Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has suddenly found religion. It’s a miracle, I tell you, a miracle.
For the first time since he was elected, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is trying to craft a city budget that doesn’t raise either property taxes or major user fees – right in the middle of his campaign for governor.
Barrett [...]
In a 5-2 decision this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dealt the state budget a $200 million blow by declaring the raid on the medical malpractice fund unconstitutional. Reaction from the MacIver Institute:
The ruling, which Capitol observers say is a stunning rebuke of the Doyle Administration’s budgeting practices, reversed a lower court ruling and [...]
I’m a believer in rough-and-tumble primary election campaigns. I not only find primary elections where everyone is nice to each other dull but they’re also unproductive. How is the voter to know for whom to vote if neither candidate draws a contrast? So, by all means, lets have a few raised voices [...]
Publication: Waukesha Freeman (Conley);
Date: Jul 1, 2010;
Section: Opinion;
Page: 8A
A black mark for the green economy
Bucyrus affair shows costs of environmental rules
Last Thursday when the U.S. Export-Import Bank denied a loan guarantee to Reliance Power Ltd. in India, Wisconsinites got an instant lesson of what Democrats really think an environment-friendly economic future should look like.
The loan [...]
Dear President Obama:
On behalf of the people of Wisconsin, I respectfully ask you to reverse the environmental policies enacted by your administration that are directly killing jobs in our state.
Right now, 300 Wisconsin jobs at Bucyrus International are in jeopardy because of radical environmental policies created by your administration. Today, you have [...]
Former Congressman Mark Neumann isn’t above using a tragedy to tar and feather his opponent in the Republican primary for governor before the facts are known. I’m just going to put the two statements up and you decide who’s showing a bit of class.
STATEMENT FROM MARK NEUMANN
WAUKESHA, Wis. – June 25, 2010 – “First [...]
I bet Democrats were thrilled Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett managed to find his way to Madison. (Okay, Middleton.) After all, if on the odd chance the mayor does manage to get elected as governor, so much of state government may be following Barrett back to Milwaukee.
In Colorado, the Obama Administration offered a job to Andrew Romanoff to keep him out of the Senate race. In Pennsylvania, we’re still trying to answer the questions regarding what exactly was offered to Joe Sestak. Now the attention has turned to New York and Steve Israel’s decision not to run for Senate [...]
Last night I posted the winners of the MacIver Institute’s first ever End of the Legislative Session awards.
Here were my nominees:
Taxpayer Hero – Has to be State Representative Leah Vukmir, for stopping the RTA with a timely amendment.
Taxpayer Villain – State Representative Jeff Wood. He’s going to jail, the legislature [...]
Our friend Jessica McBride called for calmer voices in the discussion of Waukesha’s water future in her column for Saturday’s Waukesha Freeman.
First, a week ago, eight Milwaukee aldermen penned Scrima a letter in the socalled name of “regional cooperation.” What it really translated to was: You better do it our way or else we [...]
