Day: May 16, 2013
Sen. Tammy Baldwin endorses Mike Tate for DPW Chair
This certainly can’t hurt Mike Tate’s chances of being reelected as Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin loses over 22,000 private sector jobs in April
Yep, Gov. Scott Walker’s “laser focus” on creating jobs in Wisconsin is sure paying dividends… And another set of employment data – this one preliminary and subject to revision – showed Wisconsin losing an estimated 22,600 private-sector jobs during April of this year. In related news, according to the state…
Thursday Music: Cold Satellite
Where am I gonna be tonight? Shank Hall in Milwaukee, for Cold Satellite: Wisconsin native Jeffrey Foucault has teamed up (for a second time) with poet Lisa Olstein for a set of Americana-inflected tunes that are also damned smart. Openers tonight are fellow midwesterners The Pines, led by the son…
Thursday Music: Big Rock Candy Mountains by Haywire Mac
Given Harry McClintock (Haywire Mac) was devoted to the cause of industrial unionism, one wonders how he would respond to 21st Century globalization and the shunting of wage labor in the USA into untenable parameters…. More Harry McClintock from Smithsonian Folkways: Smithsonian Folkways – Haywire Mac – Harry “Haywire Mac”…
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