Quite by accident, I came across a database listing teacher salaries and benefits for the metro Milwaukee area. The database allows you to enter any teacher or administrator’s last name, and see the value of their salary and benefits for the 2006-07 school year. This is all public information that is required to be made available by the Department of Public Instruction.
I know a few teachers in the area, and I knew they were well-paid. But I had no idea how much. For all of the teachers that I entered into the system, I came up with salaries in the range of $50,000 to $70,000 per year, and benefits in the range of $30,000 to 40,000 per year.
That means the teachers I know, who all have experience in the range of 5 to 15 years, are being compensated in the neighborhood of $80,000 to $110,000 for working part time.Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday there was a shameful protest in support of a man who, while drunk, stepped on the gas pedal of his car and dragged a Milwaukee police officer with the car. That police officer is lucky to be alive.
But the Hmong community feels sorry for the criminal, Koua Moua, who got a black and swollen eye while he tried to resist arrest. Note that there were several eye witnesses to this incident, including one who was on the phone after calling 911 and narrated the process of Moua dragging this officer with his car. The alleged “brutality” occurred while police tried to get him to stop the car and be arrested.
I just got the “Ad Review Center” option on my Google AdSense account, and I decided to give it a whirl. I have Google ads on two sites: this one, and Pink Truth (my public awareness campaign against Mary Kay Cosmetics and similarly abusive multi-level marketing companies and pyramid schemes).
I didn’t take my participation in the Ad Review process lightly. Because my sites often mention MLMs and other business opportunity scams, a lot of the Google ads that show up are offering those very scams! In the past, I tried to use the competitive ad filter to block these ads. And that ended up worse than ever. As fast as I could block certain web addresses, the exact same advertisers were using other web addresses which just forwarded to the original ones I had blocked.
The Ad Review Center seems to be a better option. You can block an entire advertiser’s campaign… period. Read the rest of this entry »
Barb Bartlein is known nationally as “The People Pro“… offering advice and strategic assistance in dealing with people issues. She assists clients with management training, professional mentoring, and employee management issues. She’s a nationally syndicated columnist for The Business Journal, a successful author, and one funny lady. Her humor his lit up audiences for years.
She featured Essentials of Corporate Fraud in her recent newsletter, and this is the article she wrote about it: Read the rest of this entry »
Lena Taylor is an embarrassment in her current political job. She wants to raise all sorts of taxes, and wants to spring a bunch of criminals from jail. She wants to waste zillions of dollars on light rail that no one will use. She wants more sales taxes… effectively driving out even more businesses.
From February 6, 2008 Usana Health Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:USNA) conference call, comments by CFO (who lied about being a CPA) Gil Fuller:
Now before I turn the time over to Dave, I’ll comment on our guidance. Yesterday in our press release we provided first quarter and full year guidance of 2008. Based on the current business trends, we believe that net sales for the first quarter of 2008 will be between $105 million and $109 million with earnings per share expected to be between $0.63 and $0.66 per share. For the full year 2008, the company is adjusting both its net sales and earnings per share guidance to 7% to 10% growth compared with the full year of 2007.
Closing price of stock on February 6, 2008, per Yahoo: $38.41.
Tracy Coenen is a forensic accountant and fraud examiner who investigates white collar crimes, including cases of financial statement fraud, embezzlement, tax fraud, and insurance fraud. She is the author of Essentials of Corporate Fraud and more than 100 articles on fraud featured in industry publications.
