This week’s installment of “That’s Debatable” is a disagreement over the fallout from last week’s Milwaukee-area floods.
Each week, the website WisOpinion.com asks two veterans of Wisconsin policy...
Milwaukee Alderman Bob Bauman has offered an instructive “strategy memo” for political candidates for governor concerning high-speed rail. Bauman’s memo is directed at the two Republican candidates, which should be news in...
Last week, I did lunch with the sophisticated and civilized people.
I knew the Midwest High Speed Rail Association’s ‘brown bag lunch’ at the Milwaukee Public Market last Thursday was going to be interesting when the first...
This week’s installment of “That’s Debatable,” is a disagreement over the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the state’s budget transfer from the Patients Compensation Fund.
Each week, the...
We are now almost a full month into the latest, new state health care plan and the news is not good. The liberals will have to forgive me for the observation that high numbers of enrollment in a government program are not a sign...
The job situation is proving to be such a campaign albatross for Wisconsin Democrats this fall that their candidate for governor is forced to make a big deal when a new firm in Milwaukee hires twenty people.
Twenty jobs? That’s...
Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) released a projection of the state’s structural budget deficit last week and the view was ugly as far as the eye can see. Without any additional spending commitments, the state is...
If you didn’t know of Congressman Paul Ryan’s optimism in the American people’s ability to tackle this country’s fiscal problems, you would think Ryan was the voice of doom and gloom. Last week in response to the latest...
Racine Town Hall with President Obama
President Obama has once again showed that he is in desperate need of a lesson in economic reality. I am referring to the latest instalment of ignoring economic reality by the President...
When part of the façade of the O’Donnell Park parking garage fell away Thursday afternoon, killing one person and injuring two others, some speculated how long it would take before the tragedy was used for political gain by...
