by Jane Richey | Oct 24, 2013 | Agenda 21
This is a bad week to work at a coal plant. Wisconsin’s Dairyland Power Cooperative announced it will be closing two coal-fired generating units, partly due to regulatory requirements that make it harder to burn coal. Dairyland will be closing two coal-fired units at...
by Jane Richey | Oct 24, 2013 | Health Care
The leading contractors on the Obama administration’s troubled health insurance website told Congress Thursday that the government failed to thoroughly test the complicated system before it went live. Executives of CGI Federal, which built the federal HealthCare.gov...
by Jane Richey | Oct 24, 2013 | Events
What: VCTPP Monthly Meeting Why: We will be updating on some relavent issues (including info on November 5th election) and may have a local doctor speaking on the things he is experiencing relating the the Affordable Care Act. When: October 26th at 9:00 a.m. (come...
by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Internal Revenue Service paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn’t qualify for them, according to a Treasury report released Tuesday. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families. In his...
by Jane Richey | Oct 22, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional Democrats want Republicans to sign off on $50 billion worth of tax increases to eliminate the sequester’s automatic spending cuts. The next phase of these cuts will take effect Jan. 15, when government funding will drop from $986 billion to $967 billion....
