Madison… Today Senator Frank Lasee (R-De Pere) and Representative Dan Knodl (RGermantown) sent a letter to the Unemployment Insurance Advisory Council, co-signed by 25 of their colleagues, asking the council to take up over 30 different reforms to address Wisconsin’s Unemployment Trust Fund solvency and the cumbersome and outdated unemployment laws. “Far too often I…
Lasee's Notes
Lasee’s Notes
Government Owned Land The Federal Government seems to struggle with ways to balance what they spend against what they take in taxes from others. Here is another federal resource that the feds don’t seem to think about when their budget is out of whack. Our Federal Government owns nearly 30% of all the land in…
Ron Arnold
Greedy Green Land Grabbers
“Clean Development Mechanism” schemes drive out African villagers for “carbon offset” profits By Ron Arnold On Sunday, February 28, 2010, armed troops evicted villagers in Uganda’s Mubende district, to make way for a tree plantation. The troops were acting on behalf of a British forestry company that claims it fights global warming. The trees will…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PROJECT
The Week That Was April 13, 2013 Quote of the Week I say that’s also important in giving certain types of government advice. Supposing a senator asked you for advice about whether drilling a hole should be done in his state; and you decide it would be better in some other state. If you don’t…
Craig Rucker
Important Questions for Obama Nominees
Interior, Energy and EPA nominees raise serious questions that need to be addressed By Craig Rucker In his second inaugural address, President Obama pledged to address “the threat of climate change” because no one can avoid “the devastating impact of raging fires, crippling droughts and more powerful storms.” The President had said nothing about climate…
Heartland Institute
The Truth Behind ‘the Truth’ About Common Core
By Christel Swasey I’m calling for a hogwash alert on the recent National Review Online article about Common Core. It’s written without any links or references for its Common Core-promoting claims, and it’s written by two authors whose employers are largely funded by the main funder of all things Common Core: The…