Late last week the residents of a town in West Virginia were without clean water for several days after a chemical spill from nearby Freedom Industries. Like lots of companies, they chose to put their CEO on TV. Watching this guy talk to the media made my skin crawl. Lots...
This week's Washington Report! To sign up for the direct email, click here. Congress is back in Washington after the holiday recess, and 2014 is looking a lot like 2013. Here in Milwaukee we survived the polar vortex and are now facing “freezing fog!” Enough about the weather...here are the...
Yesterday the US Navy accidentally sent an internal memo on how to dodge a Freedom of Information Act request directly to a reporter with NBC4, the same reporter who made the FOIA request. The memo calls the reporter’s request a “fishing expedition” and that it’s “too broad.” Sending the wrong...
Capstone’s Steve Moffitt shares his thoughts on what to expect in the ten months leading up to the midterm elections. Follow him on LinkedIn. Welcome to 2014. The political pundits already have been hard at work for some time trying to figure out how past elections, political trends,...
By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel. Read the full story here. Follow @JournalSentinel on Twitter Wisconsin companies that sell products and services to the U.S. military should have more insights into fiscal 2014 now that President Barack Obama has signed the $632 billion National Defense Authorization Act into law. The new spending...
The passage of the budget deal in December 2013 showed us that Congress CAN be functional. Will 2014 be a year of continued action and cooperation… or regress to the dysfunction and gridlock we saw in 2013? We will be watching and continue to offer our insights. That said, take a...
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