Lawmakers: Time To Cap Sick Pay ‘Golden Health Care Parachutes’
Lawmakers say reforms to a state employee benefits system that includes “golden health care parachutes” for some retirees are long overdue.
Read Moreby M. D. Kittle | Aug 2, 2018
Lawmakers say reforms to a state employee benefits system that includes “golden health care parachutes” for some retirees are long overdue.
Read Moreby M. D. Kittle | Jul 30, 2018
Thanks to Wisconsin’s generous sick leave conversion system, some retirees have banked hundreds of thousands of dollars they can use to pay for post-retirement health insurance premiums in the Wisconsin Group Health Insurance Program.
Read Moreby M. D. Kittle | Jul 24, 2018
There are scores of former government workers earning more in retirement than they did on the job. Some just a few thousand dollars more, others banking two or three times more than their highest salary average.
Read Moreby James Wigderson | Apr 4, 2018
In another election underscoring the enthusiasm gap between Democratic and Republican voters, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Dallet handily defeated her conservative opponent Sauk County Judge Michael Screnock in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Read Moreby M. D. Kittle | Apr 3, 2018
What Dallet has failed to note is that the politically motivated John Doe investigations – which were little more than political spying operations on dozens of Wisconsin right-of-center groups – were declared unconstitutional for a reason.
Read Moreby M. D. Kittle | Mar 31, 2018
While an essential part of state government when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, the treasurer’s office has seen most of its duties and responsibilities shifted to other agencies.
Read Moreby James Wigderson | Mar 28, 2018
The campaign finance statement, written by Voight as the organization’s treasurer, does not include the creation of the organization’s website.
Read Moreby Matt Adamczyk | Mar 27, 2018
You may think that our state government needs the treasurer as an official financial office but, in Wisconsin, the state treasurer simply does not manage financial duties as these have been delegated to other agencies.
Read Moreby James Wigderson | Jan 30, 2018
State Treasurer Matt Adamczyk (R-Wauwatosa) announced today on WISN-AM’s Dan O’Donnell Show that he is running for the 14th state Assembly district to replace state Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield).
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