By John Burbank You’d be hard-pressed to find a better example of “kick-’em when they’re down” politics this year than the workers’ compensation legislation rushed through...
By Kimberly Freeman Brown Right-wing pundits and politicians have been in rare form over the past few weeks, with the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint against...
By Brendan Williams Throughout the 2011 legislative session, cold comfort, and perhaps a smug relativism, was found in the statement, “We’re not Wisconsin.” Indeed, as time...
By David Groves Calling all advocates for open government. You know who you are. Every newspaper editorial board in the state. Every right-wing corporate-funded think tank....
By Sen. Scott White With continued high unemployment and an economy on a slow path to recovery, now more than ever voters expect their elected officials...
By Marilyn Watkins When we go out for a meal or shop for groceries, none of us wants to come home with stomach flu. Yet most...
By Sen. Maralyn Chase Most state government programs are under regular review – if they don’t work, they don’t last. The same cannot be said about...
By John Burbank The era of 9/11 may have been brought to a close last week with the killing of Osama bin Laden. President Obama spoke...
By Brendan Williams In my six years in the State House, I never met a small business owner who wanted our state to fail. Yet associations that...
By Rep. Hans Dunshee Jobs is a good word. Debt is rightly a nasty word as Congress wrestles with the national deficit. But our state of...