By Robert Vosters With the economy sinking further on the news of drastically increasing unemployment, Scott Walker chose a particularly bad time to preach from the book of fiscal conservatism.  After initially indicating he wouldn’t accept any of the potential $800 billion in Federal stimulus funds because of his belief that only tax cuts are [...]

For the fifth year in a row Pension Obligation Bonds have been proposed by Scott Walker as a solution to the chronic underfunding of the Milwaukee County Pension system.  After securing bipartisan political support for the idea in 2008, even though it was rejected 57-43% in a 2004 referendum, it appears that the 2009 county [...]