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Time to celebrate three Wisconsin heroes who have made extraordinary contributions to standing up for working people and against plutocracy: Bob Amsden, Rebecca Cooke and Tom Nelson.
As we celebrate Labor Day, it’s the perfect time to go beyond giving workers a symbolic pat on the back with a long weekend. Instead, let’s give more workers a real stake in the companies they help build. A new campaign, Expanding ESOPs, is working to do just that, and I hope sharing my story helps move their effort forward.
Business was growing for our aluminum foundry. Then came the tariffs.
When it comes to fair wages, Wisconsin should not be playing catch up. Wisconsin should lead.
Conservative jurist Rebecca Bradley will not seek another term — a gut punch to Republicans.
When I’m asked for advice, three things I share. First, over prepare for every class. Have a detailed lesson plan, but also a Plan B. Second, be yourself, not some stultified version of what you think a teacher should be. Third, always do what you think is right for your students, not what you’re told by a colleague, the author of the textbook or an administrator long gone from the classroom.
Supreme Court’s ‘constitutional revolution’ unleashes wave of new regulations, new costs
If you disagree with something a judge does when they are exercising their judicial authority, you can file an appeal, but you can’t have them arrested.
America is armed to the teeth and wishes to remain so, regardless of the risk, regardless of the human cost.
President Trump has signed an executive order directing a military ‘response’ to ‘civil unrest’ in U.S. cities
ABC’s apprentices can graduate, be promoted, and rise to the ranks of management, or even ownership, all while keeping the benefits and resources they’ve earned during their years of work. T
Wisconsin is now at a fork in the road when it comes to mission-based, educational autonomy for private choice schools.
Workers who pulled long shifts, kept the plant going through the pandemic and took pride in producing high quality, Mexican-style cheeses — queso fresco, queso blanco, quesadilla and panela — now feel betrayed.
The partisan wolves are busy ripping whatever political advantage can be gained from this tragedy.
Fifteen kids — one only eight years old — just filed a lawsuit in, of course, Dane County, claiming that, as children, they are particularly vulnerable to air pollution and fossil fuel-caused climate change.
Massive consumption obscured from public
The American heartland, not corporate elite, is the customer base.
There’s a political realignment going on around big companies, and it will reshape our economy. The question is how.
Now he threatens to send soldiers and federal agents to Baltimore and Chicago next.
BLS’s initial “preliminary” figures have overstated the number of jobs every single month this year by a combined 461,000 jobs! In other words, in just 6 months they’ve managed to create––from thin air!––78% of the jobs they created in 2024.
Time to celebrate three Wisconsin heroes who have made extraordinary contributions to standing up for working people and against plutocracy: Bob Amsden, Rebecca Cooke and Tom Nelson.
As we celebrate Labor Day, it’s the perfect time to go beyond giving workers a symbolic pat on the back with a long weekend. Instead, let’s give more workers a real stake in the companies they help build. A new campaign, Expanding ESOPs, is working to do just that, and I hope sharing my story helps move their effort forward.
Business was growing for our aluminum foundry. Then came the tariffs.
When it comes to fair wages, Wisconsin should not be playing catch up. Wisconsin should lead.
Conservative jurist Rebecca Bradley will not seek another term — a gut punch to Republicans.
When I’m asked for advice, three things I share. First, over prepare for every class. Have a detailed lesson plan, but also a Plan B. Second, be yourself, not some stultified version of what you think a teacher should be. Third, always do what you think is right for your students, not what you’re told by a colleague, the author of the textbook or an administrator long gone from the classroom.
Supreme Court’s ‘constitutional revolution’ unleashes wave of new regulations, new costs
If you disagree with something a judge does when they are exercising their judicial authority, you can file an appeal, but you can’t have them arrested.
America is armed to the teeth and wishes to remain so, regardless of the risk, regardless of the human cost.
President Trump has signed an executive order directing a military ‘response’ to ‘civil unrest’ in U.S. cities
ABC’s apprentices can graduate, be promoted, and rise to the ranks of management, or even ownership, all while keeping the benefits and resources they’ve earned during their years of work. T
Wisconsin is now at a fork in the road when it comes to mission-based, educational autonomy for private choice schools.
Workers who pulled long shifts, kept the plant going through the pandemic and took pride in producing high quality, Mexican-style cheeses — queso fresco, queso blanco, quesadilla and panela — now feel betrayed.
The partisan wolves are busy ripping whatever political advantage can be gained from this tragedy.
Fifteen kids — one only eight years old — just filed a lawsuit in, of course, Dane County, claiming that, as children, they are particularly vulnerable to air pollution and fossil fuel-caused climate change.
Massive consumption obscured from public
The American heartland, not corporate elite, is the customer base.
There’s a political realignment going on around big companies, and it will reshape our economy. The question is how.
Now he threatens to send soldiers and federal agents to Baltimore and Chicago next.
BLS’s initial “preliminary” figures have overstated the number of jobs every single month this year by a combined 461,000 jobs! In other words, in just 6 months they’ve managed to create––from thin air!––78% of the jobs they created in 2024.
