‘Rewind’: Your week in review

On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and Associated Press Capitol correspondent Scott Bauer discuss the Wisconsin redistricting case, the Marquette Law School Poll and Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.

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Paul Fanlund: What will it take for people to embrace actual journalism again?

Journalists and media owners can only do their part — re-engineering their business models and working hard to assure a strong, independent and authoritative press. It will be up to thoughtful people across the ideological spectrum to decide this thing is bigger than any garden-variety, left-right squabble. That will determine what kind of country — democracy really — we leave to our children and grandchildren.

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Christian Schneider: Yes, Scott Walker is an ‘education governor’ for Wisconsin

To the parents whose kids have been able to escape low-performing public schools in order to help their children, Walker is absolutely an “education governor.” Even by the metric most favored by Walker’s competitors — state spending — he comes out ahead. Wisconsin now spends nearly $600 million more per year on public K-12 education than it did in Gov. Jim Doyle’s last year in office.

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‘Rewind’: Your week in review

On this week’s episode, WisconsinEye Senior Producer Steve Walters and Associated Press Capitol correspondent Scott Bauer discuss the Wisconsin redistricting case, the Marquette Law School Poll and Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: What will it take for people to embrace actual journalism again?

Journalists and media owners can only do their part — re-engineering their business models and working hard to assure a strong, independent and authoritative press. It will be up to thoughtful people across the ideological spectrum to decide this thing is bigger than any garden-variety, left-right squabble. That will determine what kind of country — democracy really — we leave to our children and grandchildren.

Read More »

Christian Schneider: Yes, Scott Walker is an ‘education governor’ for Wisconsin

To the parents whose kids have been able to escape low-performing public schools in order to help their children, Walker is absolutely an “education governor.” Even by the metric most favored by Walker’s competitors — state spending — he comes out ahead. Wisconsin now spends nearly $600 million more per year on public K-12 education than it did in Gov. Jim Doyle’s last year in office.

Read More »