57 results for author: Middle Wisconsin Editorial Board


Vote on August 9th

Remember to vote on August 9, 2016, and bring your IDs!

PROGRESSIVE FREEDOM CAMPAIGN COMING TO WAUSAU

Please mark your calendar for May 15, Sunday, from noon til 4:30 p.m. for the Progressive Freedom Campaign at the Central Wisconsin Airport Conference Room. Progressive Freedom Campaign is designed to help grassroots groups to organize and communicate effectively. Progressives throughout the state are connecting with each other. The workshop provides tools to put people and communities over power politics. Real political change starts in local communities. Local people come together around shared progressive values. Many of you are already involved in your local group. Now you can glean wisdom and connect with other grassroots groups of Wiscon...

ENBRIDGE ENERGY’S PIPELINES COMMUNITY DISCUSSION

Panelists will focus on education, public safety, environmental, and property owner concerns.

CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN MEETING

Hello Friends, You are invited to an upcoming meeting that local Citizen Action of Wisconsin members and I are holding next week Wednesday April 20 6:00 PM at the Rib Mountain Goodwill Store. We need your input, can you join us? We want to discuss a new topic in Wisconsin politics, the Citizen Action of Wisconsin Organizing Cooperative. But first, the back story. Early in 2015 a number of leaders in Milwaukee decided that it was time to try something new to make Wisconsin a better place to live and work. We knew that we needed to launch a new way to organize progressives that did not rely only on large donors or distant foundations, that was ...

Wausau’s Child Poverty Crisis

Clips and statistics from the latest Wausau mayoral debate related to the increasing child poverty rates in Wausau. Statistics are cited as American Community Survey Estimates from http://factfinder.census.gov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5ICbdM5DE

VOTE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 5th

Vote on Tuesday, April 5. This is an important election that includes a variety of races. Remember your voter ID!

USE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE ON APRIL 5


FAIR ELECTIONS PROJECT

Our current gerrymandered legislative districts are the “worst partisan gerrymanders in modern American history.” In many cases, our votes in such a district are meaningless. In the last election, Democratic votes outnumbered Republican votes. Yet two-thirds of the State Assembly seats are held by Republicans. Something is drastically wrong. Here is good news. The Fair Elections Project has been launched to oppose partisan gerrymandering. The Project aims to ask the courts “to implement a standard that can measure when there’s too much partisan gerrymandering, violating the Constitutional rights of the citizens of a given state.” ...

STAND UP, STAND OUT— A CALL TO COMMUNITY SERVICE CELEBRATE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY on JANUARY 18

The theme of 2016 celebration of Dr. King is Stand Up, Stand Out—a Call to Community Service. Through words and music, Wisconsin celebrates Dr. King’s life and legacy. The time is Monday, January 18 at noon in the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Madison. Broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio, www.wpr.org and on Wisconsin Public Television, www.wpt.org –live streamed on www.wpt.org. The one-hour highlights broadcast airs on the WPT main channel at 9 p.m. We remember Dr. King with some of his quotes: “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” “The function of education is to teach one ...

WISDOM FROM RETIRING SENATORS

Five years ago, most of us were retired teachers, enjoying our retirement with grandchildren, gardening and other pursuits. Then February 2011 changed everything. We became politically active and began to write. At the end of 2015 we are still active and still writing. We have connected with many other progressives throughout our beloved state of Wisconsin. We will win because we must. What keeps us going? For one thing, history does. Read the article in this issue about President John Adams and his Patriot Act. Another thing are the speeches given by Wisconsin State Senators at their retirement in 2014. Republican Senator Dale Schultz said, ...