County Exec Abele Fires HR Director after 1 Week

On the job for only a week, Milwaukee County's new human resources director was abruptly fired without any reason given, John S. Listinsky said Tuesday.
Listinsky said he got a verbal warning Friday that he might be let go and was fired by email on Monday. He did not get an opportunity to discuss any concerns, Listinsky said.
"Nothing more has been said to me," Listinsky said. "I'm a little bit shocked."
Listinsky's hiring to the $125,000-a-year job was announced late last month by County Executive Chris Abele, in a news release touting Listinsky's credentials with several large private companies.
Abele's office issued a statement Tuesday saying only that the county executive was withdrawing his nomination of Listinsky as HR director. The position requires County Board confirmation.
Abele spokesman Jeff Bentoff said Listinsky's departure was a personnel matter and he couldn't comment further.
Listinsky said he was heavily recruited for the county job and that he quit his last job as human resources director for Thermo Fisher Scientific in Two Rivers to take the county position. - JSONLINE

Brewers Party with the Fans Before Playoffs Start

You know it when you feel it.
The "electricity" in a ballpark when a baseball team is making a postseason run is palpable, if not easily explained. It makes the hair on your neck stand at attention, pushes you toward the edge of your seat, changes the way you breathe, quickens your pulse.
It can't be manufactured, except by a winning team.
It can't be quantified, except by nerve endings.
It can't be defined, except by the senses.
So what is it, exactly, this energy we felt at Miller Park while the Milwaukee Brewers made their run toward the National League Central Division title and will reach a crescendo Saturday in Game 1 of the NL Division Series?
"It's kind of like the night before a math test and Christmas Eve rolled into one," said Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers' vice president of business operations. "It's excitement, but also you don't have control over what that first question will be on the math test.
"You have 42,000 people really focused on the exact same physical space and for the most part wanting the same outcome on every pitch and every at-bat." - JSOnline

The excitement the Milwaukee Brewers have ignited at Miller Park has been going for a majority of the season.  Now it is time to see if the Brewers, as well as the fans are ready to take it to the next level.  The Brewers and their fans have set expectations for a deep playoff run.

Obamacare Making Healthcare anything but Affordable

The signature legislation of the Obama Administration, the Affordable Care Act, came under damaging assault Wednesday from a Kaiser Family Foundation survey that found it has already partially contributed to increasing health care costs.

The Kaiser survey helps to shed some light on why so few employers are hiring, as health care costs for employers are spiraling upwards.

The survey found that insurance premiums rose by 9 percent in 2011. Healthcare costs for a single worker went up on average from $5,049 to $5,429, and for a family, costs rose from $13,770 to $15,073, on average.

The survey also found that some provisions of the Affordable Care Act already in place -- including the allowance for young people up to 26 years of age to remain on their parents insurance policy -- contributed to 20 percent of that increase. - FOX News

Who Pays Taxes and how Much?

 With all of the talk about making everyone pay their fair share, look at the charts below that shows who pays their fair share?  

National Taxpayers Union

Tax Year 2008

Percentiles Ranked by AGI	AGI Threshold on Percentiles	Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1%	$380,354	38.02
Top 5%	$159,619	58.72
Top 10%	$113,799	69.94
Top 25%	$67,280	86.34
Top 50%	$33,048	97.30
Bottom 50%	<$33,048	2.7
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income Source: Internal Revenue Service

Tax Year 2007

Percentiles Ranked by AGI	AGI Threshold on Percentiles	Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1%	$410,096	40.42
Top 5%	$160,041	60.63
Top 10%	$113,018	71.22
Top 25%	$66,532	86.59
Top 50%	$32,879	97.11
Bottom 50%	<$32,879	2.89
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income Source: Internal Revenue Service

Tax Year 2006

Percentiles Ranked by AGI	AGI Threshold on Percentiles	Percentage of Federal Personal Income Tax Paid
Top 1%	$388,806	39.89
Top 5%	$153,542	60.14
Top 10%	$108,904	70.79
Top 25%	$64,702	86.27
Top 50%	$31,987	97.01
Bottom 50%	<$31,987	2.99
Note: AGI is Adjusted Gross Income Source: Internal Revenue Service

