Day: February 21, 2015

During the 2012 gubernatorial recall election the Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative ran a story alleging Gov. Scott Walker fathered a child in the late 1980s while he was still a student at Marquette University. Bernadette Gillick was a college freshman in 1988 when she first met Scott Walker. It was…

The proponents of Right to Work (at your co-workers expense) legislation continually chant that it’s about freedom for workers…despite union representation being voted on by a majority of their co-workers…the individual should be able to opt out of that. But we all know it’s about union busting. And so does…

The Wisconsin State Legislature is calling an extraordinary session next week to apparently fend off a statewide crisis. Something called Right To Work (at the expense of your co-workers) legislation demands that it be passed…oh…no…wait. This is an emergency? Isn’t that what extraordinary sessions are for? Here is a primer…

This was reported in dozens of media outlets around the state this past week, but I didn’t see anything in the Milwaukee media…what’s up with that? If any of our perceptive readers saw something locally, I’d appreciate a link. But Governor Walker is proposing paying state employees $2,000 if they…

This is a must-read. I’m as appalled as anyone by silly work rules and $400,000 stagehands, or teachers’ unions shielding the incompetent. But unions also lobby for programs like universal prekindergarten that help create broad-based prosperity. They are pushing for a higher national minimum wage, even though that would directly…

According to a new report by Marquette University economist Abdur Chowdhury, so-called “right to work” (wage theft) legislation will not benefit Wisconsin’s economy. Here’s a snippet from the WUWM report. GOP Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald announced today that the state Senate will hold an extraordinary session next week to…