Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle applied for an 810-million-dollar grant to build a high-speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison. This is a heavily traveled route by car. Perhaps a high-speed rail route between the two cities with a short travel time could have persuaded a lot of those drivers to leave the car at home, and take the train. We’ll never know. Doyle’s successor and present Governor, Scott Walker gave back the money. People in Milwaukee and Madison may have grumbled, but there was no political […]
How does it hold up? – A Review of the Myth of the Paperless Office or The Piles of Docs in My Smartphone Aren’t the Same as the Piles on my desk.
A recent temp assignment at a large law firm inspired me to re-read The Myth of the Paperless Office. During this assignment, I had time to wander the halls, look in at the attorneys’ offices, and see boxes of court-case related material. I wondered: couldn’t all these reams of paper be scanned, and their data be added to thumb drives or tablets? No, said a LinkedIn connection of mine, who is a paralegal. Most of the documents will end up in trial binders which are […]
Forward? To “Bombs” and Divisive Politics?
Gubernatorial elections take place next year, and in states like Wisconsin, potential candidates are starting emerge. One of them is the author of this book. Tim Cullen, a former Democratic state senator served in the Wisconsin Senate during the 1970s. His district included the Southeastern town of Janesville, where he was born. In 1987 he became Senate Majority leader. Later, Republican Governor Tommy Thompson asked him to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. (Think of that: A Republican Governor asks […]