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(03/02/10 6:00am)
Will he or won't he? This question usually indicates one of two
things around these parts: Either it is the NFL offseason or we are
approaching an election of some sort. Brett Favre and former
Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson could easily be cousins. Both have
been transplanted only to become Wisconsin golden boys. Both have
retired, but both have had to consider whether they are happy with
that status several times. Both can ""still play."" Perhaps most
significantly at this point, both are holding their respective
organizations in suspense while they ponder their futures.
(02/23/10 6:00am)
As many people know, the fate of Brothers Bar & Grill on
University Avenue is currently very uncertain. The UW Board of
Regents wants to condemn the bar and use the land it is currently
sitting on for a new music building. There had been prior
negotiations regarding the school purchasing the land but those
fell through. Now the owners of the bar, Marc and Eric Fortney, are
suing the Board of Regents. Last week, a large sign appeared on the
wall of the bar opposing the new music school and vaguely asking
that people ""mobilize"" to save the bar. But the city of Madison
forced them to take the sign down, claiming it was larger than
regulations allow.
(02/16/10 6:00am)
Due to the protests, the growing number of people involved, and
the controversial convention last week, the so-called Tea Party
movement is getting more and more difficult to ignore. But who are
these people and what do they really stand for? In a late January
survey, 40 percent of respondents said that they either had not
heard of the movement or did not know enough about it to form an
opinion. Granted, this poll was conducted before the recent
National Tea Party Convention, but that event did not really
provide any more definitive information about this group than was
already available.
(02/09/10 6:00am)
The evolution-versus-creation-in-school debate has been raging
for years. Some say religion should not be taught in schools. Some
say students should not be exposed to material that conflicts with
the religious beliefs their parents are attempting to instill in
them. Still others say that both should be taught so that students
are exposed to both sides of the argument and can make a decision
for themselves. The debate could be boiled down to creation and the
Big Bang Theory, since evolution only addresses what has happened
after the appearance of life on earth. But the real debate should
be more general: religion versus science.
(02/04/10 6:00am)
To hear Gov. Doyle describing the ""state"" of our state, one
has to wonder why he decided not to seek re-election in 2010. An
outsider would never have known that his popularity as governor has
been slipping for some time, even within his own party. Aside from
a few comments about the difficult economic times we're immersed
in, Doyle made things sound simply whimsical. But in reality,
Doyle's speech bent the truth on some issues and simply sidestepped
others altogether.
(01/27/10 6:00am)
Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4, may have summed it up best when
he said, ""I believe it's a solution in search of a problem.""
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz has revised his proposal that would
prohibit bar owners and their employees from drinking while they
serve alcohol so that it doesn't include entertainers (who are
technically independent contractors) or those involved in sampling
for quality purposes. However, said sampling would likely be
limited to an indeterminate number of drinks per shift. Still, at
least one revision was essential for this proposed ordinance if it
was going appear plausible at all.
(01/20/10 6:00am)
Wisconsin may end up being the only state in the union that
fails to adopt the changes in IRA conversion law made by the
federal Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005
(TIPRA). The law removes the adjusted gross income limitation on
people who want to convert their traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs (it
was previously $100,000). Traditional IRAs allow contributions of
untaxed income but disbursements on them are taxed and are required
starting at age seventy and a half. Roth IRA contributions have
already been taxed but do not tax disbursements and do not ever
mandate them (this is significant in terms of estate planning
because the money could continue to grow tax free over the lifetime
of a beneficiary, unlike with traditional IRAs). It gets much more
complicated than this for individual situations but in general, a
person would want to convert to a Roth IRA if he or she anticipated
being at a higher tax rate in the future than today.
(12/07/09 6:00am)
Recently, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker has
expressed an interest in having former vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin endorse him. As a viable candidate with a record of
solid results in fiscal policy (the area Wisconsin needs the most
help with by far) in particular, this is a major step in the wrong
direction for him.
(11/05/09 6:00am)
A roomful of reporters simultaneously gasped in shock. Thørbjorn
Jagland, leader of the Nobel Committee, had just announced Barack
Obama, a man who had been inaugurated president of the United
States only twelve days before the February 1 nomination deadline
for the prize, as the committee's selection from a field of 205
candidates for 2009. In the United States, the reaction was
similar. Republicans, and even many Democrats, wondered what Obama
could have done in 12 days to warrant being nominated for the prize
and how what he had done in less than nine months as president
could have warranted winning it. Obama himself seemed surprised.
""To be honest,"" he said, ""I do not feel that I deserve to be in
the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been
honored by this prize.""