Last month, Minneapolis-based Medtronic acquired a big Irish corporation so it could create a new headquarters on paper in Dublin and pay Ireland's lower corporate tax rate. The financerazzi call the Medtronic move inversion. Democratic candidate for Senate Rick Weiland…
Posts published in July 2014
Let's go to Cuba! Brookings Pax Christi is hosting a potluck and program to support the "Caravan to Cuba" project. For 25 years, Pastors for Peace has been organizing relief trips to Cuba to protest the anti-Castro embargo the United…
And, yes, the SuperPAC in question does recognize the irony of raising big money to combat big money ... Splashing a great big "WE DID IT!" banner across its homepage, an organization billing itself as "the SuperPAC to end all…
I see Chad Haber has taken my advice. No, not my advice that he stop scheming and take care of his family. According to his wife Annette Bosworth's paid spokesman, Haber has announced his intent to run for South Dakota…
Independent candidate for governor Mike Myers is trying to take a bite out of Susan Wismer's chunk of the electorate by buying ad space on this blog (thanks again, Mike!). Now it looks like he's aiming his fork at Dennis…
I expected more from Dick Wadhams. But the slumping Rove wannabe who returned to the scene of his star-making 2004 crime to work for Mike Rounds made nary a ping on our political radar until last week, when the South…
I've heard this bit of Madison lore in a couple of permutations. Back in the 1960s, a contractor on a new project was planning to pay his workers wages higher than the local going rate. One of the city fathers…