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Scott Walker's challenge
on 11/20/09 at 9:00 am | At the "tea party" rally in Milwaukee last Sept. 19, Scott Walker tossed the crowd a chunk of red meat. "Some people put their faith in the government," thundered the Milwaukee County executive and Republican candidate for governor, drawing a predictable chorus of boos and setting up his next line. "But we put our faith in the people and the employers who make this country great." |
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The fight against factory farms in Wisconsin
on 08/14/09 at 9:00 am | John Peck, only half-joking, suggests Wisconsin's longtime slogan, "America's Dairyland," may need to be updated. The new slogan: "The Land of 10,000 Animal-Waste Lagoons." He also offers this nightmare scenario: "Can you imagine tourists driving up to Door County," asks Peck, executive director of Family Farm Defenders, a national organization based in Madison, "and having to endure the stench from manure lagoons produced by factory farms?" |
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Republican poster boy Paul Ryan
on 04/10/09 at 9:00 am | Paul Ryan's strong adherence to conservative orthodoxy has made Ryan "a rising star" in the Republican Party, according to the conservative Washington Times. But Ryan's growing appeal is based on more than ideology: He is able to deliver the Republican pitch smoothly and sincerely, without adopting Newt Gingrich's sneer or Rush Limbaugh's sometimes cruel self-righteousness. |
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'Not free of blame': Paul Ryan's role in the meltdown
on 04/10/09 at 9:00 am | Rep. Paul Ryan has consistently backed deregulatory policies favored by the financial industry. These policies set the stage for the sub-prime housing debacle, which in turn toppled major Wall Street banks that had invested heavily in "derivatives" that were supposed to divide up the risk of the sub-prime mortgages. |
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David Newby hopes to lead labor's comeback
on 01/30/09 at 9:00 am | In 1991, Chicago labor lawyer Tom Geoghegan wrote a popular and powerful book, Which Side Are You On?, with the despairing subtitle, "Trying to be for labor when it's flat on its back." Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President David Newby has felt that despair over the past three decades of plant closings, wage cuts and union-busting. But he's convinced the labor movement has the potential to rebound. |
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NewPage paper mill closing has left Kimberly, Wisconsin fighting for its life
on 10/17/08 at 9:00 am | The village of Kimberly, on the northern edge of Lake Winnebago in the Fox Valley, epitomizes the small, almost idyllic Wisconsin town. Kimberly is a hybrid of the nostalgic past and the fast-paced present, combining an old-fashioned soda fountain at a local pharmacy right out of a Norman Rockwell painting with the standard modern shopping mall. |
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General Motors: The death of the auto industry in Wisconsin
on 07/04/08 at 8:00 am | For southeastern Wisconsin, the auto industry became a foundation of working-class prosperity and power, producing excellent wages and benefits that allowed thousands of workers to send their kids to college, secure a stable retirement and develop a strong voice inside the plant and in Wisconsin politics. |
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General Motors: Missing in action
on 07/04/08 at 8:00 am | General Motors' planned new wave of shutdowns represents an escalation of its corporate decision to effectively secede from the United States. While it remains headquartered in Detroit, GM has wiped out some 85% of its U.S. jobs since 1990. |
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A 'signature injury' ignored
on 05/15/08 at 9:00 am | Joan and Doug McDonald of Neenah expected their 24-year-old son, James, to come home last Thanksgiving. And he did — in a body bag. |
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Impasse likely on health-care plans
on 01/24/08 at 10:00 am | Efforts to alter health insurance in Wisconsin will likely go nowhere in the remaining part of the 2007-08 legislative session, only to become a source of further contention in the fall elections. |
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Sorry, your job's been outsourced!
on 11/02/07 at 10:00 am | Greg Diederich, who worked at Rayovac's Madison packing and distribution center for 17 years, vividly recalls a party hosted there in 2002. Workers were served cake and ice cream, and given flashlights to thank them for improving productivity. |
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The canadian experience
on 05/10/07 at 10:03 am | Business Week summarized its 2005 poll in these terms: “67% of all Americans think it’s a good idea to guarantee health care for all U.S. citizens, as Canada and Britain do, with just 27%
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Possibilities for reform
on 05/10/07 at 10:00 am | After a long winter for health-care reform following the failure of the Clinton plan in 1994, a number of proposals are suddenly blooming at the state level in Wisconsin and across the nation. |
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Sick system
on 05/10/07 at 9:53 am | Jack Lohman is a lifelong Republican and retired medical-services CEO who has a new mission in life: preventing Wisconsin business from committing "economic suicide" by resisting health-care reform. |
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