Backwater Wisconsin

Capital Times editor Paul Fanlund rhetorically poses the question about whether Wisconsin is being dragged to the political backwaters by Walker and the right - - then answers his own question with a must-read scintillating historical and political analysis:

With which I agree:

You could not find a stronger indicator of Wisconsin's emerging backwater status and unflinchingly callous political direction under Scott Walker than his blockade of a minimum wage increase and dismissal of the need to even have it - - while 20 other states and the District of Columbia will increase it on January 1, 2015.