Category Archives: Global Concern

Coming up this week in Madison

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 21, 2011

Current law requires the Governor to deliver the biennial budget message to the Legislature on or before the last Tuesday in January this year (extensions are permitted). The Governor must also provide the Legislature with a biennial state budget report, the executive budget bill, and suggestions for the best methods for raising any additional needed [...]

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Madison Protest

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 20, 2011

Wisconsin “Budget Repair Bill” Protest Pt 2 from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo.

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Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 3, 2011
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The war on nutz

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 16, 2011

You can’t be friends with a squirrel. A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. – Sarah Jessica Parker Corporate white-hat hackers and the Mossad have set back Persian plans for nuclear bomb production by at least three years according to an article in today’s New York Times. Fact checking the Times puff [...]

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New START

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 18, 2010

The U.S. is far better off with this treaty than without it. It strengthens the security of the U.S. and our allies and promotes strategic stability between the world’s two major nuclear powers. – Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense The US Senate is considering ratification of the new START treaty with Russia. The deliberations, [...]

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Clonal moo juice

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 13, 2010

Savvy dairymen in Britain may be adulterating the nation’s milk supply with something that looks like milk, tastes like milk, and comes from an animal that moos like a milker, but leaves regulators and ethical arbiters unsure of whether or not to permit its consumption. Here and there around the world, cloned cows and their [...]

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The French Fry and the Polluted Sky

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 4, 2010

Last month at bloomberg.com, Andy Grove offered his perspectives on innovation and job creation and America’s failure to link the two. (See “How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late.”) Grove led Intel to global dominance in the microprocessor market, and he’s uniquely qualified to talk about the conditions that have stunted American [...]

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Weekend Bobcat

By Frank Paynter | Published: June 13, 2010

Lots o’ lynx… Google stuff. So much of this is great. Why is Feedburner so difficult for me? Can the US Punish BP’s Shareholders? The editors of the New York Times asked that question. Is there any doubt that the US could freeze their assets and confiscate every dime? And would that be “punishment?” The [...]

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