The year-in-review stories are nearly two months away, but I think we can already recap state politics in 2011 as Wisconsin?s “annus horribilis,” which translates to “horrible year.” The Latin isn’t mine. Todd Berry, president of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, used “Wisconsin’s annus horribilis” as his title to put the state budget in context in a recent lecture to retired UW-Madison employees.
….And Walker has taken a meat cleaver to the University of Wisconsin System, most recently by imposing, without explanation, a disproportionate share of “lapse” budget reductions to the campuses. He also socked it to cities on shared-revenue payments and has proposed major reductions in health care coverage.