Governor Jim Doyle has declared all 72 counties in Wisconsin in a state of emergency*. It turns out the state of emergency has nothing to do with the destruction to Wisconsin’s economy inflicted by the Democrats, but has everything to do with the snowfall.
I blame global warming.
(*Okay, I originally wrote, “disaster area.” I [...]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article covering the failure of the state legislature to bring the state’s tax code into line with the federal government’s tax law when it comes to the conversion of your IRA to a Roth IRA:
The new federal rules unleashed a barrage of advertising from financial service firms and a [...]

Guess what? Wisconsin is preventing you from taking advantage of a change in federal law making converting from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA easier. What’s worse, Wisconsin is the only state doing it.
Unlike the rest of the country, Wisconsin law did not change with the federal law. People trying to take advantage [...]

It’s press releases like these that must make Team Barrett nervous about the abilities of Mike Tate as head of the Democratic Party:
Wisconsin tax burdens have dropped to, at, and below the national average thanks to Governor Doyle and our Democratic leadership. Today, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that since being one of the dismal [...]

Tim John, owner of Blue Mound Graphics in Oconomowoc, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor. John is of the Miller family of Miller Brewing and is the author of The Miller Beer Barons, a book about the history of Miller Brewing.
In the category of, “It’s a small world,” John played football for [...]

Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate took a moment from his busy schedule of talking to Democratic candidates for governor to suggest Republican Congressmen Tom Petri and Paul Ryan might be “out of touch” with their constituents.
Last November voters in the 1st and 6th Congressional Districts voted to change the direction that the United States was [...]

What a great time to be Jared Christiansen.
I know I’m looking forward to the debates next fall.

Gore visit comes as Dems gear up for greenhouse-gas bill
Hot air in the fall breeze
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.)
It was cold and rainy the other day. The forecast called for the upper 30s for the temperature. This is either the [...]

State Representative Steve Nass called for the resignation of State Representative Jeff Wood following Wood’s fourth arrest for driving under the influence. If Wood does not resign, Nass will pursue Wood’s expulsion from the Assembly.
Dear Representative Wood:
The Wisconsin Constitution and the people of this great state place a tremendous level of power in the [...]

Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Sep 24, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10A
Hard at work
Legislature busy with secondary issues
The economy is in the tank. Wisconsin has lost 140,000 jobs since the recession began and unemployment is over 8.4 percent. The state treasurer’s office is a disaster area. The state crime lab can’t find 12,000 DNA samples from convicts. [...]