By M.D. Kittle — In a performance worthy of Hugo’s Les Miserables, Democrats on the Legislature’s powerful budget-writing committee on Tuesday cried poverty for a University of Wisconsin System with a total budget of $6.37 billion. Read More Republicans Reject Dems’ Poverty Act For UW System
Milwaukee liberals have “lead” their constituents to believe that legislative Republicans are to blame for the city’s lead pipes problem. The fix to Milwaukee’s drinking water crisis, they insist, is more state taxpayer money. But liberals and socialists have controlled the city of Milwaukee for the better part of a century. And while Milwaukee’s citizens wait for clean drinking water, its mayor is fixated on an expensive streetcar. Read More MacIver News Minute: Leftist Milwaukee Leaders Ignored Lead Pipe Problem For Decades
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos applauds the City of Madison for replacing all privately owned lead lateral pipes on its own, and wonders why City of Milwaukee needs a handout from state taxpayers to do the same. Read More Milwaukee Tries To Pass The Buck On Lead Pipe Replacement
By M.D. Kittle – Five years after Flint, Mich., Milwaukee city officials are scurrying to catch up in the heat of public pressure, scandal, and increased scrutiny. Liberal city leaders, in control of Milwaukee for generations, could have done something a lot sooner. Read More Who’s To Blame For The Failure To Fix Milwaukee’s Lead Problem? Look Left
By M.D. Kittle – In blasting Republicans on Thursday for axing Medicaid expansion from Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal, Democrats on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee showed their hand again. The massive spending plan is built on a house of cards, with “free” federal Medicaid money as its wobbly foundation. Read More Republican-Led Budget Committee Cuts Evers’ Medicaid Expansion Plan