On Effort to decertify union is driving a wedge into Janesville-based business
Posted on May 9 at 10:44 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
"Bandemer acknowledged that wages and benefits are about the same at the union and non-union stores.
But that’s just a Woodman’s tactic to make the union appear ineffective...." How has the union been effective? Do they have to keep threatening strikes to force union store wages to keep pace with the non-union stores? It looks to me like it's the union driving the wedge here - between employee and management. Naahh, unions don't do that. There's no money in that.
On Effort to decertify union is driving a wedge into Janesville-based business
Posted on May 9 at 10:06 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
"Earlier this year, more than a third of the 950 employees at the stores signed a petition to decertify United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 1473." Was this before or after the hiring of Fred Grubb, management consultant?
On Proposal alters truancy ordinance
Posted on May 8 at 7:06 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
What do kids do when they skip school?
On Success of Rock County jail diversion programs requires new staff
Posted on May 7 at 8:12 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I thoroughly oppose using community service as a punishment. Community service is a privelege that should be reserved to those who do it of their own free will.
On Poll: Majority of Wis. residents want universal care
Posted on May 7 at 7:19 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Universal health care is like being forced to shop at a large supermarket that has only one checkout open.
On GM employment levels fall short of those needed for state grants
Posted on May 6 at 5:28 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
The Chevy Volt is on a fast track to production. Who's going to build it in the US?
On Defendant claimed 8 pounds of pot was for personal use
Posted on May 3 at 11:42 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
thekid: So if you obey most laws it's ok to break some?
On Defendant claimed 8 pounds of pot was for personal use
Posted on May 3 at 11:21 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Crafty: Whew, you obviously spend an awful lot of time on pro-pot websites gleaning blizards of propaganda. Surprised nobody has discovered yet that legal pot can eliminate global warming.
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I need to correct just one of your bits of misinformation: Dane county did not decriminalize pot. From stopthedrugwar.com:
"The Dane County, Wisconsin, District Attorney's Office will no longer prosecute simple marijuana possession cases involving less than 25 grams (nearly an ounce) of pot. Prosecutors said it wasn't an effort to decriminalize marijuana, merely recognition of limited resources and setting priorities for the office."
That shouldn't surprise anybody who knows Madison - they're so enlightened.
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If nobody broke pot laws it would cost nothing to enforce them.
On Defendant claimed 8 pounds of pot was for personal use
Posted on May 3 at 6:27 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
thekid: Let me try this again: the pro-pot cult is hanging it's entire argument for legalizing pot on whether or not it has medicinal value. Medical heroin is available but people are not allowed to manufacture their own. Dynamite has beneficial uses but people are not allowed to possess it without proper authority. To which your sterotypical reply is: the government just makes these things illegal so they can get bribes from the companies who make the legal stuff. What made you so suggestible to such a paranoid theory?
The government could get money by taxing pot and controlling its manufacture and sale in the same way it controls the sale and manufacture of alcohol. So there's no need to get it from bribes. Weed, like heroin and dynamite, is controlled because casual use by anybody is considered a threat to both the users and others in society whom the government has an obligation to protect.
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Like almost every issue in life there is disagreement over this issue too. But it takes little imagination to understand why people are not allowed to obey just the laws they approve of and break the laws they don't approve of. There would be no law.
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I repeat the bottom line: while you say there is no harm in making weed legal, the rest of us say there is even less harm in making it illegal. There is really nothing else to discuss.
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On The era of big Clintons is soon over
Posted on May 27 at 3:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Don't kid yourselves - Hillary's not done. She quit running for 2008 some weeks ago - she's now running for 2012. She won't get out of the public eye for the rest of this campaign, and when Obama gets defeated this time, he will be done and Hillary has a clear shot for 2012. She'll be campaigning for the next 4 1/2 years.