By Dan Knodl Last week, Democrats in the state legislature sent a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Administration decrying the government’s Capitol access policy. The department, following its statutory duty to administer and set rules for access and use of state buildings, recently clarified the long-standing permitting process that is triggered whenever an individual…
Brian Sikman
$100 Grand a year for Union Bullying
By Brian Sikma John Spiegelhoff is a union boss with AFSCME Council 40 in northern Wisconsin. Spiegelhoff regularly appears in the news commenting about various issues that impact union members in the area represented by his union. Since the passage of collective bargaining reform in 2011, he has publicly championed the recall of State Senator…
Aaron Carter
What Does the United Nations Cost Taxpayers???
By Aaron Cantor I have written from time to time about our role as a member of this useless organization, but unfortunately, we are still knee deep in it, however propriety restrains me from stating what we are knee deep in. There was some talk a year or two ago that they were considering moving…
Dan Knodl
Republicans and Democrats: A Study in Contrasts
By Dan Knodl Jobs, jobs, jobs. On this, Republicans and Democrats agree – to get Wisconsin moving, we need more people in Wisconsin working. But how to get people working – or to use a more popular phrase, how to create jobs – on this, Republicans and Democrats have very different answers. Republicans believe that…
General
Wisconsin Tea Party Leaders React to Mining Debacle
(Eagle River, WI) – Few examples illustrate as clearly as the GTac mining debacle why citizens across the state of Wisconsin now claim allegiance to the Tea Party Movement. So many of the problems with which we take profound issue have been on prominent display in recent daysnot least, holding industry hostage to excessive taxation…
Paul Driessen
That jobs thing sure didn’t last long
Obama rejects Keystone XL jobs, promotes more wind and solar subsidies. What to do now? By Paul Driessen President Obama “is focused like a laser on putting people back to work,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall – echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who “can’t wait” for Congress…