Added: new guest speaker CEO Debra Waller of Jockey International Inc. Tuesday, August 11th Call 414 276 7447 to make your reservation for the up coming CYP event held on the Edelweiss. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased over the phone with a credit card or in person with cash at the ticket office ...
Check out this JSOnline article. Aside from the soap-opera-esque storyline, it’s about an external entity forcing restrictions on an organization resulting in the organization running less efficiently. I can’t help but notice the irony in that it is a government agency feeling the weight of excessive “regulation” of its day to day activities. The last ...
The Texas Transportation Institute just released their 2009 Urban Mobility Report. As noted in a JSOnline article, it turns out that “Milwaukee-area motorists spend far less time stuck in traffic than their counterparts in most similarly sized urban areas.” In fact, motorists lost a little less time due to congestion in 2007 than they did ...
http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/07/medicares_mythical_administrative_cost_savings.php Insurance companies make profit; if the government provides public insurance, we just save the profit (and all of the wasteful fragmentation of competition). You wouldn’t say that about Proctor and Gamble. Why is anyone saying it about health insurance companies? ...
Former Vice President Al Gore recently spoke in London to encourage world leaders to unite against climate change, accusing politicians of exploiting ignorance of those who don’t believe global warming is taking place and touting President Obama’s early actions in office. (if you watch the video, linked here, you can hear Gore saying that the ...
http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=22314 The Secretary of Commerce had a well-written editorial on Wisopinion about the business tax credits included in the budget. One thing he forgot, though, was the dates these provisions are effective–that is, the day they can actually be claimed by the taxpayer. The capital gains increase and income tax increases are effective for tax ...
There was an e-mail making the rounds this weekend. Below, it details the sacrifices that the men who signed the Declaration of Independence endured so that we could have the freedom that we enjoy today. It’s important to note that they were highly educated and had a place in society. They knew the consequences of ...
The Journal Sentinel has published an article (available here) indicating that Governor Doyle has been deficient in his required reporting in travel expenses nearly 150 times over the past several years, or about 75% of the time. What should disturb Wisconsin citizens is not so much the failure to report (we’ve all lost a receipt ...
“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” “[They] say that America is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it ...
The state budget was bad. And that is the Democrats’ problem. There is no doubt that our side needs to be yelling about how bad the budget really is, especially for business (as we today see that Briggs and Stratton is moving jobs away from Wisconsin and to states with more friendly business climates). I ...