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Biden RACINE — By beefing up the Internal Revenue Services to go after billionaires who aren’t paying their share of taxes through loopholes and other methods of dubious legality, President Joe Biden aims to fund massive new spending plans to help the nation see the light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Steil But U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., and other Republicans aren’t buying it: They don’t think it’ll be possible to recoup as much as $6 trillion in new spending in 2021 the Biden administration is considering in 2021 alone. “I look at what the Bide...

RACINE — For the second time this winter season, the leader of Racine’s Department of Public Works was before the Finance and Personnel Committee to request additional funds for snow removal. Part of the issue was all the snow that fell on Racine this year, about double the yearly norm. But the larger issue was the lack of city personnel to manage it all — necessitating the hiring of outside contractors. Rooney John Rooney, the commissioner of public works, requested $35,000 be moved from the contingency fund to pay for contractors to remove snow and ice from targeted city prop...