• Rep. Huebsch: Payments on this budget for decades to come
• Liberty
• Rep. Petersen: Nelson on the budget gets an "F"
• The nanny state and baggage size limits
• Does your legislator support pension reform in Wisconsin?
• Do we need the state mandating electronics recycling?

• Burri: Dems can't argue one side and ignore the other
• Ellis: State budget places burden on property taxpayers
• Nelson and Bernard Schaber couldn't get it done
• Jim Doyle to lead rugby league
• Sen. Scott Fitzgerald: One party control costs Wisconsin taxpayers $5B
• Rep. Montgomery: A sordid tale with an unhappy ending
• UW Card Check - and worse? - on verge of passing?
• Sen. Fitzgerald: Final budget will cripple Wisconsin
• Details. Messy budget comes out of Conference
• Ok. Let's talk about "this family values trash."
• Is $500,000 still in state budget for Opera House?
• Scott Fitzgerald on the Conference Committee
• Rahmlow: A healthy challenge for Feingold
• Do police escorts constitute economic development?
• Grothman: Remove provision raising costs of auto insurance
• U.S. Rep. Tom Petri and Cap-and-Trade
• Imagine that. Following the will of one's district.
• Burri: Sometimes people do stupid things. Let them go.
• Tom Nelson - unbelievable hubris
• WisPolitics: Let the final bargaining begin
• Ellis: Senate Democrats move to cripple government watchdog
• You must listen to this. Paul Ryan pleads for fiscal responsibility
• Dems negotiating behind closed doors. Again.
• Beware of a "Stronger Oshkosh"
• Is Rep. Hintz vulnerable?
• Overserved or overindulged?
• Parins: To TABOR or not to TABOR
• Burri: We have rights. When is it a right to say no?
• Rahmlow: Is Kohl's good guy image finally tarnished?
• GOP budget contributions summarily rejected
• Emily Matthews: The bad, rad, dad and just plain mad
• Budget sausage-making continues
• Dems maneuvering in closed caucus
• Is Wisconsin SOL on GM?
• Ellis, Fitzgerald and Cowles on the $2B deficit
• A FP reader writes to Roger, Penny and Tom
• Burri: Obama brings Apology Tour to Green Bay
• Bipartisan budget? We report. You decide.
• Rep. Petersen: Who pays when high-income taxpayers fight back?
• Write your legislator. Now.
• Bless this man. He doesn't stop!
• Jack Voight announces candidacy for Co. Exec.
• Obama visit: Join the Party of KNOW
• Sen. Ellis says Assembly fundraising 'ban' exposed as sham
• Dems will need to buy budget votes in Assembly
• The Sound of Silence
• Fireworks in the Dem caucus
• Burri: Not to worry - government will handle it
• Op-Ed: Job creators ready to grow, if state will stand with them
• Venting. "We" are supposed to manage GM?
• Programs actually being eliminated?
• '...so many bad things in this budget' says Schneider
• These are just the earmarks from Thursday's session!
• Dems spin the budget - do we look stupid? Part II

• Taxpayers, did you know the budget mess is your fault?
• Wow. 26% insurance SAVINGS for school district
• Who says the budget will be passed in the dark of night?
• Apparently Rep. Zigmunt needs help
• Imagine. Health plan savings for a school
• Dastardly stuff going on in Joint Finance Committee
• Doyle gets $millions via the Garbage Tax
• Burri: President Obama - if you don't like Gitmo, change it.
• Could help be on the way for out-of-business auto dealers?
• WEA Trust doesn’t think it’s part of the problem?
• You serve so I can be free
• Do we taxpayers look stupid?
• Kagen and transparency and hypocrisy - redux
• Emily Matthews: We the People - and the Recall Doyle effort
• Greenleaf patriots. Salt of the earth
• Rahmlow: DOA Secretary obligated to defend Doyle
• No more free ride for good credit risks
• I think it's chocolate chip cookies for me
• Burri: This time... maybe we can't turn back from the brink
• Breakthrough. WEAC's talking pay freezes
• It's time public employees paid fair share
• The Natural Conservative: Barack's Garden Party
• Beware of tax hyperbole from the left
• WI GPS-on-a-car ruling contradicted in NY
• If Michigan's in such bad shape...
• BCTA: Rep. Nelson won't back away form QEO repeal, prevailing wage expansion
• So, what is Outagamie County doing about their budget?
• It's not campaigning anymore
• Health care reform - up to each of us
• Burri: Imagine. "Universal" dental care doesn't work
• Ellis & Cowles: Governor should start over on budget
• It's not my fault. It's not your fault.
• Parins: Death by a thousand cuts
• Already it's starting. Don't cut MY program
• Governor Doyle running scared?
• If you don't read anything else today, read this
• Finally. Stuff is hitting the fan.
• Is dog-and-pony-show hearing better than no hearing?
• Enough already with the swine flu
• 'Socialists running wild on Other People's Money'
• Schmuki: We the people will change the course of history
• Where was Obey's objection to a 'theoretical stimulus?'
• Burri: Imagine... businesses exist to make money
• Desperate legislators making after-midnight political deals
• If only Doyle was a woman...
• Fox Cities Regional Transit Authority nixed by JFC
• Schmuki: Recall Doyle is alive and well. Believe it.

