RwP: Interview with Madison Alder Bridget Maniaci and a Look into Michael Best & Friedrich

This week on Rants without Pants, an interview with Madison City Council Alder, Bridget Maniaci. I also take a look at the shady workings of the Republican law firm Michael Best & Friedrich.

00:00 – 17:19– Interview with Madison City Council Bridget Maniaci

Maniaci discusses the diversity of her district, how her age relates [...]

Bayfield County Board won’t support mining bill

The Bayfield County Board of Supervisors held an open meeting last night at the County Courthouse in Washburn, where they voted nearly unanimously to kill Resolution No. 2013-08, which would have expressed the Bayfield County Board’s support for the mining deregulation bill now before the Wisconsin Legislature (AB1 and SB1). The meeting room was packed [...]

A family’s experience with Planned Parenthood

From my email inbox comes this account of one Wisconsin family’s experience with Planned Parenthood. Two young adults walk into a Planned Parenthood near suburban Milwaukee in 2007. Faced with new realities about their future together, the young couple came that day to ask for help in a time of great need.

Neither one of [...]