What’s in your mutual funds? How about the state government’s hand?
Congratulations Wisconsin! Once again, our state is the big red one, first place in socking it to people trying to save for retirement.
In the last biennial budget, Governor Doyle requested the state legislature to approve increasing the fees paid by mutual fund companies selling [...]
The LaCrosse Tribune listed the economic woes the state legislature will be confronting in the coming year:
Given that it’s an election year, and the Legislature is fresh off raising taxes more than $5 billion in 2009, Republicans say they expect Democrats to cast a low profile.
“The next six months are going to be nothing more [...]
The MacIver Institute discovered the state budget is seriously out of whack and warns that a budget adjustment may be coming. Given that both houses of the legislature are controlled by the Democrats, and we still have a Democratic governor, it’s unlikely they will be cutting spending.
In an exclusive interview with the MacIver Institute [...]
(This appeared in the Waukesha Freeman 12/31/09)
Education funding dominated decade
If we were to look for one issue that has dominated Wisconsin politics for much of the decade, education would have to be near the top of the list. How we fund it and how we provide it are the issues that dominate election after [...]
The nine people and events in 2009 that most shaped Waukesha and Wisconsin.
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Governor Jim Doyle’s announcement that he will not seek re-election.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett getting attacked outside State Fair turns him into a hero.
State Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson wins re-election.
Passage of a state budget built largely upon deferred expenses, raids on segregated [...]
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 [...]
Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley);
Date:Oct 15, 2009;
Section:Opinion;
Page Number:10A
Republican seeks to take Capitol step
Davis has ideas for lt. gov. office
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.)
We don’t often think of the lieutenant governor in Wisconsin. Let’s face it. In our current form of government, [...]
The MacIver Institute has their first look at the effect of the stimulus bill in Wisconsin:
$1.9 billion – ARRA money awarded to Wisconsin so far.
$680 million – Wisconsin ARRA expenditures during the first reporting quarter.
8,284 – the number of full-time jobs saved or created to date.
$82,085.95 – the cost of each job saved or created.
6,100 [...]
Publication:Waukesha Freeman (Conley); Date:Aug 20, 2009; Section:Opinion; Page Number:10A
Doyle seemed to be gearing up for re-election bid
(James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://wigdersonlibrarypub.blogspot.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.)
I am surrounded by people who tell me, “Of course. I knew Gov. Doyle would never run for reelection.” They [...]
D’oh! To quote the philosopher Colonel Potter, “Some men are born to garbage, some men have it thrust upon them.” Here’s a case where one state representative voted for the new garbage tipping fee increase (255%) forgetting he was opposed to it.Always rough when your next opponent can just run your commercials against you.
Update! [...]