• We taxpayers should be outraged
• Alarms in vans
• Recall Doyle meeting in Appleton, 5/7
• Specter failed Reagan's litmus test
• How many communities will say No to sure-to-come referendums?
• Are counties suffering from Doyle bait-and-switch?
• So Republicans are supposed to show more interest? What???
• Rep. Petersen: The first 100 days an assault on your employer
• Burri: You're not scaring me with this flu stuff
• Rep. Montgomery: Madison leaders ring in new phone taxes
• Obama urges strict budgeting. What?
• How much handwriting is on the wall?
• More staff? More pensions?
• Are Kagen and cohorts in a bind on cap-and-trade?
• Mandated van alarms?
• Doyle budget borders on larceny
• Joint Finance is just getting started
• Burri: I think I hear the water boiling...
• Kagen hyperbole
• Celebrate slivers of good news out of Joint Finance
• I missed the Tea Parties!
• Funding libraries with funny money?
• Republican challenges Kagen in GOP-tilting district
• Burri: It's no time to set my burdens down
• Buy American not all motherhood and apple pie
• Doyle recall should be looking more plausible
• Conservatives - where are ye?
• Who does Rep. Kagen think We (or He) is?
• Wow. Senator Ellis is hopping mad.
• Rahmlow: Here come higher property taxes
• Ellis: What hiring freeze? Doyle wants 28 more state lawyers
• An open letter to Menasha Mayor Merkes & the Common Council
• Did taxpayers win in Beloit?
• Creating a judicial nightmare in Wisconsin
• Voters said no to payroll increases
• Rose Fernandez is one classy lady
• Burri: A superhero flick with a point
• School stimulus situation doesn't bode well for taxpayers
• I'm voting for Rose Fernandez Tuesday because
• MacIver Institute: The growing cost of Wisconsin's high school dropout rate
• I am not Big Oil
• Budget hearing: Many proposals in budget impact our insurance bills
• Budget hearing: Stansbury Theater is packed
• Budget hearing: Business steps in
• Budget hearing: WEAC weighs in
• Budget hearing: Continues in Appleton, well over 300 in attendance
• Budget hearing: More opposition to QEO, support of domestic abuse funding

• Burri: Obama's compass is... GW?
• They love Obama so much they bought a car
• Imagine that. A federal program that won't work
• Joint Finance Committee Public Hearing
• Free health benefits - or keep more teachers?
• Give up 2% of my assets? Where does this stuff come from?
• Cool. KFC advertises via repaired potholes
• We want more. More, more, more.
• Grothman: We are punishing married families with children
• Congress could establish a "Bowl Championship Series?"
• Is the voucher glass half full or half empty?
• There is a price to be paid for this kind of paternalism
• Geithner vs. (Nicolet Bank's) Atwell
• Is it all for the kids these days?
• Burri: Is Obama in over his head?
• Like The Onion in your inbox everyday
• Fernandez ready to take on challenges as DPI top gun
• Even Milwaukee objects to prevailing wage costs
• This outrage is scary
• Volunteerism - at your expense
• Mark Harris a member of Progressive Majority's "Farm Team"
• Get the policy stuff out of the budget
• Does this mean Card Check has 60 votes?
• Ellis: Telephone tax wasn't supposed to pay for libraries
• Just can't help making Obama the hero. Daily.
• Into the AIG abyss steps Kagen
• Burri: So we're all ticked off at AIG right now
• Retirement from public sector employment in WI
• Public employees - layoffs vs. wage freeze. Compromise?
• Rep. Petersen: Hidden Doyle policy would hike auto insurance rates
• Huebsch: It's not an energy policy if it ignores nuclear
• Obey, House leaders call for earmarks reform
• You don't know whether to scream or cry
• Drum roll.... Will Kagen support Card Check this time around?
• Nobody reads the damn bills
• Those empty buses - they just don't go away
• Burri: Conservatives coming out of the woodwork?
• Wisconsin conservatives - much to say
• Too much nonsensical news - and what to do about it
• Grothman: 'Employee Discrimination Bill' overreaches
• Ellis: Buried provision would make state a union organizer
• Inspire kids to stand up to their parents
• Line up at the government trough
• Bait and switch - Appleton Schools
• Bait and switch, Doyle-style
• Ryan nails it. Speaks truth to power
• Pridemore: Entitlements have lured so many into poverty
• Grothman: Alumni must fight UW unionizing effort
• Burri on capitalism: For richer or for poorer
• Now this is Middle America...