Costs rise as terra cotta problems at City Hall

More than seven months after a chunk fell off Milwaukee's newly renovated City Hall, the investigation into what went wrong is still ongoing - lasting months longer and costing more than four times as much as originally estimated, city officials say.
The probe has already cost $425,000 and the price is still rising, said Ron Schoeneck, architectural manager for the $76 million renovation that wrapped up in December 2008. Testing and inspections first projected to take several months are now unlikely to be completed before the end of this year, and possibly not until spring, according to Schoeneck and his boss, city Facilities Director Venu Gupta.
Meanwhile, scaffolding continues to ring the iconic building. That will stay in place to protect pedestrians until city officials know what happened and can be sure no other pieces will fall off their 115-year-old headquarters, Schoeneck said.
None of this is what city leaders had in mind when they celebrated the end of the three-year restoration project. It was the biggest public works job in city history, and it came in on schedule and under budget. It later won multiple awards, including one from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The scaffolding had been down for more than two years when, on the evening of Feb. 17, a piece of masonry fell off the east side of the building. As it struck the ground, the terra cotta broke into three roughly 5-pound fragments, slightly damaging a car parked on N. Market St. - JSOnline

When a piece of concrete fell off of a parking garage and killed a person, many Dems cried out that it was due to the lack of spending by then County Exec Scott Walker.  But, a piece falls off of City Hall and very easily could have killed someone and there is no outcry? No, it is now about how much it is costing to find out what went wrong.

ATF - Fast and Furious - More Details Coming Out

WASHINGTON - In secretly recorded conversations between two individuals deeply entwined in the ATF's controversial "Fast and Furious" operation, the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry is described as "collateral damage."
The recordings were obtained exclusively by CBS News. The man who made them - Arizona gun dealer Andre Howard - ran the Lone Wolf Trading Company and was speaking with Hope MacAllister, the ATF operation's case agent.
Two of the guns Howard sold while cooperating with the ATF that were later found at Terry's murder.
"It happened. It's terrible," Howard said. "That's life ok we move on." - CBS News

State Sen. Lena Taylor Taking Heat

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt on Thursday criticized Democratic state Sen. Lena Taylor of Milwaukee for a Facebook posting in which she called for a boycott of paper products made by Georgia-Pacific, which is owned by the politically conservative Koch Brothers.

Georgia-Pacific also is one of Green Bay's largest employers with 2,300 workers.
"A boycott of one of our largest employers would be very hurtful," Schmitt said. He added that in the last five years Georgia-Pacific had invested more than $110 million in expansion and new machinery locally.
"We're very disappointed in her comments," said Schmitt, adding that he does not know Taylor.
"Georgia-Pacific is one of those great companies that we're proud to have in our community," he said. "She's not explained herself, but no one here is taking these comments as anything more than political rhetoric. But it's something we don't need."

Taylor said Thursday that she's urging the boycott because the political policies and leaders that Charles and David Koch support "harm the community."

Taylor was one of 14 Democratic state senators who left the state in February for three weeks to impede Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, which eliminated most collective bargaining for most public employees. The Koch brothers are supporters of Walker.

Taylor posted the following on her Facebook website:

"Money talks! Why shouldn't you buy the following: Dixie Cups, Vanity Fair Paper Products, Mardi Gras Napkins, Brawny and Sparkle Paper Towels, Angel Soft and Quilted Northern Toilet Paper. . . . Your purchase supports destruction of democracy, two words . . . Koch Brothers. Join the boycott, send this to all of your Facebook Friends."

She said she got the post from other elected officials, but she would not say whom. And it's not the first time she's posted the message on Facebook, she said. - JS Online

Sen Lena Taylor Intentionally trying to kill Jobs in Wisconsin

Why, as a Senator in the state legislature, and in a time of such economic concern and high unemployment, would you call for boycotts of businesses within your own state?  Ask Sen. Lena Taylor.

She is obviously unhappy that people are allowed to excercise their rights to support someone other than herself. 

This is plain and simply Thug Politics. 

