Who hired Kelly Rindfleisch to work in Scott Walker’s County Executive office?

Among the revelations that came out of the multiple felony charges filed against former Scott Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch was the assertion by Tom Nardelli, then-Milwaukee County Executive Walker’s chief of staff, that he didn’t even know Rindfleisch was hired to work in Walker’s office or for what reason she…

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South Korea Gets It!

Yesterday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel featured a front page article on a South Korean who is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Jae “Jim” Park received one of South Korea’s highest honors for his work reclaiming polluted waterways in his home nation. An amazing and worthwhile endeavor…

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The Private Sector is ALWAYS Better!

Except when it isn’t. Milwaukee taxpayers are about to get some answers about why City Hall is cracking and crumbling in some spots.The damage happened a year ago after the city spent $75 million on a renovation project. “Millions of dollars were spent to get it right, and unfortunately, it…

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Walker wins cartoonish lawsuit, protecting Wisconsin electorate from the likes of Bugs Bunny

It was a crushing defeat for Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse on Thursday at the Waukesha County Courthouse, as the Friends of Scott Walker successfully sued in order to ensure that those characters would not steal our recall process. Attorney Jeremy Levinson called the day’s events “political theatre”, an apt…

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Inconvenient Keynesian Truths

When you’re right, you’re right.

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Searching for Jobs in All the Wrong Places!

A list of bills that Governor Walker signed this week.  I wonder how many were designed to create jobs?  Let’s look and see!

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When Ideology Trumps Fiscal Common Sense

Scott Walker’s enthrallment to the construction industry (to the tune of more than $1.2 million over the years) has now cost the state millions in federal dollars that would have been available to deliver needed (and mandatory) upgrades to the Hiawatha Line.  Wisconsin is one of the states which contributes…

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What to Cut?

The elephant in the Federal Budget room.

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State Pays $27,027 per Job for Ruud Expansion

In a plan sure to be touted by the Walker administration as a “win,” the state has “convinced” Ruud Lighting to build a facility in Racine.  By “convinced” I mean “bribed.”

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Wississippi Might be too Generous

The latest “special jobs session” where the Governor promised a “laser focus on jobs” which ended last night produced a total of 0.0 bills pertaining to jobs. Instead they took up such important bills as these: * Students Test Scores can now be used to fire and discipline teachers. *…

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