• Huebsch: $2.2B in new taxes
• Huebsch: Is spending in your house going up over 10%?
• Lean processes for small and very small businesses
• Budget sleight of hand, under the radar
• Kagen's getting marching orders
• At least one Democrat governor now objects to stimulus bucks
• Obama adjusts Iraq timeline. Imagine that.
• Hundertmark: Were our founding fathers rolling in their graves?
• Iowa's trying to SAVE dollars on public projects. Imagine.
• I thought Wisconsin was supposed to be cutting back?
• Rep. Jeff Flake doesn't stop fighting earmarks
• Burri to liberals: Incentives do matter
• WisPolitics: Obscure tax changes show up in Doyle budget
• The entitlement society
• Montgomery: Eight Days, $1.2 Billion in Taxes, No Solution
• Serious results of Doyle's love affair with WEAC
• Mr. President, surely you understand the Bill of Rights
• The STRUGGLE Wisconsin should be undertaking
• Should city workers head to San Diego for national competition?
• Zipperer: Major tax increase approved by legislature; all Republicans vote No
• Ellis: Toll roads not needed; STOP Transportation Fund raids
• The morning after - try to look on the bright side?
• Ellis says public loses out - again
• Zipperer on the Doyle budget proposal
• Scott Walker on Doyle budget proposal
• Burri: A day for political junkies - and vote for Rose Fernandez
• Republican governors take to President Obama
• Yes, every kid deserves a great education
• Ponschock: In education, results must be paid for
• Text available for huge "stimulus" bill?
• Is Appleton Schools referendum out of touch with the times?
• Ryan says 'stimulus plan' is a catastrophe
• Burri: How to survive the 'stimulus'
• Up in smoke: Sad saga of the tobacco settlement
• Grothman lays it on the line with business community
• Bumper Sticker Legislating
• Mike Ellis: Assembly fundraising "ban" is a sham
• Yesterday, the babies lost.
• The ‘Establishment of Atheism’ clause
• Michael Steele – not a cookie-cutter guy
• Election 2009: Grand Chute Chairman. Vote Feb. 17
• Fiscally irresponsible actions drive WI deficit

• Do you see any taxpayer groups included here?
• Soglin misses the point completely
• Where's Citizen Action Wisconsin when you need them?
• Roosters and being a good neighbor (or not)
• Don't tell me Rep. Obey listened to Republicans
• "Staying even" is the new "increase"
• Surprise. Kagen votes to support "investment" package
• Wow. $11.2B for presidential helicopters
• Top 10 list of what Gov. Doyle won't say in State-of-State tonight
• Some Democrats among stimulus skeptics
• We like it when people give us stuff
• Unbelievable. Senate approves digital TV delay
• WI "Jobs" bills will cost real money
• Union members oppose big labor's card check
• Just say NO to the stimulus plan
• Rahmlow: First "jobs bills" are all style, not substance
• A honeymoon can mean mistakes
• Budget double-speak
• Personal responsibility - or the government's?
• The bailout will fix it....
• Burri writes of a man of dignity, honor and courage
• Moving piecemeal to government-run health care
• "Use stimulus $$s wisely." Duh.
• "There are no earmarks in this package."
• Requesting stimulus money - it's a mess
• Why be a responsible municipality?
• Governing by the polls - again?
• This man will be in charge of the IRS!
• How much of a raise did you get last year?
• Burri: If we ever needed a do-nothing Congress, now's the time
• Governor Doyle can't get past the 7-page questionnaire
• Doyle backtracking on public education
• Meyer: 'Government' used to mean self-regulation
• Count our property tax blessings - I guess
• The Confidence game
• Over 1.4 million Christmas cards sent to U.S. troops. Wow.
• It's you and I who must act on health care costs
• Burri: Forget the bailout and please everyone
• Meyer: Conservatives must conserve
• What MORE do some Americans want Mr. Obama to do?

• Meyer: Resolve to not reinvent government still again
• Beer isn't of itself a harmful substance...
• Burri: The Bush & Clinton families. LaFollettes. John & John Quincy
• Republicans outspent, $4.4M to $2.7M
• Republicans outspent by nearly 2 to 1
• Joy to the World
• You decide... who "stoked" the mortgage bonfire?
• Burri: How would YOU raise the son of God?
• Private pension, 401(k) contributions slashed
• Meyer: The tyranny of the emboldened minority
• Increasing the beer tax - dead on arrival?
• Try arguing against Bailout II at Christmas gatherings
• Parins: Wisconsin Whey?
• Burri: She fought back!!
• Should public employees make sacrifices too?
• Taxpayer bailout for AASD?
• He went to work yesterday?
• One budget solution: Freeze spending
• Lasee: All ramped up
• Burri: What if a Mumbai happened here?
• So Doyle should get serious about raising taxes?
• Vouchers vs. MPS funding
• Conservatives best be able to swim upstream
• Should able-bodied adults work for Food Stamps?
• FP Reader: Post-Crescent layoffs should be across the board
• Typical. Wants spending cuts, but no specifics
• Rep. Nass, it's no time to relax
• We're simply going to have to make choices
• There's no such thing as "the American people"
• Burri: DNR deer numbers are a little shaky
• Meyer: GOP must compete in 21st century political marketplace

