Feb 28, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
By Rick MazeThe Defense Department is getting early pushback from key Republican lawmakers over proposals to increase Tricare fees.Three Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee raised a similar point: that federal workers and other people receiving...
Feb 24, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
President Barack Obama’s proposed funding for continued cleanup of the Great Lakes has received politically correct responses from conservationists who wish he had offered more but know — in this economic climate — that he could have offered less.Obama’s...
Feb 23, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
By Stephanie RebekImagine being a Boy Scout and building wooden cars, then being accepted as an Eagle Scout. You became so involved that you were able to deliver the Report of the Nation of the Boy Scouts of America in Washington DC.For Dan Carriveau, sophomore resort...
Feb 23, 2012 | Op-Eds and Blogs
Troy Winkelman was one of a couple hundred people who packed University of Wisconsin Oshkosh’s Reeve Memorial Union ballroom Feb. 22 to hear U.S. Senator Ron Johnson speak.”If any politician comes to campus, it’s once in a lifetime and it’s...
Feb 17, 2012 | Press Releases, Taxes
Washington, D.C. – Senator Johnson released the following statement regarding the conference report on H.R. 3630:”I do not want to raise taxes on any American. I also think it is bad policy to continue to reduce funding for Social Security –...
