…with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter, “Want coffee.”
The waiter says, “Sure, coming right up.” He gets the guy a tall mug of coffee. He drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns and blasts the buffalo with the [...]

Yesterday, taxpayers started shelling tax dollars to incarcerate former State Senator Chuck Chvala who is clearly not a risk to the community.
The entire concept of prison is to keep the public safe and to punish the accused, but this is a case where not only is Chvala being punished but the taxpayers are also.
Republicans usually [...]

Key would “should”, but there’s a lot of misinformation being bantered around lately about whether politicians know better than the people regarding taxes.
I’ll start with a premise that yes, we all want our taxes to be lowered. But after that I depart from our demogogue GOP friends.
Colorodo may have passed TABOR (the Taxpayer Bill [...]

Well it’s official. Jessica McBride, wife of Waukesha DA Paul Bucher, is taking over the WTMJ talk radio slot vacated by Mark Reardon.
Why was Reardon fired? Well it’s all speculation but Reardon occasionally showed a glimmer of objectivity — a trait McBride doesn’t suffer from. TMJ claimed Reardon’s firing was a budget [...]

County Executive Scott Walker, who loves to take credit for helping kill gas tax indexing, is still pushing for the humongous, multi-billion dollar freeway expansion plan. Isn’t it time he explained which taxes he would raise and how much he would raise them to pay for it?

Last year we highlighted how Bruce Thomas, a CRG activist, ran to win a seat on the Brown Deer school board. His platform consisted primarily of railing against spending in schools. Fortunately voters turned him away.
Now he’s back on the ballot but there’s a greater possibility that this convicted criminal might [...]