Scott Walker Fails At Job Creation a Second Time!

First there was the campaign promise to create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin during his first term…didn’t happen during his eight years in office. Then he gave away the farm to Foxconn for 13,000 new jobs. Looking at the news the last few days…ain’t a gonna happen.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Rolled Out!

The other signatories of the TPP rolled it out this month. And guess what? Australia and the Latin American beef producing signatory states will pay a 9% tariff on beef when exporting to signatory nation, Japan. The Japanese tariff on American beef? Something like 38%. Good luck American farmers.

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So Where Is The Organization of American States?

Way back in 1948, the United States and a number of Latin American countries formed the Organization of American States. It acted as a defense pact for the Western Hemisphere and a Cold War deterrent…sort of. But some of its other functions were to provide aid for economic support and…

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Defense Contractor Abandons Milwaukee for the Falls!

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently published an article about a City of Milwaukee defense contractor heading for Menomonee Falls! Defense contractor Leonardo DRS could have developed its new $56 million factory and offices, with more than 400 workers, at Century City Business Park — less than a mile from its…

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West Milwaukee takes page on development from Franklin

While putting the finishing touches on the follow up on issues with the response of Franklin city fathers to proposed new development, an acquaintance shared this link from WTMJ-TV: Concerns raised over new health clinic proposal in West Milwaukee. The very popular and well respected 16th Street Community Health Centers…

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Franklin mayor blasts addition of senior housing

Ok, so I am on one of my old man keep off my grass rants again….sort of! [for those keeping score: millennials: I am out of active politics {for now} except for Blogging Blue and I am retired so if you think you got hot programming chops have at it]…

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Foxconn Water Usage Pegged At 7 Million Gallons Per Day

The City of Racine who supplies water to the Village of Mount Pleasant, is requesting Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources input on increasing their water extraction from Lake Michigan by 7 million gallons per day. The water is intended for use at the Foxconn plant that is being built in…

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The Proposed Reorganization of the Department of Interior.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has already done some serious damage to the environment with his recommendations to shrink several national monuments in the west. His latest idea is a massive reorganization of the Department of the Interior. Although environmentalists, senators and former interior employees question his ability to pull it…

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Why Do We Hate Wetlands So Much?

Through out the negotiations for the Foxconn plant now supposedly destined for Mount Pleasant in Racine County…one of the leading causes of consternation among Wisconsin environmentalists has been the removal of wetland protections from the agreement between the State of Wisconsin and Foxconn. I have mentioned it here and here….

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An Open Letter To WE Energies

As solar and wind power have come closer to mainstream electric generation environments…WE Energies had done everything in it’s power to prevent their growth in Wisconsin (btw: WE has a bank of solar panels on their downtown Milwaukee headquarters). For instance they’ve been trying to prevent private solar installers from…

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