Brewtown Gumshoe

Just pondering here... Our local "watchdog," the Journal Sentinel always supports (if not outright, at minimum with a subdued adv...

One-third of the cost of our health care system is purely waste . That's private sector efficiency for you. It's efficient at steeri...

Why isn't 122 Dead Americans Every Day a National Health Care Emergency?

The rumblings have been increasing for a few years now. Another boondoggle is about to be thrust upon the Milwaukee metropolitan area taxpay...

Dean Baker wonders Why Are Contracts for AIG Execs Different Than Contracts for Autoworkers? "Back in the spring, the Obama admini...

Are Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachman really referring to the Obama administration as a Chicago-mafia-esque, bunch of gangsters? No stereoty...

The Journal Sentinel is against direct democracy . "Last year, a coalition led by 9to5, the National Association of Working Women, put...

James Rowen sums up the "water war" nicely here .

The Gilded Age returns . Until wages again reward productivity rather than speculation (which has occurred alongside the post late-1970s inc...

What do you really get for your money? clean(er) air clean(er) water roads highways bridges dams automobiles public transportation (planes, ...

The Daily Reporter 's dismissive title, KK River project siphons from city tax base , misrepresents the beneficial investment opportunit...

WOW! What planet are these "people" living on? A hot steaming pile of delusional incoherence .

Lower taxes = less services = lower quality of life

The Wisconsin Department of Commerce issued a report showing that film tax credits as an economic development strategy are not cost-effecti...

Michael Rosen, economics professor and blogger of Midcoast Views , rebukes Scott Walker's proposal of an Office of Business Development ...

Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k)

The inequality and injustice gaps widen. Update: At Rescued Banks, Perks Keep Rolling

Great article, from Bob Herbert, calling for an end to the Safety Nets for the Rich .

Dean Baker squashes the Deflation Nonsense .

From the AFLCIO

Great interview from Rachel Maddow. This is how reporters and journalists should cut through the endless drivel that is paraded in front of...

Is it me or is the Marquette interchange, especially since its expensive "upgrade," slower than it has ever been? Could it be indu...

Jon Stewart has more here . Update: Gang Rape and Republicans The ACORN Standard

If you don't want to pay the cost, get your water somewhere else.

Michael Ware Richard Engel Ted Rall

ACORN: Federal Governments Best Investment Affordable Housing Innovations Economics of Models Ending LEEDs Mon opoly High-Speed Rail: A No-B...

Why doesn't any meaningful reform - that benefits most working Americans - ever happen in D.C.? Barry Ritholtz explains .

We should not be surprised when government, during periods controlled by those whom admonish the public sector, performs poorly - services ...

Marc Levine (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history and urban studies professor) has released a report, The False Promise of the Entrepre...

Bill Foy is back ranting his typical right-wing talking-points - government is bad, unions are bad, blah blah blah. Funny, as a former bank...

Has the Journal Sentinel become Scott Walker's personal PR firm? Newsflash - hey Journal , Scott Walker is an adult (or so he says), l...

Representative Mary Kaptur (Ohio) suggested to Ben Bernanke that he give as much power in the Federal Reserve decision-making process to the...

Dylan Ratigan coins an appropriate term to describe our current political economy - * corporate communism . [Courtesy of Crooks and Liars ]

From Crooks and Liars : Paul Ryan spouts his usual lies and smears, I mean, Republican talking-points regarding health care. Barney Frank wo...

400 richest Americans lined their pockets with $30 billion .

Wisconsin Foreclosure and Unemployment Relief Plan

Union members are often referred to as "thugs." When you stand up for living wages , retirement and health care benefits , and wor...

I see knuckleheads at the County budget/contact rallies complaining, "No more taxes!" (While also acting like thugs.) FYI: Taxes ...

In more stellar reporting, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , reporting on the upcoming gubernatorial race, refers to the Wisconsin Policy Re...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on the latest American Community Survey findings that Milwaukee is the 11th poorest city in the n...

A couple of illustrations, here and here , as to why a public works program would help. For Further Reading: Lessons From The New Deal Emp...

George Monbiot has an interesting article dispelling the myth that population growth is the most serious threat to the environment.

Why are conservatives so intent on attacking ACORN and SEIU? Rachel Maddow has the answer .

Five Terrible Democrats... Bums . The Daily Show has more on spineless Democrats here and here . Alan Grayson shows Dems how they should ...

Even though Chicago didn't get the 2016 Olympics, I hope the Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago rail project is still undertaken. And, why were ...

Some, in arguing against unions, maintain that increasing union wages can only increase cost in the end because the companies paying higher ...

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 ...