The Democrats do not have a candidate for Governor. Jim Doyle, knowing her was not to seek re-election announced early so that viable candidates might emerge and begin the long arduous campaign accompanies with the requisite fund raising. As of today, no candidate emerged. Given the critical nature of the problem, if there is no viable Democratic gubernatorial candidate by Thanksgiving I will announce...
Paul Ryan, an ambitious Republican from southeast Wisconsin is a darling of the corporate wing of the GOP. He gets more in thinly-veiled corporate bribes from Big Business than the rest of the Wisconsin congressional delegation combined. And he's been getting a well-deserved reputation as a congressman who can always be counted on to sell out his own constituents-- especially when it comes to jobs--...
You can't see her without buying an advance ticket ($30), but Sarah Palin is in town tonight to speak at a Wisconsin Right to Life event. Speaking of pols, Gov. Jim Doyle will be in Fond du Lac to thank Mercury Marine, its employees and others for not letting the company bail for Oklahoma. A guy who might want to be guv, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, is aiming to raise city property taxes by 4.4% with...
The fight to keep Mercury Marine Inc. from moving its Fond du Lac operations to Oklahoma could cost Wisconsin taxpayers $70 million in public assistance to the outboard-engine maker, Gov. Jim Doyle revealed Thursday.
Heh. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle claims OWI reform is a leading issue on his agenda, but he will not sign a student’s pledge agreeing to resign if he is ever caught drinking and driving. A group of students from Schofield created “Lacey’s Pledge” and sent it to Wisconsin lawmakers. The namesake of the bill is Lacey Meinel, a local girl who was killed in a drunk driving accident....
Barack Obama laid down the gigantic carbon footprint that is Air Force 1 to go to a middle school in the midwest to give a speech 's. Was it worth it? Are kids made more intelligent by the real-life appearance of the President? Surely, some must become more confused. What is the President's job? I remember one time, back in the 1950s — when I was a Brownie — I was taught how to make a hat...
James C. Wright Middle SchoolMadison, Wisconsin 1:40 P.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Hello, Madison! (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you. Everybody, please, have a seat. Have a seat. It is good to see all of you. Good to be back in Madison. I want to first of all just say that Jim Doyle is not only one of the finest governors we have in the country, but is also a great friend, a...
Tommy Thompson, whose mirror likes him, thinks of running for Governor, again. Yah, but Tommy, some of us read Murphy's stuff . It’s been a field day for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporting on the huge payments going to fraudulent day care providers. But there’s really a far deeper institutional problem here, one started by former Gov. Tommy Thompson back in the 1990s, and aided and...
More than 5,000 students from low-income families who graduate from high school in 2011 will be eligible for $1,500 college grants under the Wisconsin Covenant, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday.
Obama at Viers Mill school in Maryland President Barack Obama's scheduled visit to Madison Wednesday will be a chance for the president and state officials to talk about how incentives in the federal stimulus bill are spurring education reforms in the state, Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday. Doyle is pushing bills to allow schools to use student learning to help evaluate teachers and transfer control of...
Gov. Jim Doyle flew around the state last week to announce the expansion or relocation of 10 tech-based companies, the news raised a question that is harder to answer than one might imagine: How many technology companies and tech jobs does Wisconsin have? Read full column.
Madison - Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton says she was not influenced by the White House to exit the Wisconsin governor's race and that other rumors about her abrupt departure are untrue. Lawton told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday that she dropped out of the race on Monday after speaking with her husband and two adult children. She says she is in good health and that she was not lobbied...
The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding a total of $4.3 million to the cities of Milwaukee and Madison and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association to support solar energy technologies, accelerate the adoption of solar energy, and develop a solar work force, Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday.
We had warned you about Diamond Jim Doyle's "plan" to make Wisconsin a wasteland . The Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming recommended utilities continue [solar power] programs offering buyback incentives for customers, but Soletski said the lawmakers drafting a bill based on those recommendations are grappling with where to place the financial burden Soletski (Dumbcluck-GreenBay)...
It was raining again this morning, I was taking pictures, and these people were talking about sunny money. Governor Jim Doyle announced http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=4660"> Wisconsin is receiving $4.3 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to support solar energy technologies, accelerate the adoption of solar energy and develop a solar workforce...
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