On Residents speak out against hiking Janesville school tax
Posted on October 14 at 12:01 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Why would anyone blame Governor Walker for any of this? He runs the State, not the Janesville school system for Cripe's sake. Here's the deal: the School Board didn't get tough when they had the chance - right before our last Governor's election they made a new contract w/da Union. They KNEW FULL WELL that no matter who won there was gonna be less money. Governor Walker's opponent, Tom Barrett, went around saying if he got in he was gonna "put state government on a diet." Well, just WHAT did anyone think THAT meant? C'mon.....let's get real here. And since when is state money free money anyway? We just send our mney to Madison so they can send it back to us. Brilliant..... But back to Governor Walker: the budget problems of Janesville's school system have exactly zero to do with the Governor - he didn't make their budget, or negotiate their contracts. The budget problems have everything to do w/the Board and the Superintendent for failure to plan ahead and for failure to recognize what was coming down the pike no matter who got in.
On New position created to root out Medicaid fraud
Posted on October 7 at 12:47 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
The rule for eligibility in Wisconsin for Medicaid and other forms of welfare should be simple: if you can walk and talk you're not eligible, and neither is anything that pops out of your uterus.
Posted on October 6 at 12:28 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I've used Macs since the first Mac was out. There's nothing that even comes close. I thought I'd send this in from the oldest Mac I still have - a G4 and although she was built in 2001, she runs Mac OS X and still does yeoman's service. Try THAT on a PC. God, when I think of the Mac's I've owned over the years..... Thank you, Steve Jobs, thank you. May God rest your soul.
On Janesville School Board holds meeting on closing school
Posted on September 17 at 11:51 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
If enrollment is down 15% then they really should be closing 2 schools.
On No decision on Janesville school closing
Posted on September 6 at 11:41 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
All in all, either Kennedy, or Monroe is the school to close and I'd lean toward Monroe.
On Mortgage crisis changes are transforming home sales
Posted on August 31 at 1:11 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Not using professional help is being penny wise and pound foolish if in fact that is what they did. If they didn't want to hire a Broker, they should have paid $400 for an appraisal. I don't really feel too bad for them - ya try to cheap out and that's whatcha get.
On JEA will not reopen contract
Posted on August 31 at 12:56 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Say, Beelab, in late August, or early September of last year as you put it for a time frame wouldn't one think that both the Superintendent and the Board would have had some idea - no matter how small - that we were going to get a new Governor in about two months and no matter who it was, because the Democrat candidate, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, said if he was elected he'd "put the state government on a diet" that there might not be as much free money coming in from Madison as there used to be? Wouldn't they have had some clue? Even a really little one? And planned accordingly? I mean, isn't that kinda like why these folks are supposed to be in charge? Because they have managerial talent? It's their budget after al.... I mean, like what kind of folks are running the show here anyway? Here's the deal: they knew how this was going to end up all along, but they didn't have the testicular fortitude to deal with it at the time it should have been dealt with.
On JEA will not reopen contract
Posted on August 31 at 12:44 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Walker's got nothing to do with this - teachers are not state employees. Never have been. It is still - as it always has been - up to the local School Boards to make and balance their own budgets. This year in Janesville we're short. The JEA's leadership decided they didn't wish to help out with the budget shortfall. One fails to see how it gets any fancier than that.....
On JEA will not reopen contract
Posted on August 31 at 12:24 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
This thread is full of crybabies. Look, it is what it is: the school system is at least $2 million in the hole if one trusts their numbers because it's probably ore than that, and the union's answer is to raise taxes on an already over-taxed community. It's not like one didn't expect that to be their answer because it always is, but raising taxes just isn't really in the cards this time around. So, what's left for alternatives? Well, there are two: introduce the Janesville Public Schools to the real world, or hurt the kids. That's your choice. The JEA had a chance to be a part of the solution, but their leadership chose not to be. Fine. It was their choice. But next time around the balance of power will be different and they'll be in for a rude awakening. It is also obvious that this whole mess calls into question the competence of the Superintendent and who's pocket the Board is in: the taxpayers who they are elected to represent, or the JEA who they have no business representing. Both the Superintendent and the Board ought to be embarrassed.
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On No. 1 seed now focus for Packers
Posted on December 20 at 12:47 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
If I were a betting man I would not wager money on the Packers at this point. Love them though I do, I see two huge factors that with against them in the balance and those are #1: a substandard defense which I don't expect to get much disagreement on, and #2 a decimated offensive line that can't well enough protect the Quarterback. Though I am loathe to admit it, my gut tells me the Pack goes one-and-out in the playoffs whether they play at Lambeau, or not. Healthy, this them is unbeatable, but they are not healthy.