Ruth Conniff: More than a muffin: Getting serious about Teacher Appreciation Week

For far too long, we’ve taken the people who raise, teach and care for children for granted, thanking them with muffins, sticky hugs, warm wishes and poverty wages. Lately, even the hugs and warm wishes are on the decline, as teacher-bashing and a divisive crusade for “parents’ rights” has become a plank in the national Republican platform — a trend that started right here in Wisconsin.

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Mike McCabe: With friends like these

Here in Wisconsin, a volunteer corps of citizens calling itself Wisconsin United to Amend has been working tirelessly to persuade local communities to hold advisory referendums giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to remedy the commercialization of free speech.

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Ruth Conniff: More than a muffin: Getting serious about Teacher Appreciation Week

For far too long, we’ve taken the people who raise, teach and care for children for granted, thanking them with muffins, sticky hugs, warm wishes and poverty wages. Lately, even the hugs and warm wishes are on the decline, as teacher-bashing and a divisive crusade for “parents’ rights” has become a plank in the national Republican platform — a trend that started right here in Wisconsin.

Read More »

Mike McCabe: With friends like these

Here in Wisconsin, a volunteer corps of citizens calling itself Wisconsin United to Amend has been working tirelessly to persuade local communities to hold advisory referendums giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on whether the U.S. Constitution should be amended to remedy the commercialization of free speech.

Read More »