Category: mi perspectives

Debating Education and the Bailout

Each week, the Website WisOpinion.com asks our own Brian Fraley to debate Scot Ross from One Wisconsin Now in an exchange of emails. The topics are chosen by the two participants and the views expressed reflect their own personal...

Beyond the Spin, State Employment Numbers Dismal

Next vacation, I’ll tour government offices… I did my part for the Wisconsin economy. Last week the Lovely Doreen from Waukesha and I ventured to the Wisconsin Dells with our children, doing our part to pump dollars into...

MPS’ Misplaced Priorities

Sigh. The ‘leaders’ at Milwaukee Public Schools are at it again. The Milwaukee Public Schools Committee on Legislation, Rules and Policies meets Thursday. The agenda includes consideration of a resolution by board...

Son of a Stimulus!

Hold onto your wallets, folks. While the public focuses their attention on the man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the man-made disaster of profligate government spending across the country is getting worse. At the MacIver...

UW System Regents Hike Tuition, Again

Congratulations parents. Your child has just finished another semester of college in the University of Wisconsin System. Your kid just sold this semester’s textbooks for beer money. Now you get to think about how to pay for...

Rail Would Not Do Much to Ease Highway Traffic

Supporters of passenger rail say it will reduce dangerous traffic congestion in Southern Wisconsin. Transit Now states “Traffic is choking neighborhoods and business districts.  There is not enough land to build roads and...

Vrakas, Waukesha County Fight to End Raids on State Transportation Fund

Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas said people are fed up with the state government raiding the transportation fund to spend money on operating expenses. “We are violating the faith and trust of the people who pay the gas...

MPS Votes Matter to Every Wisconsinite

So tonight is the big night for the Milwaukee Public Schools Board of Directors. MPS is currently working through a $33 million budget deficit from last year, and Superintendent William Andrekopoulos has proposed cutting as many...

Trial Lawyers Celebrate June 1st as Wisconsin Consumers Pay More

Like many of you this last weekend, I spent much of it catching up on the “to do” list. No, it does not include getting a gift for Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. Somehow I was left off the guest list again.   Let’s see: get...

WHEDA Partners with Fannie Mae, Promotes No-Money-Down Lending Scheme

Have they not learned anything? The taxpayer-supported Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority is promoting “no-money-down” home mortgages. Still. Really. As they proclaim in this new radio...

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