Tag: James Rowen

Over at The Political Environment, James Rowen has a great piece noting the County Board’s decision to spend even more taxpayer money on the Estabrook Park dam, which many residents believe should be torn down. That sound of water running surrounding the Milwaukee County Board’s decision preserving the broken obstruction…

As reported by the CapTimes, all four Democrats on the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance joined six Assembly Republicans in voting to pull out the state’s credit card and charge $350 million for road projects throughout Wisconsin. The four Democrats who voted with Republicans to pull out the state’s credit…

Yesterday Gov. Scott Walker unveiled his 2015-17 Executive Budget. At the time I shared my thoughts on Gov. Walker’s budget, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t share James Rowen’s excellent take on Gov. Walker’s “chaos budget.” Ending land acquisition for public recreation for more than a decade. Wiping out…

This is brilliant! Here’s what’s facing the righty bench as it starts to take back the country: * A surging economy, reports The Washington Post today. The U.S. economy grew at its fastest rate in more than a decade between the months of July through September, according to government data released Tuesday morning,…

As usual, James Rowen is right on point. Is this reality about who knew what, when and with whom, or: When the dust settled, one emailer is now Governor, the other’s a convicted felon. As Milwaukee County Executive, Scott Walker was on the secret email system that has earned his…