And we’re just getting started. Foxconn, for example, will begin construction this year on a $10 billion campus. This will require 10,000 construction workers from all over the state. Earth movers from Hoffman Construction out of Black River Falls are already starting work on the infrastructure for this major project.
Families, workers, and companies from across the state will benefit from one of the largest economic development projects in the history of America. Once operational, Foxconn will spend roughly $1.4 billion a year with Wisconsin businesses. ...
If you are a small business that would like to be a part of the Foxconn team, I invite you to sign up on the website, wisupplychainmarketplace.com.
Most importantly, Foxconn will be one more reason for our graduates to stay in Wisconsin. Young people like Amber, who is a student at Gateway Technical College, Joey and Tim, who attend Madison College, and Eric, who is a student at Fox Valley Technical College. They all have plans to be a part of the 13,000 people working on the Foxconn team. Thank you for being such a visible reminder of all the employers that are growing here in Wisconsin.Of course he made no mention of the record-setting, $4.5 billion taxpayer subsidies involved, as if there were no public dollars involved, or if the money was coming from the company itself, or elsewhere.
The state Department of Natural Resources Board declined to grant the agency blanket approval to change pre-1996 State Park master plans. Natural Resources Board members said they would consider changing state parks’ master plans on a park-by-park basis.Thank you to Claudia Bricks, FBRF spokesperson, for her comments along with Sarah Geers, Midwest Environment Advocates. Karl Heil, former Blue Mound Park superintendent, also gave powerful commentary. You can listen to the Request for Approval to change pre 1996 State Park master plans and comments beginning at 4:41 here:
dnrmedia.wi.gov/main/Catalog/Full/9da0bb432fd448a69d86756192a62f1721
PLEASE CONTINUE TO SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION OBJECTING TO THE SELLING OFF OF KOHLER ANDRAE PARK FOR KOHLER'S PRIVATE PROFIT
change.org/p/wisconsin-department-of-natural-resources-the-wisconsin-dnr-must-deny-kohler-company-the-use-of-public-state-lands-for-their-private-profit-the-role-of-the-wdnr-is-to-protect-the-environment-not-work-for-developersThis is a good development, as it slows speedy changes to Kohler Andrae State Park operations in favor of one private party.
You may remember that a coalition of the state's largest ag interests sent the Legislature a hand-delivered demand for water privatization rights that the DNR and Attorney General basically swallowed whole.
And you may also remember when the DNR tried to toughen water pollution rules for the dairy industry in 2016, Walker alerted the special interest and the proposal was weakened on the industry's terms:
After Scott Walker's office alerts farm lobby, clean water regulations scaled back
Walker's interference on behalf of the special interest is part of a long and wide pattern that rewards donors, enables polluters and keeps citizens and advocacy groups at further disadvantage.And Walker, with the Legislatures complicity, has also promoted policies which have led to a huge increase in polluted waterways across the state.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Tuesday that an informant has told Congress that a "secret society" was set up within the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice shortly after Donald Trump was elected president....We have to dig into it. This is not a distraction. Again, this is bias, potentially corruption, at the highest levels of the FBI.”Remind you of anyone?
Speaking before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator McCarthy waved before his audience a piece of paper. According to the only published newspaper account of the speech, McCarthy said that, “I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”
In the next few weeks, the number fluctuated wildly, with McCarthy stating at various times that there were 57, or 81, or 10 communists in the Department of State. In fact, McCarthy never produced any solid evidence that there was even one communist in the State Department.
Republican state senators Tuesday denied the confirmations of the directors of Wisconsin's ethics and elections commissions — and the leader of the state Senate said he hoped to remove two civil servants at those agencies next.
Senate Republicans Thursday ordered the forcible detention of their 14 Democratic colleagues, who fled the state two weeks ago to avoid a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill.
"They have pushed us to the edge of a constitutional crisis," Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said of the boycotting senators.
But it remained unclear Thursday whether the resolution and warrants seeking to force the senators back to the Capitol are legal. The state constitution prohibits the arrest of legislators while in session unless they're suspected of committing felonies, treason or breach of the peace.This, however, is happening in broad daylight, like much of what's happening in the Trump era.
