Just Desserts: Walker’s Presidential Announcement
Editors Claire Hanan and Matt Hrodey chat about what life was like in the sweltering heat of the overflow tent at Scott Walker’s presidential announcement in Waukesha.
The Conservative Case Against Scott Walker’s Budget
Whether it’s because he’s playing to a national stage or advancing costly policies, Gov. Walker’s budget is not truly conservative.
The Bucks Arena and the Big Question
The question of publicly financing a new Downtown arena has a simple answer. But the question being asked in Milwaukee is more complex.
If Milwaukee Were a Movie, Here’s What it Would be About
Our vision of a Brew City blockbuster, as directed by Michael Bay.
Afternoon Links for March 24, 2015
Playgrounds, John Menard Jr.’s moola, and a four-legged publicity machine.
Morning Links for March 17, 2015
Not all streetcars are born equal, Walker’s tax increase, and a magical banking app.
Morning Links for Feb. 3, 2015
New Harper Lee novel, high-end dumpster diving and more!
The Aftermath
On a Thursday morning three and a half years ago, readers of the Wall Street Journal opened their newspapers to find Gov. Scott Walker’s byline on an article defending his first big legislative initiative. The night before, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature had passed the bill – rewritten to remove a procedural roadblock so they could act without 14 state Senate Democrats who had bolted from Wisconsin nearly three weeks earlier to stall the vote. On that Thursday, the bill would go to Walker for his signature. Headlined “Why I’m Fighting in Wisconsin,” the article began: In 2010, Megan Sampson was…
Poker Face
hen controversy starts to close in, Gov. Scott Walker gets the heck out of Madison. This was a key strategy during the furor over Act 10 – his legislation hobbling most public sector unions in the state – and he used it again in late February, after a court let slip a document dump with the potential to flatten whatever ambitions he harbored for higher office, or even re-election. Soon, every other political reporter in the country was paging casually, madly or curiously through some 27,000 emails collected during the first John Doe probe to investigate Walker allies and associates…
The Scott Walker Newspaper Video Gang Rush
Scott Walker MIGHT run for president, and, if so, he might have to answer questions about immigration. And during an interview with the Wausau Daily Herald, he previewed what his answers MIGHT sound like. “People [who] want to come here and work hard in America – I don’t care where they come from, Mexico or Canada or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else – I want them here,” he told the newspaper in a video that makes a nice supplement to the editorial board chit chat also released today, by the Journal Sentinel. “To me,” he says, “if people want to…