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3 Years Ago
Where were YOU 3 years ago?
I was ...
John Doe: ... at work, trying to earn a living.
Mary Moe: ... still recovering from COVID.
Robin Retiree: ... home watching TV, barely believing what was going down.
Mike Pence: ... preparing to count the legally cast electoral votes for president.
Ron Johnson: ... trying to slip an envelope of fake Wisconsin ( Read more... ) -
Adequate Funding for Wisconsin's PUBLIC Schools
The following is my letter to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking them to take original jurisdiction in the case of Underwood v. Vos:
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Back in the 1980s and 1990s, when I was a budget and policy analyst for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, we took great pride in the fact that Wisconsin was a leader not only in education ( Read more... ) -
Judicial Impartiality
You’ve probably heard the commercials saying that a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice needs to be impartial, to follow the law and precedents, and to not have her or his mind made up before a case is actually heard. Those are admirable principles, and in fact that’s the way the court used to operate before its current right-wing cabal engineered the ( Read more... ) -
Self-Interest
Why do people vote against their own self-interest? Because they believe in a greater good.
Take me, for example. I’m an old white guy, now retired, a native-born, middle-class, middle American, straight, Anglo-Saxon, college-educated, law-abiding, tax-paying, monolingual gringo. The USA is optimized for people like me. I’ve spent my whole life ( Read more... ) -
The Morning after The Change
“Oh, Emily, I mean Hilda. Hi, how are you? Long time, no see. And this must be little James.”
“Ha ha, yeah, he was up until 2 AM this morning, now he’s Charles. But what brings you into the store so early today?”
“Bargain hunting. I know the clerks were up all night changing the prices and packaging, but they always miss a few, and I was looking ( Read more... ) -
On Gerrymandering
Under the US Constitution, the federal government conducts a nation-wide census in every year divisible by 10 (most recently 2020, pandemic or no). And in the year or two after that, when the census results are available, every state in the nation is required to readjust the boundaries of its various electoral districts, for everything from city ( Read more... )
