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Trade unions are constantly buffeted by financial power plays. In Wisconsin they are being branded as victims of political expediency by the progressive community yet supported by many members because they fight for jobs. The contention centers on two big projects – Milwaukee’s new $500 million arena for the Bucks and the Foxconn project.
State requirements for nurses, plumbers, CPAs and other jobs could be scrapped.
Carol Lenz and Jim Bowmen’s recent op-ed, “Choice Helps Few Public School Students,” ignores a number of important details about school choice in the state of Wisconsin.
Here are key arguments Supreme Court will hear. How would you rule?
At the 86th annual Wisconsin Farmers Union State Convention this past January, members of the family farm organization named nonpartisan redistricting as a special order of business for 2017, voicing support for the creation of a nonpartisan entity to perform all future redistricting for city, county, state and federal offices in the state of Wisconsin.
Before redistricting, Republicans controlled the State Assembly 59 to 39 (with 1 independent who voted with Republicans) in 2010. The so-called gerrymandering rendered their advantage in the next election to 60-39 — a pickup of one seat.
Court-ordered redistricting would re-establish on paper some fairness to Wisconsin elections and public life, but how do you get back or repair a decade of punitive one-party Republican rule that rigged the system and took over?
If altering the mechanics of a semi-automatic rifle to make it automatic is illegal, then how can it possibly be legal to purchase a $50 part to do the same?
A political culture in which repeal of the Second Amendment is on the table is one in which stricter gun safety laws are politically feasible even if actual repeal never happens.
The swamp keeps getting deeper and deeper.
Health care reform and UW reorganization are big issues Walker and his opponent may punt.
Bradley Foundation and Kochs buy a new UW-Madison economics institute.
Student loan debt continues to grow in Wisconsin, and the student loan borrowers who worked hard to get their education and took on the personal responsibility to pay for it are still being treated unfairly by the system. Walker telling people to “call a bank” wasn’t a solution then, and it’s not a solution now.
It is my hope that when Whitford v. Gill goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, party politics will be the last thing on their mind. Instead, let’s hope they put American citizens first and ensure every American the Constitutional voting rights our forefathers endowed us with.
Hopefully the US Supreme Court will see past the false outrage of the sinking political left and allow the State of Wisconsin and all other states take responsibility for what the Constitution allows.
Liberals’ desire to live near their government jobs, with public transit, neighborhood public schools and government funded recreation facilities have surrendered vast swaths of the state to Republican voters.
The country is being damaged by a government that really doesn’t want to govern, but because everyone is being distracted by Trump and his tweets, few are paying attention.
For more traditional conservatives horrified by Trump’s behavior, his level-headed judicial picks make the rest of his tenure even more frustrating.
Suits by citizens now trying to restrict public information.
Through the years, some co-ops have chipped away at the human element — trust — that kept it all together. Restoring that trust is the remedy for what ails our cooperatives. Seeking a legislative end-run that will diminish cooperative trust even further is not.
Trade unions are constantly buffeted by financial power plays. In Wisconsin they are being branded as victims of political expediency by the progressive community yet supported by many members because they fight for jobs. The contention centers on two big projects – Milwaukee’s new $500 million arena for the Bucks and the Foxconn project.
State requirements for nurses, plumbers, CPAs and other jobs could be scrapped.
Carol Lenz and Jim Bowmen’s recent op-ed, “Choice Helps Few Public School Students,” ignores a number of important details about school choice in the state of Wisconsin.
Here are key arguments Supreme Court will hear. How would you rule?
At the 86th annual Wisconsin Farmers Union State Convention this past January, members of the family farm organization named nonpartisan redistricting as a special order of business for 2017, voicing support for the creation of a nonpartisan entity to perform all future redistricting for city, county, state and federal offices in the state of Wisconsin.
Before redistricting, Republicans controlled the State Assembly 59 to 39 (with 1 independent who voted with Republicans) in 2010. The so-called gerrymandering rendered their advantage in the next election to 60-39 — a pickup of one seat.
Court-ordered redistricting would re-establish on paper some fairness to Wisconsin elections and public life, but how do you get back or repair a decade of punitive one-party Republican rule that rigged the system and took over?
If altering the mechanics of a semi-automatic rifle to make it automatic is illegal, then how can it possibly be legal to purchase a $50 part to do the same?
A political culture in which repeal of the Second Amendment is on the table is one in which stricter gun safety laws are politically feasible even if actual repeal never happens.
The swamp keeps getting deeper and deeper.
Health care reform and UW reorganization are big issues Walker and his opponent may punt.
Bradley Foundation and Kochs buy a new UW-Madison economics institute.
Student loan debt continues to grow in Wisconsin, and the student loan borrowers who worked hard to get their education and took on the personal responsibility to pay for it are still being treated unfairly by the system. Walker telling people to “call a bank” wasn’t a solution then, and it’s not a solution now.
It is my hope that when Whitford v. Gill goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, party politics will be the last thing on their mind. Instead, let’s hope they put American citizens first and ensure every American the Constitutional voting rights our forefathers endowed us with.
Hopefully the US Supreme Court will see past the false outrage of the sinking political left and allow the State of Wisconsin and all other states take responsibility for what the Constitution allows.
Liberals’ desire to live near their government jobs, with public transit, neighborhood public schools and government funded recreation facilities have surrendered vast swaths of the state to Republican voters.
The country is being damaged by a government that really doesn’t want to govern, but because everyone is being distracted by Trump and his tweets, few are paying attention.
For more traditional conservatives horrified by Trump’s behavior, his level-headed judicial picks make the rest of his tenure even more frustrating.
Suits by citizens now trying to restrict public information.
Through the years, some co-ops have chipped away at the human element — trust — that kept it all together. Restoring that trust is the remedy for what ails our cooperatives. Seeking a legislative end-run that will diminish cooperative trust even further is not.
