The Milwaukee County budget process for 2010 is officially finished, as the County Board of Supervisors voted on Wednesday to override 21 of Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker’s 34 vetoes of the 2010 budget. The board’s veto overrides will increase the property tax levy by $5.6 million, which equates [...]
What the evidence suggests is that the economic situation in [...]
Protests turn violent again. I'm sure Capper will blame this on Scott Walker even though it happened in Florida.
' [...]The final results are in and the 2010 Milwaukee County budget is done. There are only two words for it: Epic FAIL.
As I have pointed out numerous times during the budget process, Scott Walker’s proposed budget was a fraudulent document that should never have been accepted. It was based on [...]
This will be an ongoing post for the rest of the day as the County Board votes on Scott Walker’s vetoes.
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[...]Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker issued on Monday 35 line-item vetoes that, taken together, more-than-fully reverse the County Board’s decisions to raise the property tax levy 3.8% and make county government even less efficient. The Board will be meeting at 1:30 pm today at the County Courthouse (901 N. [...]
If you asked readers of Marketplace, most of them would say their number one business expense is employee costs.
So if you believe that state spending is too high, how do you reduce state spending? The Daily Reporter’s Matt Pommer reports:
Republican gubernatorial front-runner Scott Walker is vowing to [...]
There was a touching story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the past weekend. The story was about a couple that was going to get married, but due to Scott Walker’s furlough days, the clerk’s office was closed and the groom was not able to get their marriage license.
…but isn’t adding parking meters to the lakefront that would raise $450,000 next year for the County government really a tax by another name?
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