Evers budget and Republican proposals are miles apart. A compromise won’t be easy. //end headline wrapper ?>Gov. Tony Evers. File photo by Emily Hamer/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
The process of creating a state budget to fund the next two years is underway with a supposed July 1 deadline in state law. It’s often said that budgets are moral documents that lay bare the priorities of the parties crafting them.
In Wisconsin, it’s not as simple as Republicans wanting to cut taxes and Democrats wanting to take care of people’s basic needs. There are cost-savings measures, tax cuts and priorities that each side rejects, while the other side wants them badly.
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The process of creating a state budget to fund the next two years is underway with a supposed July 1 deadline in state law. Itâs often said that budgets are moral documents that lay bare the priorities of the parties crafting them.
In Wisconsin, itâs not as simple as Republicans wanting to cut taxes and Democrats wanting to take care of peopleâs basic needs. There are cost-savings measures, tax cuts and priorities that each side rejects, while the other side wants them badly.
For decades, marijuana flowed in one direction across the U.S.-Mexico border: north.
These days, drug enforcement agents regularly seize specialty strains of retail-quality cannabis grown in the United States being smuggled south.
Widespread legalization in the U.S. is killing Mexico’s marijuana business, and cartel leaders know it. They are increasingly abandoning the crop that was once was their bread and butter and looking elsewhere for profits, producing and exporting drugs including heroin and fentanyl and banking on extortion schemes and fuel theft.
So when Mexico’s tourism secretary this week boldly declared his hopes that Mexico will legalize marijuana for recreational use in an effort to reduce growing violence across the nation, some balked at the notion that marijuana was driving the bloodshed.
With New York’s recent legalization of recreational cannabis, more than 40 percent of Americans now live in states that have embraced marijuana legalization. Oregon has been on the leading edge of drug reform and in November became the first to decriminalize possession of hard drugs. As other states eye similar moves, Stephanie Sy reports on Oregon s early rollout and the obstacles ahead.
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Well, the times, they are a changing.
With New York s recent legalization of recreational cannabis, more than 40 percent of Americans now live in states that have embraced marijuana legalization.
Oregon has been on the leading edge of drug law reform and, in November, became the first to decriminalize possession of hard drugs.