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First CWD detection in Lincoln County will result in baiting and feeding ban in Lincoln and Langlade Counties
MADISON - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has received confirmation that a wild deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in northeast Lincoln County, south of Rhinelander.I'd noted the trend in a recent post about Walker's indifference to problems he's let fester in Wisconsin, including disintegrating roads, substandard bridges and education funding disparities:
The DNR failed to adequately test the 10-mile radius around a 2011 CWD case in Washburn County; and more recently it’s failed to scientifically assess the 10-mile radiuses around CWD discoveries on private deer farms in Marathon, Oneida, Oconto, Shawano and Waupaca counties...
When Gov. Scott Walker’s administration took office in January 2011, it ignored that policy in the Washburn County case, which brought this rebuke from James Kroll, the governor’s “deer czar” in 2012:
“The reaction to the … infected deer … should have included a faster response to determine the extent of distribution. Waiting until deer season in fall 2012 to sample for CWD is not adequate. A proper approach would have been use of a health check/surveillance team … deployed immediately on such a finding. … Once the geographic context is determined, the appropriate action should be focused, localized eradication.”And Durkin wrote separately that testing for the disease has actually fallen during Walker's tenure:
Unfortunately, CWD testing in Wisconsin has plummeted in recent years because of budget cuts and the end of in-person deer registration in 2015. From 2002 through 2006 the Department of Natural Resources averaged 25,858 CWD tests annually.
Soon after, lawmakers like former Rep. Scott Gunderson, R-Waterford, slashed CWD funding, causing CWD tests to average 9,053 from 2007 through 2010, a nearly three-fold decline. Since 2010, the DNR has averaged a record low 5,545 CWD tests annually, even while documenting record CWD cases, including 447 in 2016.What constituency, exactly, does less CWD testing serve as the disease is expanding?
"As a Menominee I have the obligation to protect my ancestors... It matters so much. We need you. The earth needs you... If you have been waiting for a sign, this is your sign. This is the time for us to stand together... in defense with our mother. What are you going to do?" https://livestream.com/ IndianCountryTV/events/ 7070263/videos/167885806
Then other Menominee voices share our common purpose.
Chair of Menominee Nation, Gary Besaw: "We are the Land"
https://www.facebook.com/paul. demain/videos/1021098783243335 2/ Burton Warrington outlines some "legal positioning."
https://www.facebook.com/paul. demain/videos/1021099339709246 5/ Video#2 Chair Gary Besaw thanks for those supporting the No Back Forty Mine effort. "Slowly our numbers grow...."
https://www.facebook.com/paul. demain/videos/1021099425503391 3/ Anahkwet Guy Reiter "Why Menominee people help preserve the Menominee River for everybody"
The push and pull between Michigan’s growing agriculture industry and the need to protect drinking water, beach recreation and tourism continues to play out, evidenced by a request to establish a factory pig farm a few miles from Lake Michigan.
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Due to changes in government funding, Waukesha County Transit Routes operated by Wisconsin Coach will no longer be free of charge to UWM students and staff.
Wisconsin Coach and Waukesha County have also reduced the frequency of routes 904 and 905, which come directly to UWM.
More details on these changes, including additional service updates, are available on the Waukesha Metro website.
Students and staff should note that fares on the routes must be paid in cash, as no credit cards are accepted and no change is given.
Those now seeking an alternate form of transportation can consider driving to the Capitol/Humboldt Park and Ride Lot and taking the UPARK shuttle to campus.
The MCTS Park and Ride lots are another good options.
| Fare Type | Fare |
|---|---|
| Adult cash | $3.50 |
| Children 4 and under | Free |
| Children 5-17 | $2.50 |
| Commuter Book Fare | 10% discount |
| Elderly/disabled cash | $1.75 |
| Student cash | $2.50 |
| Transfers from MCTS | $0.50 discount |
| Transfers from Metro | $2 discount |
| Fare Type | Fare |
|---|---|
| Adult cash | $4.25 |
| Children 4 and under | Free |
| Children 5-17 | $3.25 |
| Commuter Book Fare | 10% discount |
| Elderly/disabled cash | $2 |
| Student cash | $3.25 |
| Transfers from MCTS | $0.50 discount |
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