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Scott Walker A Hypocrite On Out-Of-State Spending On Wisconsin Elections

The privatization/commercialization/casino-ization of Wisconsin public dollars continues. WHEDA to invest $7 million. We're broke?

Wisconsin One Of A Few States That Will Raise Taxes On The Poor.

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Tom Barret, a Democrat, spoke like a Democrat, "I think it would be great if he [Scott Walker] could find another line of work," w...

American's For Prosperity (AFP) is pushing to put and end to Tax Incremental Financing (TIF). They feel this tool of economic redevelopm...

The Journal Sentinel continues their advertising campaign  periodic reporting for the Bradley Center. Don Walker writes, Operating Income U...

An Inconvenient Truth The Case For Congestion The Corporations That Occupy Congress 2011 Milwaukee: Year In Review The Origins Of Financ...

Commercial Real Estate Prices for United States Delinquency Rate On Loans Secured By Real Estate, All Commercial Banks L...

Citizen For Tax Justice has released an extensive report detailing corporate tax dodgers from 2008-2010. Corporate Taxpayers & Corpora...

Are you kidding me? On the list of priorities for public dollars - where public investment should be steered - building a new basketball s...

David Rohde has an interesting article up over at the Atlantic , Free-Falling In Milwaukee . Excerpt: "First, the numbers. From...

With a dying planet and a dying economy , the Wisconsin Department of Transportation decides to double down on pollution and antiquated ene...

The Journal Sentinel is promoting , again, venture capital . "The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) said it will commit as...

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Good Jobs First has released a new report, Money For Something: Job Creation & Job Quality Standards For State Economic Development Subs...

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CEO Pay Skyrocketed 27% Last Year

Competition Hasn't Worked In Health Care How Did Fannie & Freddie Become Symbols Of The Housing Bubble? How Finance Vultures Feed ...

With election season heating up, Republican myth-making and outright dishonesty can't be far behind. In anticipation of the next round o...

The former head of Obama's auto task force, Steven Rattner, while speaking at a luncheon in Detroit, expressed that he wished he would h...

State Lost 11,700 Private-Sector Jobs In November For Further Reading: Wisconsin Has More October Jobs Losses Than Any Other State

Marc Marotta, the board president for the Bradley Center, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , declared the Bradley Center an economic engine...

Walker's latest campaign/defense/promotional commercial is packed with lies. A blonde female school board member gushes Republican inani...

Johnson Controls reported record sales for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011. Sales rose 9% in 2011. Earnings rose 19%. As of Sept...

Bradley Foundation Builds Conservative Empire For Business, Golden Days; For Workers, The Dross House Prices & Current Account Deficit...

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Everything conservative is encapsulated in the mythology of Ronald Reagan. But, as usual with Republicans, their talking-points don't m...

We're broke.  We're drowning in debt. We must sacrifice. We don't have money for living wages, improved transportation infrast...

Death Of The Fringe Suburb Double Taxation Of Corporate Profits & Other Fairy Tales George Will Confused By Numbers At The Post Office...

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Wisconsin has more October job losses than any other state . How can that be? We're open for business ! For Further Information on R...

The Journal Sentinel in really pushing a venture capital fund for Wisconsin. It would create "a more vibrant entrepreneurial system....

Are Wisconsin Public Employees Over-Compensated? Can The Middle Class Be Saved? Does 'Right-To-Work' Create Jobs? Does The Middle...

"Major League Baseball has commissioned a study that will look at the direct and indirect economic impact of Miller Park," reports...

Walker says he's not responsible for recall effort against him. For Further Information on Recalling Scott Walker: United Wisconsin ...

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Wisconsin Tea Party members claim they're collecting petitions for Walker recall - so they can destroy them.

More Than 20,000 Concealed Carry Applications Pour In This Week.

Climate Change & The End Of Australia End Bonuses For Bankers Greeks Being Unfairly Maligned How The Republicans Became The Party Of ...

Alabama's Migrant Workers The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video A...

Conservatives Thwart Economic Growth Exploding The "Non-Payer" Tax Myth Is Overregulation Driving U.S. Companies Offshore? The ...

Building a high-quality teaching profession The teaching penalty

Biggest public firms paid little U.S. tax Has America become an oligarchy? How corporate tax breaks could hurt small business Income ineq...

Insight from James Livingston: Private investment doesn't actually drive economic growth. Between 1900 and 2000, real gross domesti...

David Callahan has a great article, The Income Mobility Myth . The majority of the new jobs created during the presidencies of Bill Clint...

Articles regarding the bluff collapse in Oak Creek: Bluff collapse came weeks after Congress rebuffed EPA on coal ash rule Collapsed bluff...

More astute pronouncements from the Journal Sentinel editorial board, Compensation package works for Wisconsin . They want to assure reader...

Numerous cranks are continuing their efforts to revise the cause of our current economic downturn. They claim (wrongly and completely unsupp...

Government revenues in U.S. are low by international standards.  

The Journal Sentinel editorial board opined support for relaxed mining laws for a possible mining site near Ashland, Wisconsin. They belie...

According to the Journal Sentinel , Business leaders begin effort to help Bucks, Bradley Center . "Last week, a small group of influe...

State Senators Tim Cullen and Dale Schultz have jumped on the venture capital bandwagon . Their recent Journal Sentinel opinion piece tou...

An informative article by Scott Bauer cites numerous job-creation-failures of the Scott Walker administration: "The Department of Re...

For Further Reading: Tax The Poor

At one turn, the Republicans are extolling small business as the engine of job creation . (Remember hearing this oft-repeated line during t...

1.7 Million Without Electricity

The Journal-Sentinel asserts a "disease" is spreading throughout the Milwaukee Police Dept. " A tolerance for outrageous be...

Scott Walker's budget solution for Wisconsin is to gamble more public dollars at the Wall Street casino . " Walker said he wants ...

$4.8 trillion of this (if we include the total $1 trillion, pre-Reagan, debt as the Democrats' debt), for argument's sake,  can b...