WISN Story

Police Union Votes Down Contract

In their first deals under a new state bargaining law, Milwaukee firefighters and police commanders have agreed to pay significantly more for their health care in exchange for pay raises.
But the police officers union has rejected a similar deal - even though the city offered to fill 100 police vacancies, a top priority of the Milwaukee Police Association.
Contracts expired at the end of 2009 for all three unions, and they have been working under extensions of their previous agreements. Unlike other public employees, police and firefighters were exempt from the state law that ended most public-sector collective bargaining and required state and local government workers to pay 12% of their health care premium costs and half their pension costs.
City negotiators, however, pushed to extend the same health care contributions to the public safety unions. The pension issue, by contrast, has been in legal limbo since City Attorney Grant Langley issued an opinion saying the state law did not apply to the city pension fund.
The Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Association voted Wednesday to ratify a three-year contract that would retroactively freeze pay for 2010, incorporate premium pay into base salaries for 2011 and raise wages 4% next year for some 800 firefighters up through the rank of captain, said City Labor Negotiator Troy Hamblin and Ald. Michael Murphy, chairman of the Common Council's Finance & Personnel Committee.
Late last month, the Milwaukee Police Supervisors' Organization ratified a deal with similar 2010 and 2011 wage provisions, followed in 2012 by raises of 4.75% for sergeants and 3% for lieutenants, captains and deputy inspectors, according to documents sent to Murphy's committee. Sergeants are the overwhelming majority of the union's roughly 325 members, Hamblin said.
But the larger police union, representing about 1,800 rank-and-file officers and detectives, voted 52% to 48% this week against a contract that would have raised 2012 pay by 4.3%, with the same 2010-'11 pay provisions as the other two safety unions, city officials said. - JS Online

Regulation Nation

From financial services to farming, plumbing to computer repair, business owners say new regulations have them so bogged down in compliance that it is hindering their ability to plan and expand for the coming years.

Even though President Obama recently acknowledged the need to minimize regulations, the number appears to be growing. Obama administration regulations on new business rose to 3,573 final rules in 2010, up from 3,503 in 2009 -- the equivalent of about 10 per week. - FOX News

Is there a need for regulation? Most likely yes, there are a need for certain types of regulation.  The problem is that the Government has decided that it is their responsibility to control every aspect of business.  It is that type of mentality that kills jobs and prevents growth.  Free market generally regulates many businesses on its own.

Obama Double Dipping to Pay for New Stimulus

Members of the bipartisan deficit "super committee" are on edge as President Obama calls for Congress to pass his $447 billion jobs plan, fretting that the stimulus-style proposal makes their task that much harder. 

The president, who is sending his plan to Congress Monday evening, claims the bill will not add to the deficit. The White House says that over the next two weeks, Obama will spell out exactly how he intends to pay for the proposals, and then some. 

But the task of offsetting the cost of the bill will ultimately fall to the bipartisan committee. That committee already is charged with finding about $1.5 trillion in deficit savings by Thanksgiving -- Obama's bill brings their target to about $2 trillion. Though the president plans to give the committee a roadmap to reaching that larger target, Republican members expressed concern that the latest request will make it much harder to drum up enough avenues for deficit reduction in a mere two-month timeframe. 

"This proposal would make the already-arduous challenge of finding bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction nearly impossible, removing our options for deficit reduction for a plan that won't reduce the deficit by one penny," committee co-chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, said in a statement. 

Obama, outlining how he plans to find additional savings, pointed to exactly the same targets the super committee was already looking at. The president mentioned three possible sources of money-- eliminating or reducing some tax deductions, making changes in entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid and making wealthier households pay "their fair share," a reference to tax increases.  - FOX News