• This is cool. Follow the bridge...
• Gannett cutbacks coming soon
• Lasee: The economy and a Thanksgiving feast
• Public employee wages - frozen
• Burri: Why Gov. Doyle is exaggerating a crisis
• Meyer: The motive behind false campaign accusations
• A new line on your property tax bills
• Holiday Mail for Heroes
• Dealers ask for protection - and then a bailout
• Grothman calls for end to special aid for MPS
• Burri: Be honest. Campaign finance reform limits free speech
• So will WI finally be cutting spending?
• Rahmlow: Bernard Schaber will get pressure on taxes
• Meyer: Objections of pro-choicers have little validity
• Good news isn't news
• Lasee: Realignment of Power
• An apology to Appleton's City Clerk
• Heyer: Bankruptcy for Fox River Mall?
• Now this is scary. You could lose your 401(k)
• Burri: No lame duck status for Doyle...
• Rahmlow: Doyle and Dems want to get busy
• Hmmm. Where's Gov. Doyle in the news?
• Meyer: Ryan, Reagan and the future
• Cuts? Doyle is talking about cuts?
• Tails from the trails - the good stuff
• Mark Gundrum on women in government in Iraq
• To follow one's conscience or one's constituents
• An incredible night for the world. What?
• Burri: It's finally almost over.
• Meyer: On conspiracy theories

• Lasee: Website of shame reducing deficit
• Burri: Republicans must unite to fight
• Meyer: Past associations count
• Parins: On government, over-leveraged
• Lasee: On Socialism
• Burri: So what will Dems in control mean?
• Wall Street debacle strengthens privatizing SS
• Eggleston: I knew Bill Ayers when...
• Lasee: Self-reliance or lots of government?
• Burri: Awfully easy to be fraudulent in WI
• Meyer: Spared from a George McGovern presidency
• Solberg: For Hispanics, McCain is the only choice
• Lasee: Are we sitting with our heads in the sand?
• Burri: Just shut up and hand over your wallet
• Meyer: Palin and family values
• Lasee: The Law of Supply and Demand

• It's Obama's race to lose
• Keeping Bush tax reductions is best for US
• Ongoing saga of the financial bailouts. A summary
• Lasee: Thought process of lefties is of great interest
• Burri: A black hole created by other people's stupidity
• The banking crisis, summaries and comments
• Prestegard: On WI economic news
• Lasee: Can you spare a dime (or some time)?
• Europe needs Prime Minister Obama
• Parins: Choose candidate with the right tax policies
• Frank Lasee on stretching our education dollars
• Burri: Why the Palin choice is a good one
• Constitution Party prez candidates make WI ballot
• Wigderson: Last night I saw the future of the GOP
• Is enough ever enough?
• The irony of Freedom
• Solberg: 2008 GOP confab "habla Espanol" to youth

• A reader's perspective: Appleton West's 'experiment'
• Wigderson says: Garvey may be on to something about Obama
• Lasee: Arrest the illegals
• Burri on Biden: It's all about gravitas...
• Wigderson: Wisconsin has a drinking problem
• When the time comes to question your electric bill...
• Solberg: Why John Gard?
• Voice your opinion on onerous mercury rules
• Is Senator Clinton up to shenanigans?
• Spending controls: If the state won't do it - YOU do it
• David John: It's time to focus on (Soc. Sec.) solutions
• Wigderson: Blog because you can make a difference
• Aren't Ponzi schemes illegal?
• Burri: Government-run health care is not the Holy Grail
• Dooley: There they go again
• McCain on Hispanic issues during "Straight Talk" tour in Racine
• Wigderson: What will they do when confronted with REAL racism?
• Lasee: Bikes disappear. It's human nature.
• Burri: The Sierra Club feels our pain
• Dooley: A massively biased media
• Rahmlow: Kagen exploits papermakers again

• Wigderson: Political correctness gone awry
• Lasee: Will government care for me if MY business fails?
• Burri: Boiling the frog of civil liberties
• Dooley: How many votes can you buy with $1.43 TRILLION?
• Wigderson says: Above all, don't panic!
• Lasee: Just send it ALL in
• Why do they hate us?
• Dooley: FoxPolitics doesn't do sports??
• Parins: Foot in mouth disease
• Wigderson: Repeal the lottery
• Lasee: And you thought you were safe
• Burri: Give me liberty or give me...?
• Vanden Plas: WI more competitive after Court ruling
• Wigderson: Who watches the watchers?
• Lasee: Environmental extremists will do damage
• Burri: Selective outrage is not heroism
• Where neighbors help neighbors
• Rep. Gundrum: From Iraq
• Wigderson: Now is the time to act on Price Gouging
• Lasee on Liberty
• National Conference portrays faith-based success
• Burri: Lawton for Governor?

• Tom Sladek: Sustainability is hot
• Still, governor's e-mails not accessible to citizens
• Wigderson: Politicization of the court - on steroids
• Frank Lasee: State pensions better than Las Vegas
• Lance Burri: I'm shocked. BadgerCare is over budget.
• Pay attention Fox Valley. KRM is coming.
• Mark Rahmlow: 3 MUSTS for GOP candidates
• Wigderson: Railing on Jim Doyle
• Frank Lasee: Oil pensions for WI retirees
• Lance Burri: Democrats - fighting the last war?
• Fred Dooley: Wisconsin Proud
• Frank Lasee: More taxpayers ought to object
• James Wigderson: It's roses or a wood chipper
• Mark Rahmlow on Steve Kagen and big oil
• Trust but verify. Always.
• Lance Burri: The blame game in Janesville
• Fred Dooley: I am not a racist
• Brave heroes
• Wigderson: Politicians pointing fingers in Janesville
• AK, WY and NM are higher tax states than WI?
• A mess of an election
• NEVs now legal on Appleton city streets

