You may have heard that the prime contractor for the infamous Obamacare web portal healthcare.gov, that earned hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a non-functional website wasn’t even experienced in developing web portals and yet the Obama administration chose […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Republican governors are beginning to cave on the implementation of expanded Medicaid eligibility and some of the names are quite disappointing. The first governor to roll over was Ohio Governor John Kasich. Kasich, a noted deficit hawk during his time […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not so many years ago there was an explosion in cigar smoking that led to numerous cigar clubs opening across the U.S.; this year, 2013, may be the year of the pot club. North of downtown Denver a new type […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The state most closely identified with the unionization of America, Michigan, may well be the next state to adopt a “right-to-work” law, making the payment of union dues voluntary. Today Republican Governor Rick Snyder said he would now support Michigan […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So what do you do if you’re the governor of a state so deep in debt that it surpasses the debt of 32 countries, with unfunded mandates in the billions of dollars? Do you address the weak economy or the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress he said, “Pass this jobs bill, and thousands of teachers in every state will go back to work.” The president assumes that there are thousands of teachers that should go […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 recognized the rights of employees to be represented by unions in negotiations involving employee compensation and workplace conditions. The law also formed the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to adjudicate complaints as to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue of North Carolina did something that no governor of North Carolina has ever done before: she vetoed the state’s budget plan. Perdue in a statement Sunday said the Legislature’s proposal would do “generational damage” to public […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After 14 Wisconsin state senators hid in Illinois for weeks on end, the Legislature and Governor found a way to push through the law to limit collective bargaining rights for state workers by removing any spending from the bill. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a lot of hubbub going on in Wisconsin after the state senate and today, the state assembly, passed a law restricting public union collective bargaining rights. Members on both sides of the aisle in Wisconsin are being attacked with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…