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Dave Cieslewicz: Biden exits to applause

Joe Biden got, as expected, sustained applause and chants of “Thank you, Joe!” at last night’s Democratic convention in Chicago. The subtext was that most of the delegates were thanking him for leaving the ticket.

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David Blaska: Will it be a split-screen kind of convention?

It was 10 years ago that the first black President berated America for its institutionalized racism while the magic of television split his screen with the “mostly peaceful” civil rights demonstrators looting orange Stoli and fire bombing hair styling salons in Ferguson MO. Nothing says Equal Rights like burning down your own neighborhood.

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Scott Klug: Require Americans to work at polling places like jury duty

Many volunteer poll workers are political junkies, so this random selection drags people into the process who are casual voters and less passionate about the political parties, their platforms and candidates. Try rigging an election when half of the people in the room are only there because they faced prosecution if they didn’t show up.

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James Perry: Loss of two-year campuses hits low-income families

The low-cost, high-quality university education provided by the most highly educated professors who have been dedicated to classroom performance is disappearing from the Wisconsin landscape. If we were really concerned about quality and affordability, we would invest in these former two-year campuses rather than shedding them.

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Dave Cieslewicz: Trouble ahead for GOP

Democrats are over-stating the importance of their defeat of two Republican backed constitutional amendments in this week’s primary. It doesn’t mean everything they want to think it does, but it doesn’t mean nothing.

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David Blaska: Making sense of Tuesday’s elections

We were ready to say the voices of moderation — scratch that — the voices of sanity had prevailed except that in that Green Bay congressional district, guy named Tony Wied defeated two solid Republican legislators: former state Senate president Roger Roth and State Sen. Andre Jacque.

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Dave Cieslewicz: Biden exits to applause

Joe Biden got, as expected, sustained applause and chants of “Thank you, Joe!” at last night’s Democratic convention in Chicago. The subtext was that most of the delegates were thanking him for leaving the ticket.

Read More »

David Blaska: Will it be a split-screen kind of convention?

It was 10 years ago that the first black President berated America for its institutionalized racism while the magic of television split his screen with the “mostly peaceful” civil rights demonstrators looting orange Stoli and fire bombing hair styling salons in Ferguson MO. Nothing says Equal Rights like burning down your own neighborhood.

Read More »

Scott Klug: Require Americans to work at polling places like jury duty

Many volunteer poll workers are political junkies, so this random selection drags people into the process who are casual voters and less passionate about the political parties, their platforms and candidates. Try rigging an election when half of the people in the room are only there because they faced prosecution if they didn’t show up.

Read More »

James Perry: Loss of two-year campuses hits low-income families

The low-cost, high-quality university education provided by the most highly educated professors who have been dedicated to classroom performance is disappearing from the Wisconsin landscape. If we were really concerned about quality and affordability, we would invest in these former two-year campuses rather than shedding them.

Read More »

Dave Cieslewicz: Trouble ahead for GOP

Democrats are over-stating the importance of their defeat of two Republican backed constitutional amendments in this week’s primary. It doesn’t mean everything they want to think it does, but it doesn’t mean nothing.

Read More »

David Blaska: Making sense of Tuesday’s elections

We were ready to say the voices of moderation — scratch that — the voices of sanity had prevailed except that in that Green Bay congressional district, guy named Tony Wied defeated two solid Republican legislators: former state Senate president Roger Roth and State Sen. Andre Jacque.

Read More »

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