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Those of you who read this column regularly may have taken notice that now and then I opine in favor of paying college athletes. Well. Okay. Fine. It seems like I do that every other week.  But that’s only because the gods of college sports keep feeding me more evidence. The latest piece is theContinue reading “Add the Ducks, Add the Bucks”

In a leading candidate for least surprising story of the year, Ellen Nowak took a senior position with the American Transmission Company.  That was predictable because Nowak is recently gone from the Wisconsin Public Service Commission. The cozy relationship between the regulators and the regulated was recounted in a recent story in the Wisconsin StateContinue reading “Cozy PSC-Utility Ties Continue”

Former State Street business owner Janice Durand has written a memoir that will keep you turning pages whether or not you care about the ups and downs of small businesses or of State Street. It’s a book that will capture your interest if you care about life, which makes it appealing to a fairly broadContinue reading “It Was Magic”

Over the last week I’ve been heavily critical of the new liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It looks to me as if they sacked a perfectly competent courts administrator to put in place their own political appointee, loyal to them. But now they’ve done some things that are worth praising. They’ve changed aContinue reading “Liberal Justices Do Some Good Stuff”

The liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has gotten itself off to a disastrous start. They’ve dug themselves a hole and they just keep digging.  On their very first day in power the four liberals fired what appears to be a perfectly competent, low-profile public servant. Courts administrator Randy Koschnick was sacked without explanation.Continue reading “They Keep Digging”

Here’s an optimistic view of America: only 20% of us are crazy. I reach this happy conclusion in rough — and perhaps unreliable — fashion, but hey, any port in a storm, people. Here’s how my reasoning goes. According to a recent Gallup poll, we are evenly split between those who identify as Republican andContinue reading “8 of 10 Americans Are Sane”

Liberals took over the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday and promptly stepped on their own story. The first action of the new 4-3 liberal majority was to engage in a senseless partisan witch hunt. They fired the state’s courts administrator because they could and, apparently, because he’s a conservative. Never mind that his job has nothingContinue reading “A Bad Start”

The headline on the Wall Street Journal editorial page this morning read, Climate Change Obsession is a Real Mental Disorder. I confess to not having read this oped. But cut me some slack. Time is short and would you bother with a story whose headline read The Earth is Flat After All or Trump isContinue reading “On Climate Who’s Really Nuts?”

Be careful what you wish for. Democratic strategists really want Pres. Joe Biden to have a rematch with Donald Trump next year. I don’t think it’s worth the risk. The hope that we might live in a post-Trump world is fading — maybe only Jack Smith can save us now. I reach that conclusion afterContinue reading “Do Dems Really Want Trump?”

Elon Musk wants to shoot down the gentle little bird. The new owner of the thing formerly known as Twitter wants to remake it in his own image. He likes the letter X and so he wants to rebrand Twitter as that. Here’s a good question: why? If you were Coke why would you wantContinue reading “Is Elon Okay?”