When Will The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Drop Rick Esenberg’s Blog?

There’s been some conversation on Facebook about Christian Schneider’s op ed pieces in MJS. Liberal posters have accused him of being a hack and a direct mouthpiece of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. MJS editor Ernst-Ulrich Franzen stepped up to defend him as a paid columnist. All well and good…well…

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When Is It OK to Know Who Is Influencing Public Policy?

This week State Senator Jon Erpenbach agreed to drop any appeal of the open records case filed against him. The very conservative John K MacIver Institute for Public Policy had requested Sen. Erpenbach’s emails surrounding the protests in Madison in 2011 around the passage of Act 10. Originally the Senator…

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DPI Has Voucher Supporters All A Roil

At the behest of the federal Department of Justice who are investigating possible discrimination against students with disabilities, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction requested voluntary information from Wisconsin’s voucher schools. This has voucher proponents and GOP legislators…well…seeing red! …the DPI’s request that was sent to schools last week —…

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Oak Creek city administrator: city’s budget “not sustainable”

This story is a perfect example of why the “no tax increases” and “cut, cut, cut services” mentality of so many conservatives in local government is so fatally flawed (emphasis added). The cost of city operations and services is not sustainable and elected officials and residents will need to make…

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Chris Rockwood to hold meet & greet on June 24

From my email inbox comes news of a meet and greet event for Democrat Chris Rockwood, who’s running to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner in Wisconsin’s fifth Congressional district. West Bend—Voters in Wisconsin’s 5th Congressional District will have a chance to meet the progressive candidate for the U.S. House…

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Jon Richards pledges to end Walker-Schimel culture of corruption

From my email inbox comes this press release from Democratic Attorney General candidate Jon Richards in regards to yesterday’s revelations that John Doe prosecutors accused Republican Gov. Scott Walker of running a “criminal scheme” in which his gubernatorial campaign illegally coordinated campaign activity and expenditures with right-wing outside groups. Wisconsin…

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Scott Walker to Karl Rove: “We are running 9 recall elections”

Yesterday news broke regarding allegations Gov. Scott Walker was at the heart of a “criminal scheme” that involved the illegal coordination of Gov. Walker’s campaign and outside groups, including directing the flow of money, in order to influence the recall elections here in Wisconsin in 2011 and 2012. As a…

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