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Posted by Zach W on March 13, 2010, at 6:03 am
From my inbox: Community for Change and the League of Women Voters Wisconsin will sponsor a forum on “Money and Influence in American Elections” on Wednesday, March 24th at 7pm at Gateway Technical College in Racine. The forum will feature special guest speakers, Mike McCabe, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and Andrea Kaminski, Executive [...] Posted by MadCityMan on March 10, 2010, at 6:32 pm
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has analyzed Paul Ryan (R,WI-o1), much ballyhooed “Roadmap for America’s future” and has found it to be a dead-end for most American’s. The winners are the wealthy (given his donors, it isn’t too surprising)with the report stating: it would result in massive transfer of resources from the broad majority of American’s to the nation’s wealthiest individuals. Posted by Zach W on March 10, 2010, at 5:44 am
A couple of weeks ago, I pointed out the flaws in a recent study of Wisconsin’s public employee pension system. At the time the study was released, George Lightbourne, a former cabinet secretary in the Thompson administration who’s now associated with the right-wing think tank WPRI, touted the study as proof positive that Wisconsin’s [...] Posted by Zach W on March 3, 2010, at 6:34 am
Wisconsin Environment, a Wisconsin-based, citizen funded environmental advocacy group, works to protect Wiconsin’s air, water, and open spaces. The group is holding a town hall in West Allis event to discuss the Wisconsin Clean Energy Jobs bill, and the event will include a speech by Senator Sullivan as well as speeches about the economic [...] Posted by MadCityMan on March 2, 2010, at 4:18 pm
The National Journal has released its annual rankings of Congressional Vote Rankings for 2009. The Vote rankings are calculated based on an evaluation of each member’s votes on several key foreign policy, economic and social legislation in 2009. This posting looks at the rankings for the Wisconsin Congressional Delegation from most liberal to most conservative. Posted by Zach W on February 26, 2010, at 6:42 am
Best way to guarantee a financially stress-free retirement in Wisconsin? “Work for the government,” writes Kathleen Gallagher of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Gallagher goes on to note state public employees, such as public school teachers and state and city workers, receive hundreds of dollars per month more (on average) in retirement than higher-paid employees in the private [...] Posted by MadCityMan on February 25, 2010, at 1:11 pm
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new web site County Health Ratings that allows you to see where your county ranks on health factors and health outcomes. Posted by MadCityMan on February 24, 2010, at 4:35 pm
WI GOP Representative Paul Ryan is one of 19 Republicans to vote against greater competition for health insurance companies when he voted no on the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act. The Act passed by 406 to 19, but only after GOP gamesmanship that was attacked by Anthony Weiner, Representative from New York. Posted by Zach W on February 23, 2010, at 5:37 am
Just so we’re clear, I’m no fan of Wisconsin Act 28, which brought about sweeping reforms to Wisconsin’s Truth in Sentencing laws, including provisions that allowed for multiple early-release programs for inmates in Wisconsin prisons, including inmates convicted of violent offenses. Having made that point abundantly clear, I’d like to take at what Jessica McBride wrote [...] |
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