Today’s edition of madison.com featured an article about adding more wind capacity to Wisconsin’s power grid. The article is a transcript of a report run during the local news, and is at the level of detail appropriate to that forum:
Local environmentalists want to tap into Wisconsin’s wind energy potential. They say wind could power the [...]

I don’t know how I feel about the “compromise” bill yet, and I hope to have more to say on it later.
On the one hand, I obviously agree with Feingold’s stand against a funding bill without deadlines, and not with the leadership’s decision to give into the president.
On the other hand, while I think [...]

Apologizes for thinking that employers should be able to fire people for being gay: “I misinterpreted the question… It’s not my position and there should be no discrimination in the work place and I believe that.”

Is bragging that he has vetoed nineteen hundred “things”. He’s probably counting letters, words, and punctuation marks.

Apparently thinks it’s okay to fire people for being gay.

Savings from opening up the Great Lakes to ocean-going traffic total about $55 million each year. The cost for dealing with just two of the 183 invasive species introduced by salt-water ballast — zebra and quagga mussels — is estimated at $2 billion.
Dan Egan, at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has a very good article on [...]

Via Barry and Tom comes news of Tommy Thompson’s announcement that, er, he likes money, just like the Jews. Republican Self-Immolation Watch, indeed.
I seem to recall him liking money when he was in office, too. A 10-second Google search on Tommy! leads to a lengthy multi-part series in the MJS with such headlines as [...]

We went hiking at Devil’s Lake yesterday, and one of the things that stood out was the sign on the chateau, that I hadn’t noticed before. It read something like (quoting from memory): “Consumption of malt beverages and liquor prohibited”. I’ve seen parks where alcohol is prohibited before, but I’ve never seen one that carved [...]

Remember all the nonsense about voter fraud in Milwaukee? From the New York Times:
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is [...]

After Linda Clifford lost big in the primary, I wondered if we could come up with an effective argument in favor of progressive liberalism, and against strict constructionism:
But there are important issues about the rights of citizens to petition the government; about civil rights versus majority rule; and about the freedom of action available to [...]

Oh please, give me a break. Annette Ziegler will not be a good Supreme Court justice. She’s displayed extremely poor judgment in her current job. She’s guilty of professional misconduct. Her “gut check” rationale for ignoring the rules and ethical canons of her profession is pathetic. All of those things are reasons not to vote [...]

Thank you for your continued work on behalf of Republican candidates in the state. It was partly because of you that Mark Green, a random and relatively unobjectionable candidate, ran a laughably inept campaign and was defeated by an unpopular governor in a landslide. Congratulations on deciding to contest that election on the grounds of [...]

It’s a bad sign when the answer to that question isn’t Yes. Annette Ziegler’s ethical troubles continue. Today, the Wisconsin State Journal reports on Ziegler’s effort to avoid responsibility for her decisions.
In two campaign stops Monday, Supreme Court candidate Annette Ziegler repeatedly defended her choice as a circuit judge to preside over dozens of cases [...]

The repeated ethical problems and charges of professional misconduct plaguing Annette Ziegler’s campaign for the Supreme Court might be gaining some traction:
State Supreme Court candidate Annette Ziegler ruled as a Washington County judge on dozens of cases brought by a bank that her husband helps run.
Despite judicial rules that say judges must step aside in [...]

I was generally happy with the results Tuesday, but what the hell happened to Linda Clifford’s campaign?
It’s not just the money thing (since when have we not be outspent by Republicans?), although that was part of it. The libertarian, anti-tax group Grover Norquist’s Club for Growth, and other conservative interest groups spent heavily on the [...]