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Posted by Ed Heinzelman on August 17, 2010, at 5:30 pm

Sensenbrenner doesn’t support our veterans

Every Sunday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel runs the feature: Congress Following the Vote. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the MJS runs a short explanation of the major legislation in Washington from the previous week with a short synopsis of the bill and the voting record of Wisconsin’s House and Senate delegations. [...]

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Posted by Ed Heinzelman on August 16, 2010, at 7:20 pm

Why are some gulf coast jobs worth more than others?

Since the BP oil spill and the announcment of the administration’s moratorium on drilling in the gulf, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of the moratorium on oil production jobs in the gulf area.

But why are oil jobs more important than the jobs portrayed in the cartoon? [...]

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Posted by Jim on April 9, 2010, at 10:20 am

Glenn Grothman proposes cut in clean energy mandate

State Senator Glenn Grothman, always entertaining, proposes an amendment to the Clean Energy Jobs Act cutting the required percentage of renewable energy use in Wisconsin by 2015, from 10% to 8%. Grothman claims, “the state currently has far more energy supply than energy demand” and the mandate for renewable energy will result in the [...]

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Posted by Zach on February 6, 2010, at 6:35 am

Security and our energy future

The following is an editorial that originally appeared in the February 2, 2010 edition of JSOnline.com:

Our nation is facing one of the biggest threats known to date. Unlike the past, however, this threat comes not from other nations but our dependence on foreign fuels. Moving to clean, homegrown energy and reducing our carbon [...]

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Posted by Zach on August 3, 2009, at 6:16 pm

A Closer Look at Paul Ryan’s Closer Look

The following is a guest blog by Kelly K. Gallaher:

Congressman Paul Ryan has been very busy talking about the health care crisis and touting his plan called “The Patients’ Choice Act”. My local newspaper invited him to write a series of articles to examine the “facts” of current legislation. After reading his article [...]

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