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Enbridge Line 5 pipeline project a job killer for Wisconsin
Back in December a number of different parties, including the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, environmental organizations, and the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, issued legal challenges to the Enbridge Line 5 expansion project. Recently in these pages Terry McGowan and Kent Miller complained about these challenges and tried to defend the project.
Opinion | Prehn the squatter may mean the end of DNR Board governance
Fred Prehn has brought shame and embarrassment to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He has tarnished a nationally admired reputation for bipartisan environmental protection and natural resource conservation. Prehn should leave the DNR board, the state Senate should confirm his replacement and Wisconsin voters should hold the Republican obstructionists who have facilitated his “seat-squatting” antics accountable in the next election. Prehn’s term on the DNR board expired in May of 2021.
Roger Utnehmer: Excessive - and often secret - campaign contributions have corrupted democracy in Wisconsin
Roger Utnehmer: Excessive — and often secret — campaign contributions have corrupted democracy in Wisconsin iSTOCK The sanitized corruption of big money has tarnished legislative and executive races for decades. Unfortunately, with increasing frequency, it has crept into the courts as well. Wisconsin citizens cannot have confidence in the concept of equal justice when judicial candidates take big money from the very donors who appear before them in court.
Civil Discourse: High Speed Rail Would Have Been Better Bet Than Foxconn
Wisconsin turned down more than $800 million in federal stimulus money in 2010 that would have created high-speed rail corridors between Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison and Minneapolis. Turning down that money will cost Wisconsin far more than it will ever gain from Foxconn. Former Governor Scott Walker made high-speed rail a loser and Foxconn a winner.
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