Day: February 27, 2014

I am working on another post related to the opposition of Common Core…but decided to put it aside after I got the email embedded below on Monday. Common Core should be a boon to education in this country. It will set some standards on student achievement that make sense for…

Yesterday actor and comedian Seth Rogen gave funny but moving testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing on Alzheimer’s disease. During his testimony, Rogen shared the story of how the disease has impacted his mother-in-law, and he described what he called “the real ugly truth of the disease,” telling how by…

Though news of the massive rally in North Carolina on February 8th ( organized by the HKonJ coalition, the folks who brought us last years ” Moral Mondays ” protests),  barely registered a blip on the national media radar, it had a quite an impact on folks in Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley. After…

For VJC.

What follows is a guest blog by reader Mark Bye. Recently, Wausau Daily Herald and Gannett published another in its series of articles tailored to fuel the “us vs. them” fire as it relates to public employees. This particular article dealt with a practice pejoratively referred to as “double-dipping” by…

This is worth a watch.