Also in the running: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. We are essentially in an arms race, not only with our border states" but with the country and world, Rep. Jason Sheppard, a Republican from Lambertville in Monroe County, said on the House floor before voting in favor of the bills.
"If we do not equip our state organizations with the consistent and meaningful tools to attract new industry here to create jobs, we'll always be at a disadvantage," said Sheppard, who has a background as a commercial real estate agent.
Hey, let's hear another round of 'lock her up'. Six months after Trump’s inauguration, with a daily war raging over the president’s own alleged deceptions and major campaign promises going unfulfilled, a perceptible shift in mood has set in among Trump voters interviewed for an ongoing Guardian series in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
The thrill of victory, for many Trump backers, has been replaced by something closer to disgust – the kind of disgust that makes people turn off the news.
They still back the president. But they express sharp resentment of the president’s perceived enemies in the media and official Washington, and describe fatigue from defending a political figure who does not always make it easy. In a striking number of interviews, the conversation eventually turns to the candidate Trump beat eight months ago – Clinton – whose alleged trespasses are brandished to answer questions about Trump’s alleged trespasses.
The hearing was held by the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage.
Assembly Bill 411 would all but prevent warden enforcement on the 82% of Wisconsin land that is in private ownership.
"Just a disaster waiting to happen," said Al Shook of Oconomowoc, one of 60 members of the public who testified or registered in opposition to the bill. Eleven were in support.
Mike Arrowood of Fond du Lac, representing the Winnebagoland Conservation Alliance, called AB 411 a "poacher's dream."
But inside my classrooms at Colorado Mesa University (a place Hessler calls a “bright spot” in his recent, expert analysis of Trump’s rural America), I feel a fragile potential for more. My husband, a new high school math teacher and soccer coach in the valley, feels it too. It’s why we’re here, and why we know our young people are the first and best hope to breathe life into a struggling community.
Pontotoc County is #2 on at most risk to offshoring list, behind Aleutians East Borough in Alaska. "[T]here is a great degree of regional variation in the risk of job losses due to offshoring and automation. There are clear clusters of high risk in the industrialized Midwest and in several urban places across the country," the report says. "Industrial structure, educational attainment and the degree of rurality all affect the potential employment risk of increased automation and trade-related job losses."
