin are being "adjusted to meet these new realities. " "We remain committed to the Wisconsin Valley Science and Technology Park Project, the creation of 13,000 jobs, and to our long-term investment in Wisconsin. As we have previously noted, the global market environment that existed when the project was first announced has changed," the company said. The statement comes after Foxconn official Louis Woo told Reuters in a story published Wednesday that its plans to build liquid crystal display panel screens are being scaled back and possibly shelved. Nelson, Karla, Emily, Amogh: Immigrant stories. Final recommendations of school funding panel released. The final report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding was released Jan. 7 by co-chairs Rep.
Joel Kitchens (R-Sturgeon Bay) and Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon). The report was compiled by the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau staff and contains the Commission’s recommendations for school funding reforms in 13 different areas. Those topic areas range from adjusting revenue limits for inflation and how to calculate revenue limits for districts with declining enrollment to increasing state aid to local school districts to help cover the costs of services provided to special education students, English language learners, and students in need of mental health services, to modifications to sparsity aid, high cost transportation aid and the timing of the distribution of school aids. Fact Checking the Lies About National Emergency. 'They don't care': Facebook factchecking in disarray as journalists push to cut ties. Journalists working as factcheckers for Facebook have pushed to end a controversial media partnership with the social network, saying the company has ignored their concerns and failed to use their expertise to combat misinformation.
Current and former Facebook factcheckers told the Guardian that the tech platform’s collaboration with outside reporters has produced minimal results and that they’ve lost trust in Facebook, which has repeatedly refused to release meaningful data about the impacts of their work. Some said Facebook’s hiring of a PR firm that used an antisemitic narrative to discredit critics – fueling the same kind of propaganda factcheckers regularly debunk – should be a deal-breaker. “They’ve essentially used us for crisis PR,” said Brooke Binkowski, former managing editor of Snopes, a factchecking site that has partnered with Facebook for two years. “They’re not taking anything seriously. Eu.jsonline. Despite Protests, Republicans Approve Proposals to Limit New Gov’s Power.
Despite Protests, Republicans Approve Proposals to Limit New Gov’s Power. Untitled. Gov.
Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald began their reign of error almost eight years ago with a “budget repair bill” that attacked public employees and the unions that represent them and paved the way for attacks on public education and public services. The impact was disastrous. While neighboring states experienced rapid growth in a period of economic recovery after the Bush-Cheney recession, Wisconsin struggled to keep up. Even now, when compared with states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin is underperforming. Common Cause Wisconsin: The Entire Lame Duck Session Agenda Should Be Rejected This Week.
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Untitled. Progressive magazine looks for donations after 110 years. NBC and Fox News pull Trump campaign's racist ad after 'Sunday Night Football' backlash. Wisconsin’s $4.1 billion Foxconn factory boondoggle. It was a veritable lovefest in Milwaukee in July 2017 when Republican Gov.
Scott Walker and Foxconn chairman Terry Gou announced their plan to create a heavily subsidized manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin. Reported Outside Electioneering at $24M Led by GOP Groups - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. October 24, 2018 Spending by GOP outside electioneering groups outpaced Democratic groups about 2.5 to 1 as reported spending by special interests in the fall elections neared $24 million.
Republican express advocacy groups have doled out $17.3 million compared to $6.6 million by Democratic groups, according to reports filed by the groups as of Wednesday morning. Express advocacy groups sponsored broadcast and online advertising, mailings and other electioneering activities that use the magic words “vote for” or “vote against” or their equivalents. A Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review of the reports showed the vast majority of the outside spending – about $17 million - was in the governor’s race, where GOP Gov. Scott Walker is vying for a third four-year term against Democrat Tony Evers. Hundreds of Thousands of Wisconsin Voters Purged from Rolls Since 2016 General Election - EXPOSEDbyCMD. The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire. Riding Backroads for Change in Rural Wisconsin. Wilbur Ross Lied, and Bannon and Kobach were Masterminds of Census Question.
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Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics. Potholes, Public Health, Politics: Try Your Hand at County Leadership - Daily Yonder. An online game shows players the promise and pitfalls of holding office in a county government.
The game’s developers, iCivics and the National Association of Counties, hope some friendly competition will teach Americans about the challenges of sustaining successful local governments. I love to play games, primarily of the in-person playing-card and board-game type. Untitled. “Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1954 The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge – the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part – the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. The Factory That Ate Wisconsin. This June, Foxconn Technology Group broke ground for a new flat-screen plant in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The Taiwanese company plans to invest $10 billion there, but the state will give it tax credits of as much as $4 billion, by far the largest corporate subsidy in Wisconsin history.
It will also be the biggest handout in American history to a corporation based outside the United States. Governor Scott Walker, who is running for a third term, and President Trump have both praised the deal as clear evidence that Republicans have brought manufacturing back. For state Democrats, the Foxconn plant represents a challenge: how to come up with a more compelling way to create good jobs, both to defeat Walker this fall and in order to provide a sustainable alternative to the corporate-driven one Republicans offer.
For Walker, the stakes of the Foxconn deal are high. Untitled. Scott Walker misleads in claiming Tony Evers could have revoked teacher license in porn viewing case.