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Mr. Thompson asks: Is Minnesota losing business due to higher taxes?

...important rules for running a business is not spending more than you have," Severson was quoted saying."Gov. (Scott) Walker and I have been working to make Wisconsin more business friendly. In just one year, Wisconsin jumped 17 spots on...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-03-14/mr-thompson-asks-minnesota-losing
Opinion
Do tax increases kill jobs? Minnesota soon to find out

...Wisconsin is like a photo negative of Minnesota politically. On the day Dayton unveiled his tax proposal, Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he might "put a little bit more of a push" into luring Minnesota companies. He had already put Wisconsin "Open...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-02-13/do-tax-increases-kill-jobs-minnesota
News | Political
On, Wisconsin!

...ThomasTribune Media ServicesIf the polls are right, the vote next Tuesday (today) in Wisconsin on whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state senators could amount to a redial of their original victory...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-06-05/wisconsin
Columnists
Wisconsin voters, Walker are winners in recall election

Our neighbors in the Badger state went to the polls yesterday to decide if they should recall Scott Walker as governor. Gov. Walker's bold action depleted the strength of public employee unions in Wisconsin. Union collective bargaining...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-06-05/wisconsin-voters-walker-are-winne
Opinion
Judge strikes down Wisconsin law limiting union rights

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers. Walker's administration immediately...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-09-14/judge-strikes-down-wisconsin-law-lim
News | Political
Pileup at the White House

...correspondents from swing states, but the one from Wisconsin asked about the failed attempt to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker and the one from Nevada asked about her state's unemployment rate, the nation's highest. Mostly, though, questions...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-06-13/pileup-white-house
Columnists
Open Forum: Wow, is this stimulus working!

...another hot button issue: pushing for an amendment defining marriage, while simultaneously picking up some of Gov.Scott Walker/state of Wisconsin rhetoric. All of these topics are extremely controversial and separate from getting our 'fiscal...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2011-07-11/open-forum-wow-stimulu
Open Forum
Progressive governance versus progressive interest groups

...There is a wide-open contest for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Democrat Herb Kohl.And Republican Gov. Scott Walker, along with his lieutenant governor and several Republican members of the state Senate, will probably face a recall...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-02-08/progressive-governa
Other Opinion
Public unions must line up with private sector

...governments that are near collapse or have collapsed.Is there a solution? Of course, but short of doing what Gov. Scott Walker did in Wisconsin to save that neighboring state from fiscal meltdown, the medicine is not going to taste good.Concessions...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/2012-03-20/public-unions-must-li
Our Opinion

...bond funds. Wisconsin's share will be much as $305 million. The Wisconsin Building Commission, chaired by Gov. Scott Walker, recently authorized the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to borrow $225 million to help fund its share. Wisconsin...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-04-29-12

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