A Small Town Banker’s Perspective Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a three-part series about the current mortgage crisis in America. by Jerry O’Connor, President The National Bank of Waupun January 2010 How can we fix this problem? Residential Mortgages: Go back to the model that provided protection for all parties to a…
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Tommy Lights Up Tea Party Crowd
Some For, Some Against by Ken Van Doren Madison, WI – “The Tea Party movement is for real,” said former WI governor Tommy Thompson to the loudest cheers of the event, and then proceeded to castigate Democrats for their spendthrift ways. Thompson, who later in his speech announced he would not be a candidate for…
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The Energy Advocate
Conservation Let us review the main reason why conservation and high efficiency— which are meritorious goals—cannot solve any hypothetical energy crisis. If there is a finite supply of energy, it will eventually run out no matter how frugal we are. If the supply would last 25 years at current rates of consumption, it would last…
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What is Impeachment? by Theresa Gamble With all the buzz around Washington D.C. these past few months, the word impeachment has been thrown around often enough that it got me wondering: how does an elected official get impeached from office? Which also brought up the questions of: Have any presidents been impeached; does impeachment remove…
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Interview with Ed Thompson
Interview with Ed Thompson by Rick Braun Ed Thompson is running for the Wisconsin State Senate as a Republican in the 31st Senate district. In Wisconsin, the Thompson name carries extra clout, as he is the brother of former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson. In 2002, Ed Thompson made his own run for governor of Wisconsin,…
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Mitch Daniels on State Employee HSAS Fortunately, Washington is only a teensy part of America, and once you get out of the Beltway things make more sense. Take, for instance, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. He wrote a wonderful article in The Wall Street Journal about Indiana’s experience in providing HSAs to state employees. Unlike the…