The case of the Boulder Junction Town Board gets curiouser and curiouser.
The most intriguing question is, why are the town board supervisors - chairman Dennis Reuss and supervisors Denny McGann and Wes Johnson - so afraid of the people who elect them? (Subscriber Access) Friday, April 20, 2018
For months, the White House has insistently whined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is persecuting the president. (subscriber access) Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Shortly after Hawaii and Alaska joined the Union and I was still a semi-young wiseguy, smugly sure that a celebrity candidate whose prospective campaign had sparked public interest would become a serious White House challenger, a grizzled political reporter brought me up short with this practical advice: "If a candidate gets measurably louder applause from the crowd when he's introduced to speak than he does when he's finished speaking, that candidate is overrated and will not be a winner." (subscriber access) Tuesday, April 24, 2018
There is an old saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and we've learned that again with the Congressional Budget Office and its latest highly misleading fiscal forecast. (Subscriber Access) Friday, April 20, 2018
The White House is seriously considering a strategy to cancel tens of billions of dollars of wasteful spending in the $1.3 trillion budget signed by President Donald Trump last month. Tuesday, April 17, 2018
The election night words of the long-shot Republican candidate after his upset victory remain with me to this day: "I learned long ago that serving only oneself is a petty and unsatisfying ambition. Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Whenever Donald Trump fires a member of his administration, the least likely reason is incompetence, corruption, abuse of authority or wasteful extravagance. Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Soda will cost you more in Philadelphia, Seattle, Boulder, Colorado, and a bunch of California cities because politicians in those places voted to tax it. Tuesday, April 10, 2018
In Boulder Junction these days, we know the town board has broken the open-meetings law at least once - it was convicted of illegally discussing the town clerk's compensation in closed session and then paying her $8,700 illegally - but, sadly, that is not even the worst offense that trio of would-be monarchs committed. Friday, April 6, 2018
Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade?
Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his threat of stiff tariffs and renegotiated trade deals. Friday, April 6, 2018
Successful politicians, those who have won election and re-election to office, almost always have an extra olfactory nerve that somehow endows them with the ability to smell which way the political winds will blow in a given election year - and whether a gale-force blast is forming that might sweep them out of office in November. Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Several months ago, when the GOP-controlled Congress passed a $1.4-trillion tax cut, we opined that America could be on the verge of a golden era of prosperity - that we could be on the verge of making America great again. Friday, March 30, 2018
Hillary Clinton is being universally panned by Republicans and Democrats for her recent rant against people who voted for Donald Trump. Friday, March 30, 2018
Donald Trump is producing the kind of shoot-the-moon economic recovery that we last saw under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. (1 comments) Tuesday, March 27, 2018
President Trump's pick to be the new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, is not a fan of the Paris climate agreement, the treaty that claims it will slow global warning by reducing the world's carbon dioxide emissions. Tuesday, March 27, 2018
The temperatures are rising, the ice is melting (here comes the sun, we say) and so there ought to be a spring in your step and a dance in your heart as we race ever closer to the month of April. (1 comments) Friday, March 23, 2018
Late afternoon in the summer of 2016 I was giving my little dog a walk up and down the empty sidewalks of Boulder Junction. The stores were closed and few cars were parked at the curbs. From behind me came words that chilled me to the bone. "I'm going to kill you and then I'm going to kill your f------ dog." (6 comments) Friday, March 23, 2018
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed by their own trade barriers, will eliminate them. Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Recently, Donald Trump dialed back his earlier call for a punitive and blanket tariff on imported steel and aluminum. Good decision. Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The leaders of two of Wisconsin's most well-known leftie groups were scratching and shaking their heads this past week with the news that the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council had awarded Gov. Scott Walker its 2018 Political Openness Award. (2 comments) Friday, March 16, 2018
In honor of Sunshine Week - a celebration and advocacy of open government - The Lakeland Times presents the newspaper's 2018 awards and grades for openness in conducting public business. (1 comments) Friday, March 16, 2018
In honor of Sunshine Week - a celebration and advocacy of open government - The Lakeland Times presents the newspaper's 2018 awards and grades for openness in conducting public business.
In honor of Sunshine Week - a celebration and advocacy of open government - The Lakeland Times presents the newspaper's 2018 awards and grades for openness in conducting public business. Friday, March 16, 2018
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the first time in a long while." (2 comments) Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Yet another incident of mass violence, this time a deadly shooting in Parkland, Fla., has set off a predictable wave of political grandstanding, as, sadly, politicians in both parties rush to use the tragedy for their own partisan gain. (1 comments) Friday, March 9, 2018
HAVANA - The presidency of Donald Trump is teaching millions of Cubans - along with people around the world - to see the United States as a symbol of disappointment rather than hope. Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Like many other Americans, I have been impressed with the poise, passion and guts of the Florida teenagers who survived the latest big school shooting, as well as that of their student allies in other cities who walked out of class, took to the streets and/or confronted government officials to demand that they take meaningful action to reduce gun violence. Tuesday, March 6, 2018
This has been a colder-than-usual winter in the Midwest and Northeast, so many Americans are facing high home heating and electric bills. In some areas, these bills can reach $1,000 a month. (1 comments) Friday, March 2, 2018
Congressional Republicans have been raked over the coals recently for slamming through budget caps and inflating government spending and debt by another $300 billion. (1 comments) Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Politics can be both cruel and unsentimental. Consider the case of Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., known on Capitol Hill - since his first election to Congress in 1972 - for his civil and amiable treatment of others, irrespective of party, and, as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, for securing federal billions for his small, poor state. Tuesday, February 27, 2018
One day, one of these shutdowns should be permanent. We would still have far more government than the Founding Fathers envisioned. Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Nothing is more fashionable these days on the Republican right than to trash America's law enforcement and intelligence services. (1 comments) Tuesday, January 30, 2018
The new numbers on autism prevalence are alarming - according to a national survey of more than 30,000 families, 1 in 36 U.S. children have been diagnosed with autism - and they are yet another urgent call for our elected leaders to take action. (subscriber access)
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