• The rest of the world on the backs of American pharma
• James Wigderson: The Nanny Muncipality
• Not in my 1973 Webster's
• Lance Burri: Over-analyzing Indiana Jones
• Fred Dooley: Nothing else matters
• Rep. Mark Gundrum: On Memorial Day
• Mark Rahmlow: Assembly won't turn blue
• James Wigderson: So the AG wants to give me a million dollars
• Senator Ellis: Governor, legislature to blame for structural deficit
• Frank Lasee: The Magic Wand of government
• Lance Burri: Irresistible force vs. immovable object
• Fred Dooley: Flat Earth
• Is it "Pepsi" time in Madison?
• Wigderson: So the Libertarian Party does have standards...
• From Fred Dooley: We got stimulated Friday
• Lance Burri: I guess I'm a public enemy too
• From Frank Lasee: Green Electricity
• Nationally renowned brain scientist, May 13
• Mark Rahmlow: Where's the recession Steve?
• Adam Delikowski: Pharma ad nonsense
• Rep. Kevin Petersen: Required: A photo ID to vote
• 4th Annual Kevin Kendall Ride for Trails
• James Wigderson: A leap beyond faith
• Rep. Frank Lasee: Hidden Tax
• From Lance Burri: Cheese on the Ticket
• Prison Guard Overtime
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• Big Coffee
• Fiorina and McCain
• From Lance Burri: The Great Conservative Con
• Referendum required - for new CITY buildings?
• The Mount Pleasant end-around

• Cell phones - it's about community, not rules
• Senators Ellis and Cowles: Not a good idea to combine Compact and budget
• An autism mandate is not the best answer
• Wisconsin is not the exception
• A reasonable alternative to 4K?
• From Lon Ponschock: Nix cell phone use at the library
• I'm running to succeed Steve Wieckert in the 57th
• School enrollment numbers - not a slam dunk
• From Rep. Frank Lasee: Your Vote COUNTS
• Dang it Rep. Kagen. Get your darned facts straight
• Republican Jim Steineke running in the 5th Assembly District
• Would Kagen the statesman say THAT?
• Why is 4-year-old kindergarten all the rage?
• Now it's Appleton's turn
• Fundraising numbers for WI's House members
• From Richard Parins: Gov. James Bond-age
• No-bid contracts are bad precedent to set
• $uch a simple thing as a sign here and there
• A Grapes of Wrath portrayal
• McCain will win big this fall
• Adam Delikowski: Look to Europe for Fuel Efficiency
• From Frank Lasee: Corn is King (and taxpayers aren't...)
• School districts roll the dice
• More and more multi-million dollar cuts
• Grand Chute will most likely proceed with merger
• Rep. Kevin Petersen: Details on Great Lakes Compact
• I'm too stupid - you too.
• Imagine that. Cigarette tax revenues not high enough
• Rep. Frank Lasee: Supreme (Court) Mud
• Jack Lohman: What do smoking ban and Healthy WI have in common?
• Rep. Van Roy: Committed to passing a Compact good for Wisconsin
• Thank you from Scott Walker
• The AG's office - what a difference a year makes
• Conservatives rejoice, Soglin grabs at straws
• Wow. Gableman wins - and Menasha is de-Lauxed
• Another politician with his finger in the wind

• Important votes Tuesday, including Appleton Common Council
• Democrats are becoming supply siders??
• WEAC has created an unsustainable monopoly
• Further debunking Hillary myths
• 'Operation Chaos' working?
• Joe Martin the best candidate in Appleton's 8th
• From Mark Gundrum: One of the greatest honors an American can experience
• State programs to cut? - Volume II
• Oh the naivete of youth
• Not just disingenuous - flat wrong
• Steve - you will be missed
• Rep. Steve Kagen joining me on Jerry Bader Show today
• Make cuts only AFTER you're elected....
• Getting serious: What programs can we cut?
• Has Dave Obey turned the corner on earmarks?
• Mark Rahmlow: "We're Broke."
• Speaker Huebsch: Governor turns down Federal Aid?
• Rep. Van Roy: Dental Care Pilot Program
• This is trash talk - about a veteran
• As taxpayers, how do we know if it's a Chevy or a Lexus?
• Frank Lasee: Take time to get the Compact right
• Roth thankful, Kagen shaking money tree
• 'The Gableman Ad' - is it racist?
• Gov. Doyle's office not enamored with Freedom of Information
• You're threatening me about potholes?
• Rep. Van Roy speaks out about smear ads
• Leadership on smoking ban? Not Hanna
• Governor Doyle will never do it
• First suggestion for 'slashing' programs
• Losing the Hastert seat is NOT a trend and NOT curtians for the GOP
• Big money-saver for municipalities
• Any chances???
• More one time fixes. Nuts.
• I'm doing the Jerry Bader Show, today, the 11th
• Representative Frank Lasee: Final Waltz of the Season
• Guest Blog: It's not the county's business to be in the nursing home business
• Yup, Hillary won Texas and Ohio
• Gableman/Butler race featured - and it isn't pretty
• Lies from Planned Parenthood and NARAL
• He who sacrifices liberty.....
• Duh.
• The Troha sentencing, Doyle and that $200K
• Guns, passion and "originality"
• How hard is it anyway, to shut down a government program?
• Voting is a PRIVILEGE. And so are property taxes....
• Guest Blog: Governor Doyle, cancel your Ireland trip

