John Torinus

As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sets himself up to win a second term in 2014 and to position himself as a presidential contender in 2016, he needs to make good on his number one objective from his 2010 campaign: job creation.

The latest flap over ObamaCare, whether state or local government will run the exchanges, has once again created a major distraction from real reform of the health care delivery system.

The country will be slicing and dicing state and national election returns for weeks to try to figure out where all the chips will fall. Some of the voting dynamics will remain obscure for awhile, but other fall-outs seem relatively clear. Among them:

“If you don’t get out and try it, you won’t have the opportunity to be successful.”
So said Jalem Getz about business ventures after receiving the George Dalton Inspirational Entrepreneur Award from BizStarts Milwaukee at its fourth anniversary celebration recently. He knows all about trying different businesses before finding one that hits pay dirt.

The faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) has received no general raises over the last five years, so it has become a target for poaching. The campus has lost 40 faculty members recently to competing institutions.

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan should be careful what he asks for when it comes to taking employers in the private sector out of managing health care.

The Tammy-Tommy show in Wisconsin for the right to be the “51st U.S. senator” promises to be as defining as the Obama-Biden vs. Romney-Ryan run for the presidency. Both will be hard core fights about the ways and means of paying for different levels of federal government.

Some big thinkers, looking for big answers for the troubles afflicting the Milwaukee economy, keep looking south to Chicago.

It's hard for Wisconsin business people to tell the differences between the four candidates to become the 51st GOP senator this fall, because they agreed on so many issues, mainly that the United States is on a course for financial disaster.

I was interacting in Onalaska with two dozen small business leaders when the news came down Thursday morning that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Obamacare. The reaction was uncertainty about what to do in their companies.