Here are yet more examples of what’s wrong with our politics today: Several days ago an official state audit reported that faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin seldom take any sick leave, a practice that allows them to accumulate days that they can convert into paid health insurance when they retire.
Anita Weier of our staff covered the audit report, which was released late on a Friday morning. But before the newspaper actually hit the streets a couple of hours later with her story, there was a press release in my e-mail inbox from GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, blaming it all on incumbent Gov. Jim Doyle.
Anyone who is at all familiar with state government knows that such a charge is patently silly. University and state workers for better or for worse have been taking advantage of that state benefit for decades.