Public/Private Sector Compensation Bakeoff (NYT ‘Dunno’ Edition)
More grist for the salary mill, via Saturday’s New York Times: In Battle Over State Payrolls, Data Show a Mixed Picture The janitors who buff floors and empty wastebaskets for the State of California...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Realizes A Lifelong Dream
Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show Monday night featured an interview with Wisconsin state Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-umb). Yes, Erpenbach actually said “off the record” on live television (around 7:42 of the...
View ArticlePeggy Noodnik Gets It Right
Peggy Noonan routinely misfires in her Wall Street Journal column, but this week she’s entirely on target in her piece about the public-union rumpus currently raging from Wisconsin to New Jersey....
View ArticlePublic/Private Sector Compensation Bakeoff (Karl Rove Edition)
Just before the Banana Republic of Wisconsin eliminated both collective bargaining rights and voting rights, deep-pockets political action committee Crossroads GPS, a wholly owned subsidiary of...
View ArticleWGBH=Workers Get Big Hatin’
The Wisconsin public employee unions may have felt the love during the Cheeseheads Held Hostage standoff, but it’s quite the opposite for the WGBH union (Association of Employees of the Educational...
View ArticleRachel Maddow Gets The Gift That Keeps On Giving
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was fairly bustin’ her buttons Tuesday night when she introduced a segment tagged “Search Me,” which detailed Freedom Of Information Act requests that targeted labor studies...
View ArticleLet The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Twofer Edition)
The Geezerati are always in season during an election year, and this one is no exception. Especially spry is AARP, which has launched yet another ad campaign to tell politicians, Don’t make us stop...
View ArticleMitt Romney Is More Tin-Eared Than Jack Haley
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via Politico’s Morning Score): Talking by conference call with thousands of Wisconsin voters Wednesday, Mitt Romney told them he had a humorous connection to their...
View ArticleFemale Sportswriters (Finally) Get A Face At The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal was Rachel Bachman’s cotillion as the first featured female sportswriter at the paper. Start out with her front-page A-Hed: Who’s No. 1 in College Football Is a...
View ArticleThat’s Just So Mean! (Hillary Clinton Edition III)
From BuzzFeed: Ron Johnson: Hillary Clinton Planned To Get Emotional To Evade Questions “I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and...
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