Author: Joanne Brown

NOTE: I sent this letter to the Regents today. I was not able to log in to the website for the Presidential search, as I am no longer part of the UW community. Dear Regents,  I watched the open forum yesterday with James Johnsen, who has been recommended to the…

Since his father’s recent death, and since his election loss on November 6th, Scott Walker has been helping his mother move, reading (and disseminating) Bible verses, and looking at some of his parents’ memorabilia. I hope that while he takes this journey through time and deals with the loss of…

Or more accurately, “The Trouble with the Republican Response to the Foxconn Proposal.” Rep. John Nygren summed up the majority Republican sentiment following the announcement of Foxconn’s decision (or is it really a decision?) to invest in Wisconsin. When Sen. Minority Leader Jen Shilling tweeted her concerns, saying “$3 billion…

I follow Scott Walker on Twitter, not because I am an admirer, but because I want to see what messages he is trying to convey to his devotees and to the state at large. And I recently noticed an inexplicable number of visits to public schools – you know, those…

The UW Board of Regents, in order to protect and preserve its role as the governing body of the University of Wisconsin System, must reject Scott Walker’s budget proposal in full. The sometime-governor is once again attempting illegitimately to exert control over the UW System, contrary to the organizing statutes….

I was working all day in Ward 65, in the City of Madison. When we finally finished remaking ballots and tallying votes, Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold easily had more than 90% of the vote. We had one vote for Jill Stein, out of about 2700 cast. Then the poll…

The response of local Republican “leaders” to Donald Trump’s gross conversation about his pursuit of women tells us a great deal about about their suitability for their own positions. Margaret Farrow is a University of Wisconsin Regent. She is one of the people charged with leading the UW System in…

As so often happens. Christian Schneider’s premise from which he builds an “argument” is wrong. And starting from a false premise leads, almost inevitably, to a false conclusion, doesn’t it? In his most recent column, arguing for (I think) eliminating tax loopholes, Mr. Schneider claims, “progressives think earnings belong to…

A recent comment by our sometime governor caught my eye last week. In an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Mr. Walker indicated that he “plans to vote in Milwaukee County” this election. But is Mr. Walker still a resident of Milwaukee County? Let’s consider this question. State law defines voter residence. Chapter 6.10, Wis. Stats., provides…

The sum total of Rebecca Bradley’s statement of “apology” for her published screeds against AIDS victims, gays and lesbians, Bill Clinton, and anyone else who deviated from what she perceived as the righteous path in 1992, is this pitiful statement: I was writing as a very young student, upset about…