Justified Questions: Why Is UW Public Health Fund Granting Millions To Liberal Groups?
The medical school foundation has also been a funder of liberal policy organizations, many of them lead by political operators in the Democratic Party.
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Matt Kittle
Wisconsin Right To Work Case Tests Prolonged Forced Union Dues
Right to Work doesn’t guarantee instant freedom from the shackles of big labor.
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Soglin Seeks Spending Discipline As City Mulls Broadband-For-All Boondoggle
Of course, Soglin, ever the partisan, blames President Trump and Gov. Scott Walker for the “difficult choices ahead” his city faces, as if Republicans demanded Madison pump untold hundreds of millions of dollars into failed progressive initiatives.
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Price Tag of Randy Bryce Agenda Tops $50 Trillion
One of the Democrats running against Speaker Paul Ryan could be an expensive choice for voters if his own rhetoric is to be believed.
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Republican Lawmakers Proposing $200 Million Tax Cut, Bringing Back Walker Plan
Republicans are working on a $200 million tax cut plan – the same income-tax relief package scrapped from Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal last year.
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State Sen. Dave Craig Calls For Legislative Investigation of John Doe Probe
In an interview with the MacIver Institute’s Matt Kittle, state Sen. Dave Craig (R-Town of Vernon) said he wants the legislature to pass a bill creating a joint legislative committee to to investigate the abuses of the John Doe “investigation” targeting Wisconsin conservatives.
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Reaction to the Wisconsin Justice Department Report on the John Doe Abuse
“As this report describes in detail, the systemic and pervasive mishandling of John Doe evidence likely resulted in circumstances allowing the Guardian leak in the first place, and now prevents prosecutors from proving criminal liability beyond a reasonable doubt,” the DOJ report said. “Moreover, DOJ is deeply concerned by what appears to have been the weaponization of GAB by partisans in furtherance of political goals, which permitted the vast collection of highly personal information from dozens of Wisconsin Republicans without even taking modest steps to secure this information.”
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The Faulty, Fuzzy Math Of Tax Reform, Foxconn Critics
The fiscal bureau’s analysis also failed to take into account the broader impact of an economically transformational project, one that is expected to generate some 10,000 construction jobs, thousands more jobs supporting Foxconn and the region, and billions of dollars in secondary investment.
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Flawed Voter ID Study Draws National Criticism, Ire of State Treasurer
In a letter to the legislature, Adamczyk said the state should consider cutting $55,000 from the shared revenue being sent to Dane County.
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