On Wis. judge to hear arguments in voter ID lawsuit
Posted on January 19 at 8:03 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Yes, freebird. You fought for all Americans, whether caring Progressive or Disaster Capitalist. American soldiers fight for our country rather than for one ideology or another. That's what makes us exceptional.
No, Fedup. This is a new story on an old theme. There were motions filed and heard yesterday that are being judged for the first time. Stop whining about the Gazette.
No, freebird. You don't need to carry a photo ID to be an American citizen. You're thinking about a different country altogether. "Papers, please," is not a part of the country we know and love.
On Parkview moves toward closing Footville, Newark schools
Posted on October 13 at 4:59 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
RM_4-- These are not "growing pains." This is what strangulation looks like. The schools-for-profit folks that back the current WisGOP agenda have a vested interest in seeing public schools fail so they can cherry-pick the students for their diploma mills.
At some point all that will be left for the public schools will be those who need a heightened evel of care and those who need a heightened level of discipline. If you think costs-per-student are high now, just wait for Walker's tools to wipe out universal public education.
Posted on October 10 at 10:22 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Please don't let Charlie around science. He's not very good at it and he's unnerving the easily misled.
On Evansville refutes land grab claim
Posted on April 4 at 6:40 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Snoozer- This map labelling the city's possible utility service areas is meant to prevent sprawl. To say that it promotes the sprawl that unrestrained rural subdivisions bring is just wrong. It is the responsibility of the City to its residents to act to prevent their interests for the future.
To call this a land grab when it annexes nothing and is meant as guideline more than action document is sensationalistic and wrong. The document is one that was called for when the original Smart Growth Plan was adopted and is required by that plan. While it shows a large area surrounding the city, it still marks far less than the statutory 1.5 mile limit.
To call a document that was first discussed in Plan Commission more than 18 months ago and is now scheduled for not one but two public hearings, a document that has been posted on the city's website for more than a month, "Forced through," is intemperate at least and ill-informed at best. There have been public comment periods on the agendas of nearly every council meeting since 2003. If you haven't taken the opportunity to share your thoughts with the city on this matter it's not for lack of effort by the Mayor or Administrator.
Posted on March 27 at 6:56 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
This column is just one more example of the overfocus on "creating a stronger business climate" in America. This is the kind of anti-intellectual thinking that gives us the troubles that Wisconsin is in now.
Instead of celebrating learning for its own sake and recognizing the contributions of researchers in the softer sciences this columnist expects us to focus more on the almighty technological progression of our employer's systems. And what have we gotten from creating the most efficient workforce on the planet? We've seen shrinking job opportunities in an outsourced industrial base. We get temp jobs with no benefits and we get smaller and smaller real wages for working families. Wage differentials rise while real earnings plummet.
Cepeda states that worker in "women's jobs" earn half as much as those with other degrees without asking the relevant questions. "Why is this so?" "Why do we value left-handed relief pitchers more than good social workers?" This lack of curiosity isn't good enough for a stronger citizenry.
As the GOP continues its war on the poor and erodes the power of the middle class we'll see an increasing need for good social workers, primary educators and health care professionals. The answer is not to stop educating these people but instead to build up our wage scales, to balance management and labor pay rates and to stop attacking the front-line workers who serve us.
Cepeda makes a good case for a strong tech school system but universities were never meant to be tech schools. As the for-profit education industry takes hold in America they'll be looking to build as many non-questioning, non-threatening, non-thinking students as possible so that Janesville and Kenosha can become more like Suzhou, Guadalajara and Tha Chalom; just a few more sweatshop towns in a perfect world of Capitalism.
On TODAY is the IDES OF MARCH! Historic fact! CONTEMPORARY situation?
Posted on March 15 at 1:37 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
If you'll notice John, Governor Numbskull is now saying he promised 250,000 Private Sector jobs. All those people he reclassified at Commerce? Created by Walker as PS jobs.
It's all funny math with Walker. People tried to tell the state about the damage Walker has wrought in MKE County but all they wanted to hear was his drumbeat of "Jobs, jobs,jobs."
Calling for civility now is pointless. To ask Wisconsin families to stop fighting because the bully is still standing won't happen. I fear that, rather than being over, we are seeing the very beginnings of incivility.
On Wis. state senators mum on talks over union bill
Posted on February 15 at 3:21 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Just as important are the policy provisons buried in this bill.
Walker will create three dozen new positions at the agencies, outside civil service, so that he can appoint his cronies to Chief Legal Counsel, Chief Info Officer and Legislative Liason. What is the chance that any agency will have an independent voice after that?
Walker is taking control of Medicaid, Medicare, Badgercare and Seniorcare personally so that he can make cuts with no legislative oversight.
This bill gives Walker's office the power to sell off the state's power generating facilities without PSC or legislative review and create new power companies to compete with our community owned power providers and drive up rates to investor-owned levels.
This bill disbands the UW Hospitals and Clinics Board and puts control of those organizations under the control of the Governor's office.
This is more than just a budget bill. This is a radical restructuring of power in Wisconsin that takes oversight from the people and puts it in the Governor's hands. Even if you approve of what Walker is doing you need to ask yourself if you could live with this the next time the Democrats take the statehouse.
Call your senators. If you can find your assemblyman tell him what you think about this nasty power clutch. There is still time to halt this travesty but Friday will be too late. Do it now.
On Bill opponents, supporters clash at hearing
Posted on February 15 at 3:11 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Why would you make a distinction between public employees and "private citizens?" Every public employee is a taxpaying citizen and many are married to workers in the private sector. They are not different than anyone.
They buy groceries in the same stores, they buy gas at the same stations and they subscribe to the same newspapers. Which do you think will be first to go after Walker's $4000/year tax increase on these workers?
On Walker releasing budget at private business
Posted on February 15 at 3:08 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Walker wants to be anywhere other than at the Capitol where he might have to face people who disagree with him.
It's odd that he's still touting that tired "Job Creation" campaign promise when all he's done is hurt one Wisconsin employer after another.
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On Wis. judge delays decision on voter ID lawsuit
Posted on January 19 at 1:09 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
kcole, your insecurity and paranoia isn't really addressed in the 14th Amendment where everyone gets equal protection under the law, whether they have their documents in order or not. This is still America, after all.