Smoke & Mirrors: the Streetcar, Couture, and TIFs

Are TIFs – tax increment districts – necessary tools for economic development in blighted areas – or just “smoke and mirrors” designed to spend taxpayer money on projects that do not need it? A recent story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that provides some pretty...

Civics 101 and Obamacare

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported last week that President Donald Trump has the power to “let Obamacare implode” by deciding, apparently entirely on his own, not to make some subsidy payments that are otherwise due to insurers who participate in the program....