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David Fladeboe: Activate the voters

With the new administration taking shape, advocacy groups across the state are asking how do we operate in the new normal? How are we going to get legislation passed? The answer is simple: activate people at the grassroots level!

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Bill Kaplan: How to stop Foxconn giveaway deals

The Foxconn deal concocted by Trump and then Wisconsin GOP Governor Scott Walker was heralded as the “eighth wonder of the world”. They promised high-paying factory jobs to make big television flat screens. One big catch – Wisconsin taxpayers had to pony up more than $4 billion, including direct cash payments, to Foxconn.

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Paul Fanlund: Is the national press being unfair to Donald Trump?

Scott Klug and I share similar backgrounds — we’re both 1950s-born baby boomers from Midwestern manufacturing towns with master’s degrees in journalism and careers in media. His was in television in Seattle and Washington, D.C., before his time as a news anchor in Madison in the 1980s. But brother, do we part ways in assessing today’s media.

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Tim Sheehy: Foxconn: A work in progress

We are aware of the evolving dynamics and the changing nature of the employment mix on the Foxconn campus — more engineering and design talent, and fewer “plant floor” jobs. Foxconn is an innovative company on the leading edge of a rapidly-changing industry, so it’s natural for their plans to evolve.

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Jim Maas: Leave peaceful people alone

The purpose of government is supposed to be to protect life, liberty, and property from violence or fraud. the government should not be concerned with keeping people from vice or bad habits and regulating or prohibiting activities that take place between consenting adults.

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David Fladeboe: Activate the voters

With the new administration taking shape, advocacy groups across the state are asking how do we operate in the new normal? How are we going to get legislation passed? The answer is simple: activate people at the grassroots level!

Read More »

Bill Kaplan: How to stop Foxconn giveaway deals

The Foxconn deal concocted by Trump and then Wisconsin GOP Governor Scott Walker was heralded as the “eighth wonder of the world”. They promised high-paying factory jobs to make big television flat screens. One big catch – Wisconsin taxpayers had to pony up more than $4 billion, including direct cash payments, to Foxconn.

Read More »

Paul Fanlund: Is the national press being unfair to Donald Trump?

Scott Klug and I share similar backgrounds — we’re both 1950s-born baby boomers from Midwestern manufacturing towns with master’s degrees in journalism and careers in media. His was in television in Seattle and Washington, D.C., before his time as a news anchor in Madison in the 1980s. But brother, do we part ways in assessing today’s media.

Read More »

Tim Sheehy: Foxconn: A work in progress

We are aware of the evolving dynamics and the changing nature of the employment mix on the Foxconn campus — more engineering and design talent, and fewer “plant floor” jobs. Foxconn is an innovative company on the leading edge of a rapidly-changing industry, so it’s natural for their plans to evolve.

Read More »

Jim Maas: Leave peaceful people alone

The purpose of government is supposed to be to protect life, liberty, and property from violence or fraud. the government should not be concerned with keeping people from vice or bad habits and regulating or prohibiting activities that take place between consenting adults.

Read More »

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