Sunday, March 3, 2013
From overcoming a major speech impediment to the changes in a 100-year-old state law, Patch bloggers weighed in on a variety of topics this week. Here is a look at some of the most popular posts over the past week.
Blog posts in Wisconsin Patches this past week ran the gamut — from determining a "fair share" in our tax system to overcoming a speech impediment and hearing a child's first words. Every day, Patch's Local Voices bloggers share information, insight and opinion about what matters to them. Here's a selection of blogs from throughout the past week. Mount Pleasant Patch blogger, Bottom Line, asked readers, "What Is a Fair Share?" in a post this week that garnered more than 150 comments. He took a look at President Obama's request that the wealthy pay their fair share, but what is that fair share? Patch readers shared their ideas, ranging from a flat tax system to limiting the inheritance tax. While this isn't the newest post on Patch, this …
Thursday, February 28, 2013
More than 6,200 federal employees who work in Milwaukee County could potentially be affected by sequester, which is slated to start Friday.
Unless Congress reaches a last-minute agreement on the sequester by Friday, the huge budget cuts slated to kick in have the potential to affect more than 6,200 federal employees working in Milwaukee County. Barring any kind of deal, the Obama administration will have to impose $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts to military and domestic programs on Friday, according to The New York Times. Those cuts would be the start of $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. The numbers in the graph above show the number of federal employees in Wisconsin by county in 2012, according to the latest figures from Eye on Washington, a DC-based lobbying firm that tracks federal employment. It compiles the data from the U.S. Office of Personnel …
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Report released Sunday by Obama administration details more than a dozen areas in which federal aid would be cut — primarily in education and health care.
Wisconsin would see more than $27 million in federal funds cut from a myriad of programs if Congress fails to act this week to avoid the sequester, the Obama administration said Sunday. In a move designed to pressure Republicans into accepting new revenues as part of a deal to prevent the sequester from taking effect on Friday, the White House released reports that outlined how those cuts would impact individual states, The Huffington Post reported. In Wisconsin, most of the $27.4 million in looming cuts would affect education programs, the report said. For example, the state would lose $8.5 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 120 teacher and teacher aide jobs at risk. Wisconsin also would lose about $10.…
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1:54 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Meanwhile--the TeaGOP can't stop being STUPID!! @Progress2day Iowa GOP Lawmakers Try To Curtail Divorce, Worry It Makes Young Women More 'Promiscuous' huff.to/1012Jrz All 50 states currently allow no-fault divorce. Betsey Stevenson, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied divorce, has found that such laws help women, leading to a drop in domestic violence. The Iowa … more ›