• Special tax treatment - for me? For you?
• Kagen would be targeted by new ethics panel
• It's time. Nix Same Day Registration
• Can't paint the buildings, but pay off 55 y/o's with millions
• Van De Hey works for Kagen now
• Sit-in was a paid political performance
• Primary "intensity" doesn't play out in November
• Voting still gives me goosebumps
• McCain struck a chord - and remember to vote!!
• A bittersweet election in Menasha
• Every kid deserves a well-paid teacher
• Optional Medicare for businesses?
• Appleton, you may need to say NO. Thursday, 4:00
• McCain in Oshkosh, Gableman under the mat
• ALWAYS our job to look over shoulders
• Something for everyone
• Well, my blood is pumping!
• Time to get our heads out of the sand. The Bush budget
• NCLB - or the state's low test standards?
• Dinesh D'Souza right here, up close and personal
• Ok, that's enough. No more lines on the tax form
• Another state subsidy - from the Transportation Fund?!!

• Christian morals infused in school kids. Tsk tsk.
• Republicans portrayed as hard-hearted ogres
• How about a sit-in until we get GAAP budgeting?
• Students against Gannett
• Democracy works for virtual schools. Hallelujah
• Everyone's responsibility but mine
• Doyle promises: to spend or not to spend?
• Taxpayer-funded referendum "education"
• Rub elbows with the big boys
• Living large is no longer an option
• Guest Blog: Overwhelming demonstration of support for Virtual Schools
• Wasn't it just last February they asked for a new high school?
• WEAC wins hands down. What else is new?
• Pushing the feds on immigration
• The Supreme Court election - it's all about interpretation
• Every kid deserves a great school. Don't they?
• Guest Blog by Susan Armacost: Abortion battle looming in Wisconsin
• So did the tears work?
• What in heck is a populist?
• Native Americans win coming and going?
• Words mean something
• San Francisco judge nixes Healthy Wisconsin
• Musings: Caucus day, garbage day, complaint day, sacred day
• Them's is fightin' words

• Let's all play nice in the sandbox
• Christmastime in Vietnam, 1965
• "God bless all of you who fight our battles..."
• Joy to the world!
• To the Country. To our veterans
• Reindeer are a spineless move?
• Here we go again with the earmark stuff
• A tale of two cities
• Check your facts at the door....
• Doesn't Cory Liebmann get it?
• Walter Kalata, dead at 74
• 80 kids in a school district?
• Is experimental technology to blame?
• I smell referendums - everywhere
• Down with fund transfers
• We (apparently) can't handle the truth!!!
• The Perfect Storm at the water plant
• It's a big deal when parents have to join the union
• Early to bed is a punishment?
• Rants and raves
• Anatomy of a Water Plant - a dance around accountability

• Don't diss the guy on the front line
• Just FYI stuff - salaries and sub-primes
• There oughta be a law...
• Bad news, good news, sad news, "get 'em" news
• The Fox Cities PAC... and the rest of the story
• The root cause of Milwaukee violence?
• I'm thankful for life
• I've been empowered by the pills!
• Taxpayers outnumbered in school funding fight
• Battle for headquarters... does NE WI measure up?
• Mistakes are made to be admitted, corrected and learned from
• Time Warner goes on offense
• A snake in tax-cut clothing
• Guest Blog: Outagamie County Budget Analysis
• No bacon for Racine - the 8th district (and Rep. Obey) has it all!
• Guest Blog from Sen.'s Ellis, Cowles: Watch for highway robbery
• The nanny state
• Outrage at this water plant business
• Don't die for the next two months
• All politics - and tax levying - is local
• It's the tax levy, stupid...

• Smoking toward a hospital tax
• Sit-in on the Assembly floor - or meaningful reform?
• A coincidence of headlines?
• Throw the book at PBCG? - watch your own district!
• Perhaps veto pen should target last minute stuff...
• Do you need to read the regs to get a hunting license?
• Industriousness - the Wisconsin Way?
• Contributors, legislators, go both ways
• This is not doomsday in the Appleton School District
• "Freedom of speech is their own punishment"**
• Push 'em back, push 'em back, wa-a-a-y back
• Brown Co. Taxpayers Tax Times, October
• Bait and switch - or blackmail - or both?
• Farm workers in critical short supply
• Who has forgotten Jay Johnson?
• Enough of this negative trash
• Lazy, selfish legislators
• Awfully early to be making a decision
• Ron Paul & Jeff Flake - they pass the test
• Big Conservative Bash
• Guest Article: A Valuable Primer for Education Reporters (and anyone else searching out the whole story)
• Be a chum, Madam Burmaster
• Here's what's critical in any Cigarette Tax deal

