Results tagged with 'government'
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Published March 26, 2013
One of the truths of private sector business is that not all of the effects of a recession are bad. It allows businesses to "trim the fat." The owner's nephew that shows up late once a month for the last three years will be let go. Employees that aren't hard working, reliable or trustworthy are downsized. Companies will look everywhere for ideas on cutting back on expenses and spending. Employees are cross trained and will end up doing more work with fewer resources. Companies will necessarily purge redundancies in order to save money, enhance margins and grow profits.
Published July 20, 2012
Southeastern Wisconsin business executives are more optimistic about the direction of their companies in the second half of the year than they were when the year began, according to the latest BizTimes Business Dashboard Survey.
Published May 3, 2012
The author has been driving a wide variety of cars on the streets of Milwaukee for over half a century and he has never, ever seen the streets so bad.
Published Nov. 7, 2011
That belief has been shaken to its very core and I've come to the conclusion that we might be a whole lot better off with almost no government at all.
Published April 25, 2006
Visit any large city in America and you can expect to see an efficient, modern and innovative transportation system in action. Simply put, Milwaukee isn't delivering. But it could ... and here's how you can help.
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Monday May 28th, 2012 – Fox Lake, IL War…Huh…Good God y’all. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Edwin Starr said it best, and I wholeheartedly concur with those sentiments – even though he didn’t write the song. It was written by Norman ...
We have been here before and it is never a fun ride. The last shutdown cost the taxpayers about $800 million in wages. During the shutdown of 1995, 800,000 non-essential workers were furloughed, without pay. The chance that the gov't will have a shutdown is pretty stressful to p...
Monday July 4th, 2011 - Cary, IL Independence Day. That could mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Funny is the beast called man, as we never seem to be satisfied. When we’re constricted, we want to be free. When we get free, we crave structure. Is there a happy medium? I&rs...
I've been on several dates with Scott Walker recently, but we haven't actually slept together yet.
Take one day last week for example. After getting my daughter off to school, the dog walked and then bathed from the gritty spring thaw clinging to his underbelly, I drive down to a loc...
[The author is a Louisville attorney who has practiced for 30 years, the first 6 ½ of those as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Counsel to then Jefferson County, Kentucky Executive (now US Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell, and ever since in the &nb...
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