Monthly Archives: August 2010

Federal Workers Make Twice That of Private Sector

Who said you can’t get rich working for the government? “The Commerce Department recently released its annual report on worker compensation by industry. In particular, the report compared the average compensation for federal civilian (nonmilitary) workers versus those employed in the private sector. We’ve long known that the average federal worker makes more than the…

Economic development done right: A success story

By Ken Van Doren NECEDAH WI- Notwithstanding the article I wrote last time (When Economic Development is NOT, July 29, 2010 edition), not all the economic lessons emanating from the Necedah area are negative. Less than 2 miles from the Village of Necedah owned “business incubator” building is the former Best Power building, which is…

Crazy Train

Not long ago, United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood convened an audience in Watertown, Wis., with the intention of touting the “high speed” rail station he imagined would be built there. Along with Jim Doyle, the Secretary signed a grant agreement to use $46.5 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts funds to begin the…

MacIver Institute Files Open Records Requests Regarding Oconomowoc Train Station

For Immediate Release – August 19, 2010 MacIver Institute Files Open Records Requests Regarding Oconomowoc Train Station Free Market Think Tank Pursues Communications from Governor’s Office and DOT [Madison, Wisc..] The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is investigating the events surrounding the abrupt alterations in the Milwaukee to Madison rail project. On Tuesday,…

James Cameron—King of the Hypocrites

Ann McElhinney Last March James Cameron sounded defiant. The Avatar director was determined to expose journalists, such as myself, who thought it was important to ask questions about climate change orthodoxy and the radical “solutions” being proposed. Cameron said he was itching to debate the issue and show skeptical journalists and scientists that they were…

Mann-handling the Data

Michael Mann, author of the discredited “hockey stick” graph, said [9], “Record heat wave in the US that’s part of a larger picture of early summer temperatures that are the warmest on record, which is part of a larger picture of a globe that is running warmer than ever before…” Figure 1 shows the record…