Day: January 4, 2012

Yesterday I posted about the scathing ruling issued a three-judge panel in Federal court. In their ruling (READ IT HERE), the three-judge panel ruled that a group associated with the Democratic Party has a right to information on how Republican lawmakers drew Wisconsin’s new legislative districts following the 2010 census….

Note: The title here is a reference to a popular film and a cultural cliché, not a call for violence. Not that this will stop the trolls … This cycle, I have given money to exactly two US Senate candidates: our own Tammy Baldwin, which should surprise exactly no one,…

2011 – A Year of Living Dangerously Under Scott Walker By Representative Brett Hulsey 2011 will be remembered as the year Gov. Walker and his corporate-backed legislative allies divided our state and attacked the middle class families like never before, and the people fought back. As we reflect on 2011…

By “war on poverty,” I mean war on the poor.  Scott Walker is raising taxes on the backs of Wisconsin’s most vulnerable citizens.

Mary Williams, ( R-Medford, Mine Shill), Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Small Business and the Economy, is taking a page out of the Scott Walker playbook. After a public outcry regarding her failure to hold a hearing on the new mining bill in northern Wisconsin, and the prospect of a hearing beyond…

By now everyone knows about the results in last night’s Iowa Caucuses.  Mitt Romney, four years after scoring 25% of the Iowa vote in 2008, received 25% or the vote last night, and improvement of. . . nothing.  On the surface that should tell everyone that he is not the…

And will be discussed in the History books for years and years… It was the year The "tea party" took over the US in the form of a grassroots anti-government movement and turned most states and much of congress red. That was November 2010, by February 2011, the picture was…

Despite GOP rhetoric to the contrary, the data are indisputable.  Property taxes rose in Dane County for 2012 in nearly all municipalities.

Mitt Romney is a big talker.  He loves to talk about America as a “land of opportunity.”  The trouble is, the data don’t support that anymore.  Oh, they used to.  Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it could be said that each generation would did economically better than every previous…

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