• The Sunlight Club
• Erpenbach vs. Vukmir - stark differences
• Mad as heck and not going to take it anymore
• Welfare as we knew it
• Speaker Huebsch, please don't drink the Kool-Aid!
• A teacher. Priceless?
• Government employees: on the Gravy Train
• Pro-life looking for victories
• What?? I'm responsible for my own health?
• WDC and Ziegler. I'm tired of it.
• Yippee! Something's moving in conference
• GB task force loses key member
• Reparations to Iraq
• Honor - or glorification?
• Is Richmond Terrace going down?
• Can the GOP do anything right???
• More budget drama - the media are piling on
• Dress Code for Success
• Prevailing wage rates - a menace to municipalities

• Repair the fiscal mess - however long it takes
• When you're in the muck, get the heck out
• Discrimination vs. personal responsibility
• Is your legislator a moonlighter?
• The dumbing down of education
• Does anybody out there care about this PAC stuff?
• Dr. Kagen and transparency
• Dr. Kagen won't follow his own prescription
• It's not Doyle's good looks that bring in the big bucks
• Green Bay, taxpayers are watching....
• EXACTLY why Healthy Wisconsin won't save money
• News Snippets
• How much do you pay your local garbage collector?
• SiCKO is research for Health Insurance Forum
• Kagen scams the system
• Is Tim Hanna vulnerable?
• At what point exactly does personal responsibility kick in?
• Brats and Healthy Wisconsin
• Do we need 117 new prosecutors?
• Menasha money going up in steam
• Vice President Tommy
• More church picnics - and beer
• ALWAYS question a survey

• Those Catholic summer picnics
• The Farm Bill - like making sausage
• When is a pig not a pig?
• When Torinus says ALL IN, he means ALL IN
• Ziegelbauer hears constituents behind him....
• Because the rooster crows, the sun will rise. Dumb.
• Lower costs BEFORE we offer universal coverage
• Riverfront access - at what price?
• Everybody's budget is screwed up
• So, are teachers exempt from Healthy Wisconsin?
• We demand - and lo and behold, the state spends
• Earth to Dems: Name calling doesn't do it
• Wow. Did AT&T go too far - and get caught?
• Thrivent's out, you and I are IT
• Tough decisions in Assembly budget - but not enough
• The courage to be independent from father King, from father government
• Wow. Large insurer pulls arts funding
• Frank Lasee a candidate for the 8th?

• Wieckert, Kaufert targeted by Dems
• The Recycling [Slush] Fund - the rest of the story
• Short Takes
• The Recycling Slush Fund is alive and slushing
• Blinders don't make for good budgets
• The city doesn't have a clue? Unbelievable.
• The globe is warming, the globe is warming!
• A city code that's really stupid
• Uninsured drivers.... grrrr
• Appleton makes a deal with the devil
• Wisconsin earmark-itis
• This is the real America
• That's IT - show Karl Rove he's wrong
• Your turn to dream about the riverfront...
• The budget: ONE fiscally conservative position
• A love-hate relationship with transit
• New police chief survived a gauntlet
• Rep. Kagen runs far afield of the 8th for campaign bucks
• Are gas price whiners forgetting WI’s huge gas tax?
• Immigration rears an ugly head in Green Bay
• PAC expenses still a puzzle

• As gas prices rise, the panderers emerge
• Cicada Pizza - a must try
• Another nursing home bleeding red ink. Sell it now.
• It's not as easy as a "no tax increase" pledge
• The Lion lay down...
• There's no other word. Appleton is money-grabbing
• Racine: The travesty of smoke and mirrors savings
• Is health care a "right?"
• Yes Virginia, SeniorCare really IS more expensive...
• $2M wasted in Appleton
• A dangerous promise to Wisconsin's little 8th graders
• Rep. Kagen has all the answers
• Ok, so Tommy can give a loud speech
• Legislators - a deer in the headlights eeriness
• I gave my $100 at the fire station
• Boycott gas stations - that's stupid
• Jousting AASD superintendent candidates
• Wisconsin presidential primary to be held Christmas Day
• Playing fast and loose with $millions
• Appleton is in its adolescence?
• May Day tensions in the heartland

• Who's questioning Justice Prosser's character?
• FireTruck Fiasco
• Was Kitty Rail Rhoaded?
• How much will this Vice President cost?
• Will your cable bill rise or fall? Wanna bet?
• Neenah talks back
• Kagen wants to Superfund the Lower Fox
• Steve Kagen, MD - this man is EVERYWHERE
• Greenville - To grow, or not to grow
• Just what is with the Neenah Police Department?
• Brilliant idea - voters need educating
• Guest Blog: Ellis says Governor's budget is beyond repair
• Dumbest bills so far
• Deeper and deeper into the entitlement web
• Gov. Doyle proves himself a hypocrite
• Should Doyle fund SeniorCare?
• God and Mike McCabe
• Hard to believe - a deficit hawk next door
• Washington County gets an A+. Wow.
• Make your decision today on the ISSUES
• The guy who will tell it to you straight

