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Dems fail to remove Green Party candidate from ballot
Kennedy can’t get his name off the ballot
One presidential candidate in Wisconsin wanted to stay on the ballot and one candidate didn’t. One candidate got her way last week and one didn’t.
The Ghost of Richard Nixon: Harris’s price control plan spurs debate
1971 price controls caused shortages, then sent prices skyrocketing
News analysis The last time a president tried price controls in the United States was 1971, when President Richard Nixon imposed a multi-phased wage-and-price control scheme to tamp down runaway inflation, which had then climbed to 5.8 percent.
Highway department facing $9.5M three-year shortfall
If Oneida County sticks with its current approach to funding its highways, the county’s highway department will face a funding shortfall of about $9.5 million for its capital renewal and replacement needs over the next three years.
Zuckerberg: Biden administration pressured Meta to censor
Won’t do it again, Facebook chief promises
In an August 26 letter to U.S. House judiciary committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the chief of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, alleged that the Biden administration pressured Meta and its companies, including Facebook, to censor its users, especially during the pandemic.
County board creates deputy position to help lead new department
On the first day of its existence, the newly formed Oneida County Human Services Department will become Oneida County’s largest government agency — a huge department employing more than 100 people —and this past week the county board of supervisors created a new deputy director position to help the agency’s director hold down the fort.
Oneida County board shoots down mining resolution
But both yes and no votes preserved the status quo
It was a politician’s dream on Tuesday when the Oneida County Board of Supervisors took a vote that didn’t matter how supervisors voted — voting yes yielded the same result as voting no.
Harris unveils plan to fight inflation: Price controls
Democrat to push laws, regs to end ‘gouging’
The Harris for President campaign took aim at lingering inflation this past week, with the campaign announcing that the presumptive Democratic nominee, if elected, would propose the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries.”
Voters defeat both constitutional amendments in another win for Democrats
Wisconsin continued to gallop back toward its historic standing as part of the Democratic Party’s midwestern Blue firewall as Democrats celebrated the defeat by wide margins Tuesday of two major constitutional amendments the party had opposed.
Latest Marquette poll: Harris surges to lead
Harris opens wide 8-point lead among likely voters, with other candidates included
The latest Marquette Law School Poll national survey shows Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris leading the presidential race nationally, with 52 percent of support among of registered voters to 48 percent for former President Donald Trump.
On the ballot Tuesday: Two constitutional amendments
Control of federal monies and appropriations take center stage
One thing Gov. Tony Evers can’t veto is the will of the voters, and that’s why the Republican-controlled state legislature has put two proposed constitutional amendments on next Tuesday’s ballot.