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Salus populi suprema lex esto, indeed. You’d normally associate tossing piles of paper to the floor with a fit of peevishness, but in the Missouri House of Representatives, it’s how they mark the end of session. The Wisconsin Assembly has come to the end of many exhausting sessions over the years, still it’s hard to imagine members celebrating by making a mess for somebody else to clean up. Continue reading
Late Friday afternoons are the equivalent of the witching hour around here. One never knows quite what to expect in the ol’ e-mail inbox. Continue reading
Every once in awhile at the state Capitol, some halfhearted discussion takes place about ending the practice of inserting policy items into the state budget bill. Nothing ever comes of it because there are so many swell ideas out there that lawmakers just can’t resist the temptation to insert some of their favorites into the spending plan. Continue reading
It’s a media crush on the 4th floor of the Capitol today, as the Joint Legislative Audit Committee holds an informational audit on the recent audit of the Wisconsin Development Corporation. Continue reading
Today’s executive session on Senate Bill 95 in the Senate Election and Urban Affairs Committee was illustrative of how a majority party can operate, if it chooses to. Continue reading
Alex Holland is one of the co-founders of BIG – the Bipartisan Issues Group – which pulled off the coup of getting Senator Ron Johnson and Representative Mark Pocan in the same room Thursday night. Continue reading
Hayward, at the epicenter of our freakish May snowstorm, has recieved 16 inches of snow so far. I called my old buddy Gary Hessel at WRLS to gauge the mood. They’re trying to laugh, because the alternative . . . Continue reading
Back in February (a month that looked a lot like early May in some parts of Wisconsin), I posted that Milwaukee had made the Forbes magazine list of America’s Most Miserable Cities, and how I thought that was absolute twaddle. Turns out I was right.
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The Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Issues – chaired by Republican state Senator Dale Schultz – held an informational hearing today on the “fiscal and economic impact of AB 40 on rural schools and rural tax payers.” Continue reading
Bob Edgar, national president and CEO of Common Cause, says it’s pretty easy to illustrate the fallout, from 2010′s Citizens United ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. “During a presidential campaign here in Wisconsin, do you like the fact that every time you turn on your television there are ten negative commercials?” Continue reading
