The game of chicken over the state budget continued Friday, but the sides have changed.

Over the past weeks the narrative about the agenda that Ryan now is pressing down on, following the most embarrassing flop of health care reform, shows a number of problems.

But without the FM translator, Mike Crute’s “Resistance Radio” station will likely have a smaller audience and less value in the marketplace.

The repeal-replace rhetoric was absurd with Obama in office and it remains a bigger absurdity today as the ACA has taken hold and helped far more Americans than claim damage despite the drumbeat of GOP ads.

There are at least three clear major reasons that Wisconsin should not raise the gas tax at this time.

Amazing how many good ideas and solid public services these anti-transit Republicans have derailed.

Ten Wisconsin donors contributed more than $1 million to a group headed by Republican Gov. Scott Walker that raises unlimited amounts of cash from special interests to elect GOP candidates for governor nationwide.

A person who is happily retired from public office has a lot more freedom to suggest solutions than officials who are still in the arena. Here are my unpleasant but honest suggestions.

We need to stop pretending the Political establishment is most qualified to lead us.

In the economy of the next few decades, merely holding on to Wisconsin natives will not suffice. We need lots of people, especially younger people, to start moving to our fair state permanently (and not just to Madison).

The logical approach is to raise the gasoline tax, though Walker’s self imposed tax denial and Fitzgerald’s enabler tendencies have prevented that.

The record under Walker — and before him, former Governor Jim Doyle — shows what happens when reasonable limits are ignored.

There are two words that characterize every budget in the City of Milwaukee since Tom Barrett became mayor: borrow and spend.

With at least five states bidding for the work and a governor eager to burnish his cred as a job creator as an election approaches, there is a real risk of “overpaying.” Walker needs to be ready to walk away.

That the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut the door on the John Doe investigation in the absence of any testimony or factual findings is indicative of the collapse of the analytical process upon which the justice system relies.

Senate Republicans are breaking out the credit card to borrow more hundreds of millions of dollars and stick our grandkids with the bill. Remember when Republicans sold themselves as fiscal conservatives?

Now one of the professed goals of the GOP is to reduce health care costs. None of the bills they’ve proposed have done anything to address health care costs.

Three Plott hounds have been reported by the Department of Natural Resources to have been thrown to the wolves by their owners between July 15-17.