Walker Savings Bringing Back Teachers

Teacher retirements may have doubled statewide in this year of Wisconsin budget wars, but some school districts are lessening the drain on classroom experience by bringing back teachers who left the classroom at the beginning of the summer.
Peter Hirt, superintendent of the North Lake School District, said his district has hired two teachers who announced their retirement in March.
Though the two are being paid at about the rate they would have been paid had they stayed on, Hirt said, the district is still saving money on their compensation - and would be even if the alternative was to hire replacements right out of college - because the district doesn't have to pay for their health insurance or contribute any more to their retirement fund.
At least three other Milwaukee-area districts - New Berlin, Wauwatosa and Greenfield - hired back retired staff this year at even greater saving, because the teachers are now being paid at lower rates than they were before.
The Associated Press reported last week that about twice as many public school teachers decided to retire in the first half of this year as in each of the past two full years.
Many of their departures apparently came in anticipation of Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, which restricted collective bargaining by most public employees, including teachers, and required them to make new pension and health insurance contributions. The new law, which led to weeks of protests at the Capitol, took effect in late June.
The hired-back teachers in North Lake are second-grade teacher Karen Niehausen and Spanish teacher Camille Faherty. Hirt said the two came to him in March and volunteered to retire to protect younger teachers from being laid off.
Hirt says at that time, before Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill became law, it looked as if the one-school elementary district would have to lose four of its 37 teachers to balance its budget. He said the district accepted the two retirements and announced the layoffs of two more junior teachers in March.
But after school officials crunched the budget numbers this summer and saw how much they'd save from the provisions in the Walker legislation, they realized they could afford to again fill the four positions that had been trimmed. They called back the two laid-off teachers and then chose the two retired teachers from lists of multiple applicants for the other two jobs. - JSOnline

Funny how this is being made Headline News.  Headlines are talking about the "waves of teacher retirements."  Now it seems that there are several that are now re-applying and coming back to work.  Thanks to the Savings from Gov. Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill.

The Civility of the Left

Cranking up the anti-Tea Party rhetoric, Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called on workers to "take these son-of-a-bitches out" as he warmed up a crowd Monday in Detroit ahead of President Obama's Labor Day speech.

The rhetoric coming from speakers at the event was already heated before Hoffa took the stage. Hoffa then declared there's a "war on workers" and vowed that organized labor would "remember in November" which lawmakers were opposing the president's agenda.

"We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face -- a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party," he said. "And there's only one way to beat and win that war -- the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight."

Hoffa called on workers to get involved in opposing Tea Party-aligned lawmakers next November.

"President Obama, this is your army, we are ready to march," Hoffa said. "But everybody here's got to vote. If we go back, and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these son-of-a-bitches out." - FOX News

While Obama and the left attacked Palin for targeting lawmakers for removal from office that had nothing to do with the shooting in Arizona, they now apparently condone Hoffa's comments.

The double standard shows a complete lack of leadership from the President and the Democratic party.

President preaches Country over party, just doesn't practice what he preaches.

First time since 1945, Zero added Jobs

Employers added no net workers last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged, a sign that many were nervous the U.S. economy could be at risk of slipping into another recession.

The Labor Department said Friday that total payrolls were unchanged in August, the weakest report in almost a year. It's the first time since February 1945 that the government has reported a net job change of zero. The unemployment rate stayed at 9.1 percent. - FOX News

Union Intimidation out of Control

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The unions are so angry and have become so obsessed with Scott Walker, that a contingency of union thugs followed him to Milwaukee’s Messmer Preparatory Catholic School last Friday where the governor was to read to students and tour the school.

An unidentified union thug tried to prevent the visit from occurring by tampering with the school’s door locks. Media reports indicate that the vandal put super glue and sticks in the locks of eight school doors late Thursday night. Things went downhill from there.

Protestors spent the day on the sidewalk outside the school, chanting and displaying anti- Walker signs, such as “War on Walker, not on workers.” One protestor was even arrested on battery charges.

The protests got so raucous that at least one parent said that she felt unsafe entering the school with her child. - Townhall.com

Why do people who support the union stand up and object to this type of behavior? This behavior should not only be unacceptable, but it doesn't do anything to help their cause.

Union Challenged at New Berlin School Board Meeting

In a meeting where teachers alternatively were cheered and booed, and Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargaining law was shunned and embraced, the school board meeting Monday night encapsulated the drama that continues to surround the role of teachers unions in the state.

At issue was New Berlin's employee handbook, which the board approved in a unanimous vote, but not before teachers spoke about their lack of input in the new document and how the new rules could negatively affect their work and the district's reputation.

