Thursday, April 4, 2013
In the first and only public hearing in southeast Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele asked Legislators to put money back into transit and child support services.
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele testified in front of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) on Thursday asking them to restore funding for the Milwaukee County Transit and statewide Child Support Services. The JFC met in Greendale for the first of four public hearings across the state on Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget. The proposed budget calls for a 10 percent cut in transit funding and Abele wants the funding restored because 150,000 people rely on the Milwaukee County Transit every day. If the funding is cut, routes could be cut and fares might be increased, he said. “Few priorities are as important in the current economy as creating and maintaining private sector jobs,” Abele said. “That is why we are …
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Gov. Scott Walker outlines his priorities in the upcoming state budget process in his weekly radio address.
Gov. Scott Walker gave his weekly radio address on Thursday. Here, he talks about the upcoming state budget process. Hi, I am Scott Walker. I recently received budget requests from each state agency, which outline the money each of those agencies would like to spend in the future. Over the next few months, I will be carefully reviewing each of these budget requests. These requests are just the first step in the budget process—I will eventually propose a complete budget early next year for consideration by members of the State Legislature. The budget I signed into law last year made long-term reforms balancing a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, without massive public employee layoffs, and without massive government …
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
While politicians on both sides craft talking points, Wisconsin residents speak out on the reforms that have passed in Walker's first year in office.
For years, Tom Scheer has stood on the political sidelines, but all that changed this year after Republican Gov. Scott Walker took office and introduced controversial limitations to collective bargaining, a bill allowing the concealed carry of weapons and a voter identification bill. Scheer was one of hundreds of people across the state who signed petitions to recall Walker Tuesday. He said Walker never talked about collective bargaining restrictions in his campaign, which to Scheer is representative of a larger silencing of the voice of people in Wisconsin. "Virtually everything he's done when he's been in office has been something that was not talked about during his campaign, and what the people have wanted since he was elected has been…
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The state Department of Instruction released state aid estimates Friday, and Bay will likely see state aid drop by just over $1 million.
State aid to the Whitefish Bay School District will drop a little more than 10 percent based on estimates released Friday by the state Department of Public Instruction. The district received $10,685,565 in the 2010-11 school year. In 2011-12 the figure is estimated to be $9,602,637 — a decrease of $1,082,928, or 10.13 percent. The district had expected a $1.3 million reduction in state aid, and an overall $2.1 million shortfall as a result of the revenue limits called for in Gov. Scott Walker's biennial state budget. Under the district’s proposed budget, which was unanimously approved for publication at a June 8 meeting, taxes would drop $42 per household, with an overall levy decrease of $273,904 since last year. At the same time, the …
Thursday, June 30, 2011
State Rep. Sandy Pasch offers her views on the recently enacted state budget.
Our state budget is a moral document that represents the blueprint for Wisconsin’s shared vision as a state. However, with a simple pen stroke on Sunday, June 26, Governor Scott Walker signed off on a radical reversal of our state’s values and priorities by approving a budget that shifts billions of dollars from public education, healthcare, and local services to fund handouts for special interests and tax breaks for big corporations. This budget slashes aid to public schools by nearly $1.6 billion, while dramatically expanding taxpayer support for unaccountable, unproven voucher schools. It also cuts funding to the UW System by $250 million and reduces aid to our technical colleges by roughly 30 percent. It passes the buck to our local …
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Administrators, support staff won't see pay hikes in 2011-12 school year, Whitefish Bay School Board decides.
The Whitefish Bay School Board approved a salary freeze for administrators, support staff and other non-union employees at a special meeting Wednesday night. The 25 employees are also subject to the 5.8 percent pension contribution mandated under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill. Unionized teachers are also subject to the pension contribution requirement, but are still able to bargain salary increases up to the consumer price index, which has yet to be handed down by state officials. Whitefish Bay Superintendent Mary Gavigan said the employees affected by the action have been notified, and noted that the salary freeze has been discussed throughout the district’s budget process. “This is not something I would endorse repetitively year…
Friday, May 13, 2011
Pasch and others at Shorewood forum say cuts will hit low-income residents the hardest.
A grim picture was painted Thursday night as more than 100 people packed Kingo Lutheran Church for a forum on the effects of Gov. Scott Walker's state budget on women, children and families. A group of panelists led by state Rep. Sandy Pasch (D-Whitefish Bay) and moderated by former Democratic Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, one by one picked apart the proposed 2011-13 budget bill, describing it as a devastating measure for women and their families. “There is a lot of meanness in this budget,” Pasch said. The forum focused on slashes to funding of women's health care and the deep cuts to education proposed in the budget. "When I look at all of it, I see one big disaster," said 9to5 Milwaukee spokesperson Torrie Moffett. "All around the board, it …
Jory Pradjinski
3:02 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
The "silver spoon" kid trying to do something other than running dad's business activities. The guy's a joke and it will be amazing if the people who voted him in ever wake up and realize reality. more ›