Day: July 8, 2015

The South Carolina legislature is currently discussing the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from their Capitol grounds. To me, the fact that it is even a question over 150 years after the Civil War ended is astonishing. In the most basic sense, the Civil War was fought because the…

I haven’t had time to review all of this…and some of it was changed by the Senate…but most of this is hateful or spiteful…and none of it is budgetary. A number of posts here and around the blogosphere plus the major media has covered a point or two. But if…

This Facebook post by Emily Mills sums up how I feel about the absolutely awful biennial state budget Republicans are working to pass. Far as I can tell, the entire proposed Wisconsin budget is a steaming pile of garbage. But the tactic by the Republicans… Posted by Emily Mills on Wednesday,…

Back when he was a candidate for governor in 2010, Scott Walker promised to “strip policy and pork projects from the state budget,” but not long after he was elected governor Walker broke that promise in a big way. In fact, every biennial state budget proposed by Gov. Walker and…

Last week I wrote a post wondering which Republican lawmaker(s) wanted the sweeping changes to Wisconsin’s open records laws, changes that would essentially gut those laws, and it looks like we know know for sure that Gov. Scott Walker was absolutely involved in proposing changes to gut Wisconsin’s open records…