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News reports about the chaos and bombast concerning yet another possible government shutdown looming in just four weeks underscore the continuing dysfunction in Washington.
It turns out that while Walker and the Republican insiders bet their future on an anti-labor agenda, the future has chosen to bet against them.
In the long sweep of history unions were a good thing. But they just aren’t nearly as important as they used to be and there’s no reason to think that they will reemerge as powerhouses, despite what may be happening at your local Starbucks.
By standing together in unions and organizing for a brighter future for our families, working people in every type of job from every corner of our nation are strengthening our democracy and renewing the promise of America for generations to come.
Everyone owes a debt to laborers and union organizers. They put their lives on the line for safe workplaces, an eight-hour work day, a five-day work week, insurance, disability benefits, fair wages, dignity and respect for manual labor.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Chair Don Millis writes that geopolitical polarization and candidate quality–not ‘rigged’ maps–explain large GOP legislative majorities.
The singer featured in Milwaukee’s Republican debate is opposite of Jason Aldean. Mistaking them is dividing America.
When a majority of the justices on the state’s high court are so clearly and openly violating the court’s own rules, state law, and the Constitution, they have forfeited their authority and surrendered their power to judge the affairs of the people of Wisconsin.
In central Wisconsin, the online newspaper the Wausau Pilot & Review, has amassed almost $200,000 in legal bills fighting a defamation suit brought by a Republican state senator.
Being woke is more than a hashtag, being “woke” must be a committed lifestyle.
For decades, Wisconsin has been at the epicenter of the movement to privatize education, pushed by the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, a mega-wealthy conservative foundation and early backer of Milwaukee’s first-in-the-nation school voucher program.
For all that has happened on the Milwaukee area education landscape in the last 35 years, great results have been delivered too infrequently.
Republican presidential candidates need to wake up and realize how far afield they are from the rest of the country on this issue.
So many young people have been sold a bill of goods on climate since they were young. We have to find ways to let them know that they’ve been told a lie.
With effects of climate change being seen across the globe, interest is reviving in nuclear fission as a source for clean, emissions-free power.
The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political and social circles alike. Here are five books by authors I found worthwhile.
The workers who live in our community are some of the hardest working, committed, skilled individuals in the entire state of Wisconsin.
It occurred to me this week that Laurel and Hardy’s travails could serve as a metaphor for the machinations surrounding the state Legislature that gerrymandering has saddled us with. Only Laurel and Hardy were funny; these guys are far from it.
The vast majority of Wisconsinites have an opinion about whether pot should be legalized or not — but based on what?
Top pay: $43 million for Harley’s CEO. Top pay in U.S.: Google exec’s $225 million!
News reports about the chaos and bombast concerning yet another possible government shutdown looming in just four weeks underscore the continuing dysfunction in Washington.
It turns out that while Walker and the Republican insiders bet their future on an anti-labor agenda, the future has chosen to bet against them.
In the long sweep of history unions were a good thing. But they just aren’t nearly as important as they used to be and there’s no reason to think that they will reemerge as powerhouses, despite what may be happening at your local Starbucks.
By standing together in unions and organizing for a brighter future for our families, working people in every type of job from every corner of our nation are strengthening our democracy and renewing the promise of America for generations to come.
Everyone owes a debt to laborers and union organizers. They put their lives on the line for safe workplaces, an eight-hour work day, a five-day work week, insurance, disability benefits, fair wages, dignity and respect for manual labor.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Chair Don Millis writes that geopolitical polarization and candidate quality–not ‘rigged’ maps–explain large GOP legislative majorities.
The singer featured in Milwaukee’s Republican debate is opposite of Jason Aldean. Mistaking them is dividing America.
When a majority of the justices on the state’s high court are so clearly and openly violating the court’s own rules, state law, and the Constitution, they have forfeited their authority and surrendered their power to judge the affairs of the people of Wisconsin.
In central Wisconsin, the online newspaper the Wausau Pilot & Review, has amassed almost $200,000 in legal bills fighting a defamation suit brought by a Republican state senator.
Being woke is more than a hashtag, being “woke” must be a committed lifestyle.
For decades, Wisconsin has been at the epicenter of the movement to privatize education, pushed by the Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation, a mega-wealthy conservative foundation and early backer of Milwaukee’s first-in-the-nation school voucher program.
For all that has happened on the Milwaukee area education landscape in the last 35 years, great results have been delivered too infrequently.
Republican presidential candidates need to wake up and realize how far afield they are from the rest of the country on this issue.
So many young people have been sold a bill of goods on climate since they were young. We have to find ways to let them know that they’ve been told a lie.
With effects of climate change being seen across the globe, interest is reviving in nuclear fission as a source for clean, emissions-free power.
The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political and social circles alike. Here are five books by authors I found worthwhile.
The workers who live in our community are some of the hardest working, committed, skilled individuals in the entire state of Wisconsin.
It occurred to me this week that Laurel and Hardy’s travails could serve as a metaphor for the machinations surrounding the state Legislature that gerrymandering has saddled us with. Only Laurel and Hardy were funny; these guys are far from it.
The vast majority of Wisconsinites have an opinion about whether pot should be legalized or not — but based on what?
Top pay: $43 million for Harley’s CEO. Top pay in U.S.: Google exec’s $225 million!
