We’re about to embark on a plan that gives the largest government payoff to a private corporation in the history of state government.

Wisconn Valley is a con; it’s an anchor around the necks of taxpayers and further starves our schools, our roads and our economy for decades.

When the Joint Finance Committee voted, along party lines, to give Foxconn the right to directly appeal any lower court order straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and to have that order suspended until the high court rules on it, the legislature was entering very dubious legal waters.

Rustbelt jobs have steadily declined since 1990. State should look elsewhere for answers.

Wisconsin’s model for educating special needs children is outdated, lagging far behind other states, and does a disservice to parents.

They’re Walker’s most successful economic development program. So why would he cut them?

The mysterious group behind it failed miserably. Why?

A last-minute financial obstruction thrown by GOP budget-writers yesterday at the City of Milwaukee’s streetcar and home rule powers made perfect sense inside the right-wing echo chamber and fossil-fuel/road-building funding combine that passes for a major political party these days.

It makes no sense that after the over-the-top accommodations already promised to Foxconn, we would allow the company to bypass controls designed to mitigate flood and pollution disasters. It makes no sense from a moral perspective, or a financial one.

The Legislature’s vetting of the Foxconn deal should and will continue, but no one should be fooled into thinking nations, states and communities don’t compete every day. Rather than wishing away such competition, it’s mainly about calculating certain risks for uncertain rewards.

The 2.7 economic multiplier is absurdly high. Here’s why.

What passed in JFC is nothing short of a most extraordinary legal device which would allow for Foxconn lawsuits to not head to appeal trial courts but rather get directly moved to the state Supreme Court. The move is not well-reasoned and allows for a thumb to be placed on the scales of justice.

Environmental issues has almost disappeared from the public debate, except when large scale projects come to the fore, like the proposed, but now defunct, GeoTac iron mine in Northwestern Wisconsin or the pending Foxconn manufacturing plant in Southeastern Wisconsin.

The US has horribly moved from overly optimistic hope into morass and cynicism.

If Trump’s ultimatum to Congress gets the House and Senate to approve a legal framework for determining who stays and who goes, it actually will have been a success.

For a hundred years, Wisconsinites traveled a long journey to keep a minimum living wage. Now is it’s our turn to take up the struggle and advocate for our neighbors and friends.

Two young Assembly reps in each party, two very different tales.

Our self-destructive tax code costs Americans millions of jobs, trillions of dollars and billions of hours spent on compliance and paperwork.

We need leaders who will stop picking Washington over Wisconsin and lead the way on real reform that will cut taxes, simplify the tax code and unleash the economy nationwide just like we’ve done here.

It’s ironic that here we are on Labor Day where, while state legislators and the governor can’t bring themselves to give a boost to the lowest paid among us, they are about to OK nearly $3 billion in assistance to a huge corporate conglomerate with a history of awful labor relations.