• How much are university professors worth?
• Technical colleges spend wads of taxpayer dollars
• So what’s wrong with the UW system, you ask?
• Judicial Commission: Do it NOW
• Do they perform well with the money they have?
• Habitat for Humanity builds dreams – does the government?
• The Ziegler Case
• Legislating breastfeeding is dumb
• HPV and 6th grade girls
• Todd Berry joining me on Bader Show today
• Kagen's Das Kapital
• When more is less
• Legislature missed the mark on "budget repair"
• Guns kill.
• Easier - but not better - to play defense than offense
• Ellis on (budgeting) deceit
• Appleton West expansion goes down hard
• Does a public servant never have to say "I'm sorry?"
• Appleton West project is not about equity
• What are YOU doing to control health care costs?
• When will Doyle get hooked?
• Police and fire commissions do great service - no need to break the system

• Madison Mayor must not like dialing for dollars
• Menasha's having trouble with steam....
• Why is a moral message anathema to atheists?
• Hintz and Wells: lessons on budgeting
• Do your kids know when George Washington was born?
• Rep. Kagen: "Support our troops" - and then what?
• It's just plain expensive
• "Opportunity Budget" is pie in the sky, pie in your eye...
• Stop, stop, stop! Give me the budget – fast!!!
• Lew Burdette Was My Hero
• Please Dr. Kagen, no more fire trucks
• United Way, say hello to the Boy Scouts
• Common sense (at) Justice
• Appleton West - ludicrous conclusions
• How simple. Just tell me what you pols do all day.
• Kagen wasted no time paying himself back
• Should counties be in the nursing home business?

• Lots of ideas. No money.
• The Cigarette Tax - "Poor Policy Instrument?"
• School budget Lite?
• Frankenstein - not in the library, but in the legislature
• A librarian, a legislator, a president
• $1.25/pack - NO, NO, NO, and NO
• Kagen and Reagan in the same breath?
• Menasha: behind the 8-ball, but not biting the dust
• Any way you slice it, Wisconsin government wants (further) in on health care
• The World is Flat...what about health care?
• The PAC - too precious to fail. Day 3
• News follow-ups: Appleton West, Kagen at the White House
• Fox Cities PAC - too precious to fail - Day 2
• Fox Cities PAC - too precious to fail
• New Transit Tax coming your way
• Rep. Petri has his finger in the dike - I guess
• AASD Retirement Costs Burdensome
• Health care, health care, health care, health care
• Water rate increase was no slam dunk
• Education for all is just a bad dream
• New Year's resolutions from a parade snob

• Finding your way - Tourism and shopping!
• Televising and Franchise Taxes
• Thank you Lord, for our freedoms
• Surprise. Decisions made through the "prism" of re-election
• Citizens of Wisconsin, we are in deficit - big time.
• We're not dumb. Talk to us.
• The Inauguration and the Boys and Girls Club
• Property Tax Pabulum
• Franchise fee agreement cost taxpayers $600k
• Take the "PCB Plunge!"
• Our community has a decision to make
• A politician is a good person?
• "Blame the government" is a stupid thing to say
• Can capitalism drive the public sector?
• Lobbying is not a bad thing
• Yes Virginia, the budget is not in balance
• Why do we always lose the good ones?
• YOU - (WE) - ARE the government!

• Bash Jack Voight? Enought already!
• Doyle - ethics reform? You've got to be kidding me
• Do you know what a GEM car is?
• The "tidal wave" roared in Wisconsin
• It's the tax levy, stupid......
• Appleton's "I want it" syndrome
• So Why Is Tommy Doing It?
• A politician that knows how to say "I was wrong."
• Same old, same old Assembly?
• Trust but ALWAYS verify - especially when rates are up 64%!
• What does it mean if your alderman missed a few tax payments?
• Overpromised and overspent
• Voting your principles - then and now
• Mrs. Robinson: heaven holds a place for... Jim Doyle?
• Negative campaigning is our fault - AND is ours to fix
• Do you know where your children are? Always?

• Does the 5th safest area in the country need more officers?
• Good governing means talking to each other
• Taxpayers - always pick apart the numbers
• New Jersey Constitution has no marriage amendment
• Not our business to be in the nursing home business
• The winds of change, they are a-blowin'
• Gannett: Liberal bastion in a sea of red ink?
• Geez - take one for the Gipper and do the right thing
• Kaufert has his hands full - and may not be back
• Do they need the money?
• What is a "more violent terrorist?"
• Forgiveness - a better world, a better community?
• Why are elected officials paid those big bucks? (hmm..)
• Winnebago Cty Board - how do you like being threatened?
• City is on the hook for a bad loan
• The anatomy of a budget - a quickie
• It's budget time - do you know where YOUR wallet is?
• Your freedom of speech - or my country, my democracy?
• Negative campaigning is all your fault
• No excuses allowed when public service doesn't serve

• How many stolen bicycles can be jammed in the City Hall's attic?
• Chief Myers: “[The committee] left reasonableness behind about four meetings ago.”
• Should Appleton sue The Big Picture for $1.6M?
• Doyle attorney caught red-handed lobbying Election Board

• Ellis & Cowles: Hospital tax will increase government caseloads and costs