Check out these South Shore headlines, including a well-done piece from Bruce Murphy, now of Urban Milwaukee, that dissects former Bucyrus CEO Tim Sullivan’s notion of a “skills gap” in Wisconsin …
- Murphy’s Law: The World According To Tim Sullivan (Urban Milwaukee)
- Walker, Barrett Cut Deal On Lakefront Road Work; Land Would Open For Development (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Flood Warning Issued For Oak Creek (Oak Creek Patch)
- China Will Drive Caterpillar’s Long-Term Growth Despite Recent Weakness (Forbes)
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Your link to Bruce Murphy’s hit piece on Tim Sullivan denigrates the quality of your blog. To insinuate there isn’t a skills gap by selecting only the metrics that support your position isn’t journalism. This article only focuses on welding positions and they only represent a small portion of the skills gap problem. How many young plumbers do you know. How many kids are enrolled in the apprentice programs at SMHS?
Al: I don’t know the answer to your question, but I do know I respect Bruce Murphy’s opinion on things. He goes behind the easy headlines and takes a deeper — and apolitical — dive into issues that you simply can’t find in other places. Sometimes he hits the mark. Sometimes he doesn’t. In either case, I find his columns to be must-reads.