Nonfiscal budget items draw flak

Published: May 17, 2013
Tags: budget, Gov. Scott Walker, Nonfiscal budget items

Some campaign promises build in a bit of wiggle room. The one made by candidate for governor Scott Walker to “strip policy and pork projects from the state budget” did not.

Editorial: Good for Abele, bad for public

Published: May 17, 2013
Tags: Chris Abele, Joe Sanfelippo, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee County board, Milwaukee County executive, Scott Walker

The seven people who work in Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele’s office should be grateful.

View from around the state: GOP centralizing power at state level

Published: May 14, 2013
Tags: Milwaukee County board

The Legislature seems intent on expanding the reach of state government with the city of Milwaukee paying the price for reasons we’re not sure of, other than legislators must believe they can do a better job than the Milwaukee City Council or the Milwaukee County Board.

Editorial cartoon: Roofer bill

Published: May 10, 2013
Tags: roofers

Contractors, it’s time to put that house in order

Published: May 10, 2013

What a difference a year makes. Invitations to bid are flying. Estimators are in short supply. The phones are ringing, and backlogs are sizes we have not seen since fall 2008.

UW brass caught in crosshairs

Published: May 10, 2013
Tags: Bill Lueders, NLRB

It’s hard not to feel a bit sorry for Rebecca Blank, incoming chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editorial: County Board needs new leadership

Published: May 3, 2013
Tags: editorial, Joe Sanfelippo, Marina Dimitrijevic, Milwaukee County board

Marina Dimitrijevic added yet another misstep to her clumsy tenure as Milwaukee County Board chairwoman when she walked into the Tuesday hearing 32 minutes late.

Compromise key to legacy Obama desires

Published: May 3, 2013
Tags: Keystone XL pipeline, Obama

He wants to take on the expensive Democratic sacred cows of Social Security and Medicare. He has hinted that he might disappoint environmentalists by letting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline be built.

How ‘not in my backyard’ became a community touchstone

Published: April 26, 2013
Tags: Jane Graham Jennings, The Women's Community Inc.

The tracks of Jane Graham Jennings’ tears run through the city of Wausau.

Film, book tell of state uprising

Published: April 26, 2013
Tags: Bill Lueders, Film, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

As the dust settles on the epic battles over collective bargaining for public workers in Wisconsin, two new major works aim to put these events into perspective.