Category: Environment

An interesting push for federalism from an anti-federalism party…

Wisconsin legislators are introducing three bills this fall that will help struggling farmers. The bills take direct aim at a number of financial stumbling blocks that farmers face and are well warranted. But while helping, they are simply treating the symptoms and not curing the disease. Let’s look at the…

Yes indeed he did…and apparently he lied about why he missed it as well. It was the climate change meeting and he apparently just flat out didn’t want to attend it. On Monday, before the close of the G7 meetings in France, the heads of those nations gathered to talk…

Of course most of Wisconsin already knows that but during his visit to Milwaukee in one of his now ‘patented’ rallies, President Donald Trump exclaimed that they were! President Donald Trump raised $3 million in Wisconsin cash on Friday touring Milwaukee to promote a new trade deal he says will…

why is the federal government spending millions on flood prevention and abatement at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida? Coincidence? I think not.

Solar power is one of the major renewable energy sources being touted and rapidly developed for replacing carbon based power generation systems. Yes, by all means, once the panels are built, they seem to be carbon neutral. A good thing…but let’s not pretend that solar power is benign. Just recently…

This is a typical feel good story from Jim Stingl of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. And it looks like things will eventually go well for this family…but it has a dire dangerous undertone if this child were to get ‘something’ from an un-vaccinated individual. From the beginning, two things became…

For those of you not following another dirty water scandal in northeast Wisconsin, Tyco Fire Products, (a division of Johnson Controls International of Glendale WI) determined that harmful chemicals that they manufacture have leeched from their site into neighboring wells. And after a lot of negative publicity and pressure from…

The WMC (aka Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Foundation) is a conservative and very successful business lobbying group who have found ready accomplices in former Governor Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald over the past several years. Despite supporting the various business tax cuts provided…

This post will be a bit different than my usual rant. But after years of talking about it and not getting any concessions from the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, the Milwaukee Symphony is preparing their own home in the old Grand Theater on Wisconsin Avenue. With the loss…