Day: December 21, 2013

From my email inbox: MADISON – State Representatives Chris Taylor (D-Madison), Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) and Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) announced today they will introduce a bill to reinstate the collective bargaining rights Governor Walker and legislative Republicans stripped from public workers last legislative session. “I helped implement collective bargaining in…

After the hostilities and arrests and mistreatment of Wisconsin citizens under the dome in the Capitol Rotunda this past year…over citizens exercising their Constitutional rights to free speech and free association, whoda thunk that the Governor was such a protector of the right to Free Speech. I bet it’s a…

It’s been out of the news for a week or so now…but the US and Afghanistan finally completed negotiations on the continued presence of US troops in Afghanistan past the official end of American participation in hostilities at the end of 2014. I don’t think I need to recap all…

It’s time that I addressed my thoughts on the Minimum Wage and the Cost of Labor. The first term is getting plenty of press at the national and local levels sometimes including a Living Wage…but the Cost of Labor for the most part is being overlooked or given extremely short…

Last week, Gov. Scott Walker said he is interested in the possibility of eliminating Wisconsin’s state income tax and raising the sales tax to make up for the lost revenue. As noted by the Wisconsin Budget Project, eliminating the state income tax and raising the sales tax would result in…

From my email inbox comes news that Dan Bohrod, a Budget Analyst for the City of Madison, will run for State Treasurer in 2014. Stressing the need for a “reimagining” of the Constitutional Office of State Treasurer rather than its elimination, municipal budget analyst Dan Bohrod today announced that he…