Line item veto cuts both ways

Taxpayers do not have bottomless pockets. People who routinely deal with buying and selling emergency equipment like ambulances and fire engines frequently forget this fact. This is especially true when it comes to the medical side of emergency services, where the astronomical costs of modern medical care bleeds into perceptions of what is affordable, fiscally responsible or even economically f...

The State of Wisconsin would rather play political games than actually help veterans in need. The closure of two residences that serve long-term care needs of veterans is a mark of shame on the state and a slap in the face to all those who served their country. In what seemed, at the time, to be signs of ushering in a new era of bipartisan cooperation, last July the state passed a new biennial ...

Let’s think about things our parents said we should never utter a word about: money, religion, and politics. Do you feel like they are filling our societal needs? From a historical and sociological perspective, money, religion and politics are all human constructs that have evolved over time. They were not discovered as objective truths, like the laws of physics, so we could say that we imagine ...