John Nichols: Speech police seek to gag UW campuses

If the state Senate and governor embrace Vos and Kremer’s wrongheaded way of thinking, an ugly combination of intimidation and uncertainty will define the discourse on campuses where avid debate, and serious competition in the battle of ideas and ideals, should be the order of the day.

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TUE AM Update: Johnson holds telephone town hall on Senate health care bill; GOP legislative leaders to meet on budget

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers   Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says though Wisconsin’s high-risk pool wasn’t perfect and “did exclude people,” it provides important lessons that Congress needs to consider. Johnson said in a telephone town hall meeting yesterday he’s still not sure

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Wisconsin State Capitol

Panel looks back on Capitol restoration as building turns 100 years old

http://www.wiseye.org/mp4stream/EVT/EVT_170622_WISPOL_LUNCH.mp4 It took a new tunnel leading out of the state Capitol to solve one of the major issues contractors struggled with when renovating the 100-year-old building. For years, architect Laura Davis said, trucks idled on the entrance coming up East Washington Avenue and carried the trash out of offices

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John Nichols: Speech police seek to gag UW campuses

If the state Senate and governor embrace Vos and Kremer’s wrongheaded way of thinking, an ugly combination of intimidation and uncertainty will define the discourse on campuses where avid debate, and serious competition in the battle of ideas and ideals, should be the order of the day.

Read More »