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In our blog post of July 5, 2011 we cited analysis of the recently release quarterly summary report of Barack Obama's Stimulus that concluded the Administration spent $278,000 per job they claimed to have "saved or created" with the $666 billion the White House has spent thus far of the more than $800 billion authorized by the legislation approved in 2009.    The Administration used the Stimulus as a private slush fund to funnel vast amounts of money to programs and industries favored by the President.  One of his campaign pledges was to expand broadband internet access, particularly to rural...

A check of final heating degree day statistics for January shows the month was indeed the coldest month in 15 years -- since January 1994. Factor in a colder than normal December, and clearly we’re due for a break: The past two months have marked the coldest stretch of December-January weather, based on heating degree days, since the winter of 1985-’86. That’s sure to be felt in heating costs when customers open up their next utility bill. Even with a balmy end to the month Saturday -- when the temperature in Milwaukee climbed above freezing for the first time in...