Category: Government Waste

As Ed noted a few days ago Democratic Gov. Tony Evers sent a letter to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald – both Republicans – inviting each of them to meet to discuss the state’s response to COVID-19. In his letter Gov. Evers noted it…

Throughout the history of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wisconsin, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Leader Robin Vos have been very vocal in their opposition to the various attempts by Governor Tony Evers to get the pandemic under control. And ironically, yesterday as the president announced that he had…

With all of the brouhaha around the United States Postal Service and the effects on mail in ballots for the coming election, there are a number of other impacts being overlooked. Of course the side effects are the collateral damage on e-commerce in general and maybe Amazon in particular. But…

The problem with Wisconsin’s unemployment system rests in the late 20th Century technology that the state is saddled with because the legislature hasn’t the will to spend the money on an upgrade. So giving the states alternative methods? Still requires vast amounts of time and effort to build into the…

As local newspapers shrink and eventually die under the onslaught of the internet and internet advertising venues, their often grand and centrally located headquarter offices outlive their usefulness. This is exactly what has happened with the offices of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and they are moving from the beautiful art…

This is an absurd situation on top of an absurd situation. The nation should have the COVID-19 pandemic under control like most of our allies do. But we don’t. And now while the first wave flares up out of control again we are again hearing warnings that the nation is…

As many of you have probably seen or read, today’s New York Times has a partial list of Americans who have died after contracting COVID-19…under the headline: An Incalculable Loss. The national death toll is for all practical purposes at 100,000 now. For an interactive view of this loss and…

And no one is totally sure why. A combination of luck, rural life, lack of testing, or asymptomatic residents. It seems most health experts thing that COVID-19 is present statewide…but some rural areas are lucky to not develop a hot spot. This time last week there were six counties…now four….

He was scared and started work on planning for a world pandemic…what happened to the GOP since then? In the summer of 2005, President George W. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, when he began flipping through an advance reading copy of a new book about…

Nope, Zach and I didn’t sell Blogging Blue to some investment banker for billions… Instead, America’s new 1%’ers are at the bottom of the food chain apparently…the 3.3 million Americans who filed for unemployment last week…many of them out of work because of the procrastination and obfuscation of President Donald…