The meeting was moved to the Performing Arts Center at New Berlin West Middle/High School, 18695 W. Cleveland Ave., to accommodate crowds that were expected to be much larger than normal. That's in part because of a raucous school board meeting in Greenfield last week where teachers butted heads with the administration and school board members over a new handbook and the issue of collaboration with teachers. Police were called to the scene.

Districts around the state that no longer have collective bargaining agreements with educators have spent this month putting finishing touches on similar handbooks that spell out wages, work rules and benefits. Many have been approved without much fanfare.

Not in New Berlin. On Monday, the auditorium was filled close to its capacity. Some attendees had to hike through athletic fields from overflow parking to get to the meeting. Squad cars were parked outside with lights flashing.

Teachers and union supporters - from New Berlin and other cities - clapped and cheered for their peers. The other half of the audience appeared keen on keeping taxes low and supporting Walker. They cheered when the board approved the handbook.

New Berlin Education Association President Diane Lazewski estimated 200 New Berlin teachers came out to express displeasure with elements of the handbook. She said some of those elements include a longer work day with no extra pay, a reduction in the amount of sick days teachers can accrue, and new rules regarding everything from dress codes to time for teachers to collaborate.

Lazewski said she believes the changes New Berlin put in place are further-reaching than changes in other handbooks approved by Wisconsin districts.

"I would be surprised to see any other handbook as punitive as ours," Lazewski said.

Leslie Potter, a teacher at New Berlin West who left a mechanical engineering career to become a teacher in 1997, told the board the new rules in the handbook required her to work more hours but limited the time she could spend working with students.

She also said it eliminated any reference to prep time for teachers.

"The school board says that they value collaboration," Potter added. "We request that they approach this handbook in the same manner."

After teachers spoke, a citizen took the microphone and said he represented the 5.5 million taxpayers in Wisconsin who were in favor of Walker doing what he was elected to do.

Applause broke out in the auditorium as the teachers and union supporters sat silent. They walked out before the man was finished speaking.

New Berlin School Board member Art Marquardt said the board and administration had spent considerable time on the document.

He said they weren't trying to be punitive, but the environment in Wisconsin has shifted from one in which the union owned the conversation to one in which the elected representatives are now the dominant voice. - JSOnline

Schools Alter Sick Leave Policies

Many Wisconsin school districts have been making rapid changes to insurance benefits and work rules for employees no longer covered by collective bargaining agreements, but a few districts also are setting their sights on modifying sick-leave policies.

For educators, it's seen as one more benefit being sliced in the wake of Act 10, the new law signed by Gov. Scott Walker that limits collective bargaining.

For school boards and district officials, it's another benefit to be examined because of reduced state funding and limitations on raising property taxes to cover costs.

Financial savings from sick-leave changes are considerably smaller than big-ticket cost reductions often found in switching a health insurance plan design or carrier. So why is sick leave such a hot topic? - JSOnline

Protestors Disrupt School becuase of Walker

MILWAUKEE - Governor Scott Walker and others heading to Messmer Preparatory School on Milwaukee's north side had to go through alternate entrances on Friday after a protester made sure those doors wouldn't open in a normal fashion.

"Some of these folks superglued our front doors at the prep school," said Br. Bob Smith, OFM, the president of Messmer Catholic Schools, about the school on the corner of North Fratney and East Burleigh Streets.

He told Newsradio 620 WTMJ that a woman was walking in front of the school Thursday, asking people to protest.

According to Br. Smith, one protester said " 'Get ready for a riot,' because they were going to disrupt the visit." - 620WTMJ

County Exec to Cut Services, Give additional Worker Benefits

MILWAUKEE - It was a packed house at the Washington Park Senior Center Thursday evening. One by one, people stepped up to the microphone, to speak out out against proposed cuts to Milwaukee County Services.

The county faces a $55 million dollar budget shortfall. County Executive Chris Abele says the budget situation is dire, and even compared it to "the Titanic meeting the Hindenburg". -620WTMJ

County Exec Abele is threatening cuts to Mental Health, Bussing and Special Needs transportation. Stating the County Defecit as the reason for the needed cuts. Wasn't it just last month that he agreed to give benefits to County Workers Domestic Partners?

