Tag Archives: sequestration

  • Politics control tower

    County Board supervisors protesting likely closure of airport towers

    MILWAUKEE (WITI) — Milwaukee County Board supervisors protested the likely night closing of the airport tower at Mitchell International Airport…

  • Politics control tower

    Eight WI airports could lose control towers due to sequestration

    MILWAUKEE (WITI) — The sequester is about to have another casualty, at airports across the nation. The FAA plans to…

  • News U.S. Capitol Building

    Sequestration Latest: Two days to cuts: What’s Congress doing?

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — We now have only two days left before $85 billion in widely disliked spending cuts start to…

  • Politics President Barack Obama

    President Obama hosts meeting with governors to discuss sequester

    MADISON (WITI) — Gov. Scott Walker took a lead role in the debate over federal spending cuts on Monday, February…

  • Politics President Barack Obama

    Pres. Obama: ‘These cuts do not have to happen’

    (CNN) — In his latest push to pressure Congress before a series of massive, across-the-board forced spending cuts kick in…

  • Politics washington-dc-capitol

    Sequestration deadline looming, WI leaders talk implications here

    MILWAUKEE (WITI) — It is the sequestration standoff: the Friday, March 1st deadline when automatic spending cuts would kick in…

  • News thunderbirds

    Sequestration could affect Thunderbirds at EAA AirVenture

    OSHKOSH (WITI) — The Air Force Thunderbirds are scheduled to appear at EAA this year for the first time ever. But…