11 Republican bills try to dictate how governor allocates federal pandemic aid. //end headline wrapper ?>Wisconsin State Capitol. File photo by Dave Reid.
The federal government is shipping $3.2 billion in stimulus money to Wisconsin and Gov.
Tony Evers and the Republican-controlled Legislature have dueling visions on how to spend it and who should control the purse strings.
The Republican Legislature began hearings Tuesday on a series of bills, introduced late Friday, that are made up of pieces of an overall attempt to seize control of Wisconsin’s share of the federal $1.9 trillion national American Rescue Plan (ARP) package enacted in March.
In a virtual call filled with peers, teachers and representatives from local and federal governments, Verona Area High School students and their Finnish counterparts pitched ideas last week to solve at least a few of the worldâs problems.
On Tuesday, Dec. 15, VAHS students and those from Otaniemi Upper Secondary School in Espoo, Finland, which is a part of the greater Helsinki capital region, concluded their first five-week Bridge the Pond program. Itâs a new program this year started by the European Parliamentâs Liaison Office in Washington, D.C. where students from both countries spent five weeks working together to come up with solutions to problems impacting both countries.