Brewtown Gumshoe

Some great videos concerning health care (courtesy of Crooks and Liars ): Grayson fires back at Republicans Republicans pretending to be cha...

Some midweek humor from Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert: Where The Riled Things Are government is bad, how dare they build infrastructure...

This is the epitome of Pollyanna planning. Arizona (for the most part) is a terrible experiment in unsustainable development. (The bright id...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is rambling on about Scott Walker again, Walker economic development plan could find backers . Par for the c...

I guess this is the health reform we can look forward to - waiting in lines, at large improvised tents, for medical attention.

Great information from Good Jobs First about hidden taxpayer costs (excerpt below): Wisconsin In June 2007 the state Department of Health a...

Paul Soglin with an important post about why the media should stop reporting the Tax Foundation 's nonsense. The Center on Budget and P...

Give me a break! But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Journal Sentinel thinks the idea of privatizing the Milwaukee Zoo needs...

Note to Hannity: Schools do not exist to merely regurgitate the opinions (or in your case, ignorance) and world views of the parents. Sean ...

Rachel Maddow reports the truth behind the racism/class warfare of the ACORN attacks . Not really a big surprise. More of the typical fodde...

"Bureaucrat" stirs thoughts of a unproductive slacker, needlessly pushing papers in make-work employment. This definition led me t...

The incentives, giveaways , and hand-outs of taxpayer dollars to the wealthiest are plenty. That is, we have a system whereby those whom n...

Michael Moore eviscerates capitalism in his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story . He finds it to be unworkable, evil, and needing replace...

Tom Barrett will be running for governor in 2010. Alderman Tony Zielinski will be simultaneously running for lieutenant governor. If they...

Some food for thought from Jeff Cohen.

These are turbulent times. But things are getting out of hand. Those in the public-eye (we all know who they are) inciting this anger, dist...

Susie Madrik has a nice idea over at Crooks and Liars .

When the Kings of Finance come together to plot world domination the police state rolls out in full force. Budgets are never too pinched to ...

There is another bubble on the horizon, ready to burst, which is going to slow the economic recovery and dampen growth momentum. For Furthe...

Let Freedom Ka-Ching Citizens United v Federal Election Commission

Small Midwestern States to be Hit Hardest By Climate Change Temperature Projections For the 50 U.S. States Over the Next 100 Years Toll of C...

A Note on The Bush Fiscal Legacy Obama Will Bury Our Children With Reagan Era Debt Burdens Selective Deficit Disorder The Burden of Debt

Labor Day By The Numbers Labor Day is About Rights Hard Fought and Won Zero 10 Year U.S. Job Creation

The Journal Sentinel weighed in on the latest union-related negotiation (between the City and AFSCME) taking place, Ratify This Deal . Th...

Many right-wingers are calling for tort reform as a means of achieving medical cost savings. Not that tort reform will actually save money, ...

Chicago, another city with supposed budgetary issues, has offered a $25 million tax increment finance subsidy to United Airlines. Another e...

Oak Creek may form two tax incremental finance ( TIF ) districts to spur development. TIFs were initially created with the intent of rescui...

In Wisconsin, Hopeful Signs for Factories NY Times Looks at Wisconsin Manufacturing Through Rose-colored Glasses NY Times Puff Piece On Wisc...

Chris Hayes has an interesting report explaining why inflation would actually be good for reducing our debt and for the economy in general....

Joesph Stiglitz - Nobel Prize winner, Columbia economics professor, and chairman of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performanc...

Erik Eckholm, of the New York Times , expounds on the poverty rate, median incomes, and health insurance coverage in an illuminating article...

We have $50+ million for Mercury Marine, $409 million for General Motors, $500+ million for Miller Park, roughly $400 million for Lambeau ...

The union has conceded. The company will get their “wage freeze and 30 percent pay cut for new hires and workers called back from layoffs.”...

Health care reform legislation is projected to cost $1 trillion, if enacted, from 2010 to 2019. Republicans have been feigning outrage. Geor...

Barry Ritholtz, Director of Equity Research at Fusion IQ and the man behind the blog The Big Picture , has some concerns over the Obama admi...

36% More For Water? Suburbs Say Milwaukee's All Wet No one made suburbanites build in unsustainable areas. They did so because it was c...

So, the Republicans have become so unhinged from reality that they now are trying to sell the idea that President Obama is trying to indoct...

The New York Times reports As Biggest Banks Repay Bailout Money, U.S. Sees Profit . Matt Taibbi and Max Keiser offer some perspective on ...

Auntie Em left a comment regarding my Extortion & Mercury Marine piece. Her comments are below, intertwined with my response (in italic...

In discussing health care on This Week With George Stephanopoulos , John Kerry used Massachusetts as an example to defend portions of the De...

It really doesn’t get any worse than Rush Limbaugh. He’s a truly despicable and repulsive person (I use the noun ‘person’ loosely). He makes...

Governor Doyle said , “The State of Wisconsin has offered an aggressive package to assist Mercury Marine. I am certain this package is suff...

Allow us to freeze your wages for seven years and cut the starting rate for new hires. That’s part of the “ deal ” the union at Mercury Mar...