White Supremacy group plans Protest in West Allis

WEST ALLIS - A white supremacy group is planning a protest in response to the State Fair mob attack, and police are issuing an unusual alert.

Maureen Metzer owns a dance studio a block away from West Allis City Hall. She heard about the rally scheduled for Labor Day weekend and isn't taking any chances. "I am concerned. We actually did decide that we will not be open that day."

It's advice she and other business owners in the area got from the Police Chief in a letter recommending people "lock their doors and close during the time of this activity." Maureen is grateful for the warning. "They told me they've never experienced anything like this before, and I guess better safe than sorry." - 620WTMJ

Illinois Raising Tolls by almost 88%

Driving in Illinois is about to take a much bigger toll on motorists' wallets.

Tolls will shoot up an average of 88% next year to finance a $12 billion toll road expansion and renovation plan, the Illinois Toll Highway Authority decided Thursday.

For drivers who have an I-PASS, an electronic device that allows them to pay tolls automatically, it's the first toll increase in 28 years, the toll road authority said.

But for the occasional toll road user who pays in cash - including many Wisconsin drivers who don't have an I-PASS - it's going to be the second massive increase in seven years, with a third coming up three years later.

In 2005, tolls doubled for anyone without an I-PASS. Those drivers will face increases in both 2012 and 2015, while those with an I-PASS will see only a 2012 increase.

At mainline toll plazas, the ones that all drivers must pass through, the average toll will rise 35 cents, from 40 cents to 75 cents for an automobile equipped with an I-PASS on Jan. 1, the toll road authority said. Trucks pay more, depending on their size and the time of day; their rates will hold steady next year but rise in 2015.

Individual tolls vary from one plaza to another, however, and rates are above average at several of those closest to the Wisconsin border.

At the Waukegan Plaza on I-94, the I-PASS rate will jump from 75 cents to $1.40 next year. The cash rate will increase from $1.50 to $1.90 in 2012 and $2.65 in 2015. - JSOnline

13 Union Protestors Arrested and Carried out of Capitol

Madison - Several hundred chanting, cheering protesters entered the Capitol rotunda Thursday around the 6 p.m. closing time. An hour later, Capitol police carried 13 of them away.

Most of the protesters left around 6:30 p.m. at the urging of police. Officers sought to close the building and enforce a Dane County judge's order from earlier this year that the building be cleared of the public after its business was done for the day.

"I'm asking you very nicely to leave," Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs said. "Please leave now. We need to lock the building."

The protest came on the first day that higher pension and health contributions kick in for state employees.

The scene recalled in a modest way the massive protests of last year over Gov. Scott Walker's legislation repealing most collective bargaining for public workers. That measure also made the cuts to workers' benefits taking effect Thursday to help balance the state budget.

The first wave of protesters entered the statehouse carrying banners, shouting and banging on drums and cowbells. One of them - among those later arrested - was waving an American flag and standing on the first-floor railing overlooking the rotunda until police asked him to step down. - JSOnline

It is this type of behavior and that at the offices of Paul Ryan that have led many Independents to turn away from supporting the Union. Disruptions to the system and blatant disrespect of the law.

No Charges in Supreme Court Choking Claim

Madison - Neither Supreme Court Justice David Prosser nor fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley will face criminal charges for a June altercation that broke out as the judges were considering Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining law, a special prosecutor has determined.

But the incident still could have far-reaching effects - possibly even opening the doors of the court to the public as justices debate how to decide cases.

Breaking her silence about the altercation in a written statement Thursday, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson said she would propose "the presumption will be that court conferences are open to the public," as a way to lead the fractious court back toward civility.

Abrahamson was not available for an interview, and a court spokeswoman said she could not confirm whether the chief justice was referring to deliberations on individual cases. But meetings on the court's rules and finances are usually open to the public already, unlike the justices' deliberations.

No other appellate court in the nation opens its deliberations to public scrutiny, former state Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske said. If Wisconsin's high court did so, "that does create huge problems in decision-making," as citizens see for the first time how the justices' reasoning and even rulings can shift in the months between the time a case is argued and time a decision is handed down, warned Geske, a Marquette University law professor. - JSOnline