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October 1st, 2017 - 2:08 pm § in Donald Trump
Wisconsin restaurant owner advocates killing kneeling players
April 3rd, 2016 - 5:51 pm § in Misc.
Presidential leadership in biomedicine should be an issue in the Wisconsin primary
Opposing views of Clinton and Sanders on biomedical research Opinions about science matter. This especially true in the case of stem cell biology where Republican religious views of human life have obstructed an entire field of biology. Tomorrow’s primary is in the state where stem cell [...]
[...] December 24th, 2015 - 5:23 pm § in Politics
Wisconsin mayor makes a jackass of himself by calling Obama a “Muslim”
The cold wind-swept city of Superior, Wisconsin, perches on the icy shores of Lake Superior. It’s a place where giant ships use to load iron ore bound for midwest steel mills, although nowadays ship cargoes are more likely to be grain. And these days, a chill wind is blowing through city hall [...]
July 7th, 2015 - 4:17 pm § in Misc.
Wisconsin Republicans block access to public records
In Wisconsin, GOP legislators slipped language into the state’s budget bill at the last minute to seal many public records from scrutiny. The push for this sneaky legislative move is believed to have come from Gov. Scott Walker. Read the story here. Photo: These are your records, but you can&#[...]
June 25th, 2015 - 10:42 am § in Politics
It just got easier for nutcases to slaughter people in Wisconsin
“After signing two bills that loosen Wisconsin’s gun laws, Gov. Scott Walker defended the timing of his public event Wednesday, saying it had been scheduled before nine people were shot and killed last week in a South Carolina church. With his signature, the all-but-certain Republican presi[...]
February 18th, 2015 - 11:05 pm § in Politics
Gov. Walker’s fiscal policies force Wisconsin to miss debt payments
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, facing a $283 million deficit that needs to be closed by the end of June, will skip more than $100 million in debt payments to balance the books thrown into disarray by his tax cuts,” Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. “The move comes as Walker, 47, moun[...]
February 5th, 2015 - 4:02 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Radical Republicans: Gov. Walker redefines U. of Wisconsin’s mission
Scott Walker wants to be president. But that’s still a couple years away. Meanwhile, Walker wants to revamp the University of Wisconsin’s function by changing the statute defining its mission from “36.01(2) The mission of the system is to develop human resources, to discover and d[...]
February 2nd, 2015 - 4:15 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Wisconsin Moves to Privatize Its Universities
The Privatization of Higher Education Governor (and likely Presidential candidate) Scott Walker announces ($300,000,000 of cuts to Wisconsin higher education, offering in exchange greater “independence” from state regulation. What this is likely to mean is staff and faculty layoffs, tu[...]