Day: May 15, 2015

I’ll admit I appreciate Republican State Rep. Rob Brooks’ honesty in discussing how awful the state budget proposed by Republicans really is. “We may have a crap budget, but we’re going to make it better,” state Rep. Rob Brooks (R-Saukville) said on the Assembly floor Wednesday. While Rep. Brooks thinks…

Here’s BB King performing “The Thrill is Gone” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1993.

Well isn’t this something?!?!? House Republicans voted Wednesday to chop about a fifth of Amtrak’s budget, less than a day after a deadly train crash that Democrats pointed to as a prime example of the dangers of shortchanging the nation’s transportation needs. They also rebuffed Democrats’ attempts to provide money…