WPRI Columns

February 15, 2010 -Are All “Special Interests” Created Equal?

February 1, 2010 -Revenge of the Nerd – Why Paul Ryan can be our Next President

January 4, 2010 -Rhetoric on Steroids: When Political Posturing Gets to be Too Much, We Should Look at Ourselves in the Mirror

November 23, 2009 -“Mommy, What Does a Union Member Look Like?”

November 9, 2009 – You Paid for This: In Dire Economic Times, Wisconsin Lawmakers Spend Millions to Improve their Public Image

September 28, 2009 – Wisconsin’s Own “Public Option”

August 17, 2009 – Governor Doyle’s Successors: Who Got the Gravy?

July 30, 2009 – The Power of the Pen – and Why Property Taxes Might Not Be So Bad

June 29, 2009 – America’s Newest Pastime – Blissful Ignorance

June 15, 2009 – McCallum’s Last Laugh

June 1, 2009 – Government’s Billion Dollar Word

May 4, 2009 – Cross Your Fingers and Hope For the Worst?

April 20, 2009 – The Power of “Hello”

April 6, 2009 – Governor on a Wire: Jim Doyle’s Balancing Act

March 23, 2009 – Observing the Law of Rule

February 23, 2009 – An Apology From the Distant Past

February 9, 2009 – The Forgotten Cheesehead

January 12, 2009 – Spend Less Taxpayer Money, Get Healthier

December 16, 2008 – Felons for Thee, Not for Me

December 3, 2008 – Outsourcing State Government

November 13, 2008 – Democrats in Wisconsin: Not Going Anywhere?

October 23, 2008 – Having a Gay Time in Milwaukee

October 9, 2008 – Wisconsin’s Bogus Invisible Hand

September 22, 2008 – The GAB’s Slimy Underbelly

September 5, 2008 – The GOP’s Trojan Horse

August 18, 2008 – The Fonzie Statue: Are Happy Days Here Again?

July 21, 2008 – Is Obama the Hero We “Need?”

July 8, 2008 – Standing Up For Your Right to Dry

June 26, 2008 – Handicapping the State Legislature

June 9, 2008 – How Jim Doyle Can Save Wisconsin’s Republican Party

May 19, 2008 – Grand Old Patriarchy: Whither the Republican Women?

May 5, 2008 – Public Libraries: No Longer Just for the Literate

April 21, 2008 – The Good Ol’ Days of Mudslinging

April 11, 2008 – The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board: Growing Like a Weed

March 27, 2008 – The Wisconsin Legislature’s Putrid Present

March 13, 2008 – Hate George W?  You Should Be a Conservative

March 6, 2008 – Electing Judges: Save Us From the Horrors of Democracy

January 10, 2008 – Leveling the Presidential Playing Field

December 20, 2007 – The Government Protection Racket

December 3, 2007 – Want to Pass a Bill?  Get a Good Mascot

November 5, 2007 – When Government is Bad, it’s Even Better

October 25, 2007 – Pledging Allegiance to Higher Taxes

September 17, 2007 – Business: Victims of Their Own Success?

September 6, 2007 – The Minimum Drinking Age: What Price Freedom?

August 27, 2007 – Fire Your Legislators

August 16, 2007 – You, Too, Can Be a Wisconsin Liberal

August 6, 2007 – The Government Crackdown on “Big Babysitting”

July 22, 2007 – Wisconsin Law Throws Michael Vick a Bone

July 10, 2007 – Where Rhetoric and Governance Diverge

June 21, 2007 – Lead Our Lawmakers Not Into Temptation

June 4, 2007 – The Battle for the Liberal Conscience

May 3, 2007 – Two Tickets to Club Fed

April 9, 2007 – Is Health Care the Democrats’ TABOR?

March 26, 2007 – Dancing on a Volcano

March 8, 2007 – Poor Stewardship of Tax Money

February 26, 2007 – Not-So Compelling Tax Increases

February 5, 2007 – The Wisconsin Campaign Finance Mystery

WI Magazine Pieces

November, 2009 -Mommy, What Does a Union Member Look Like?

July, 2009 – Bring on the Stats Nerds: State government needs a good dose of sabermetrics.

March, 2009 – Why Conservatives Like Me Are So… Negative!