PART II: OFFICIAL MINUTES OF THE MARATHON COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ANNOUNCING RETENTION OF VON BRIESEN & ROPER, S.C. TO INVESTIGATE
(Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the Marathon County Executive Committee meeting on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. in Assembly Room B-105, 500 Forest Street, Wausau. The committee and other individuals went into closed session to discuss a personnel matter before they returned to open session and the chairperson announced that Von Briesen & Roper, S.C. has been retained by the county to do an investigation on an employee matter.
Recording secretary excused from closed session meeting. Non-committee members attend. View minutes below.
The official ...
PART III: THE OFFICIAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE VOTE LEADING TO BRAD KARGER’S 30-DAY SUSPENSION
(Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Marathon County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Marathon County Courthouse. You can learn about the specific amendments and votes of that evening. The original can be viewed here: http://www.co.marathon.wi.us/Portals/0/Departments/MCB/Archives/County%20Board/Board%20of%20Supervisors/2016/COBD_20160719_Minutes.pdf )
The meeting (the open-session portion) is available to watch online on the public access website: https://waac.viebit.com/#CnlyLh4XzEDd
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VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
VOTE TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
Be sure to vote Tuesday, August 9 in the primary election for congressional and state legislative races. Be sure to bring your voter ID. It is important to vote.
Your vote matters.
The winner goes to the November 8 ballot.
Early voting (in person absentee voting) began Monday, July 25 and ends Friday, August 5.
Vote at your municipal office.
There is some good news. On July 19, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee decided that voters without a Voter ID should be able to cast a ballot by signing an affidavit.
The affida...
Income Inequality
“That is not fair!” How many times have we heard that from our children or perhaps at work? Human beings are hard wired with a sense of fairness-of what is right and what is wrong. Most people believe that they should be fairly compensated for the work that they do. Most workers believe that a Corporate Executive Officer (CEO) of a company should get a little more than the average worker since they run the company. But over the last sixty years, a little more has turned into a whole lot more and we should be very concerned about this.
Since 1950, the ratio of ...
WHAT IS TO BE DONE with the POLITICS OF RESENTMENT?
(This is the fourth article based on the book The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker by Katherine Cramer.)
Katherine Cramer says “So the problem, for me, is this. We are in a time of increasing economic insecurity and of stark policy bias in favor of the affluent, and yet the politics of resentment draws our attention to our animosity toward each other rather than in ways in which the political system is not working for anyone but the very few.”
1. Policy makers need “to reassess what is going on in rural ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART XVI THE DEATH THROES OF EMPIRE
“Men and women of the United States armed forces in armored vehicles patrol the streets of Baghdad. They pass in the way of so many who have come before them: the Egyptian charioteers of Ramses II, the Macedonian phalanx of Alexander the Great, the Roman legionnaires of Caesar and Trajan, the Crusaders of Richard the Lion-Hearted, the legionnaires of Napoleon, the Camel Corps of Lawrence of Arabia. All of these have come through the Middle East. Many of them have come with the best of intentions, by their lights, to bring stability, even freedom to the Middle East. All ...
REJECT FEAR, CELEBRATE INCLUSIVENESS
Last week, I took my oldest son to New York City to celebrate his high school graduation. Together, we stood at the base of the Statue of Liberty – soaking in the words that embodied our nation’s ethos 240 years ago at its founding: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.
Think about what those words mean for a moment. In this beautiful poem, the United States of America is literally calling out to the rest of the world, stating clearly that we welcome those who have been downtrodden, those in war torn lands, those who ...
RETIREMENT PLANNING IN WISCONSIN
(Joyce Luedke is part of POWRS (Protect our Wisconsin Retirement System.)
Here is my summary of our June 24th POWRS Renewal Meeting with Karen Holden—UW-Madison Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Consumer Science.
Karen Holden referred to her research on retirement planning in the following articles.
http://www.ncpssm.org/RetirementSecurity/karen-holden-bio.pdf
http://aging.wisc.edu/research/affil.php?Ident=24
I. Financial literacy education.
A. This is crucial for the populace as a whole, but essential for people who do their own planning. Many ...
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
HOW CAN WE SUPPORT WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
ATTEND THE SUMMER SUMMIT ON AUGUST 23
By WIS. PUBLIC EDUCATION NETWORK
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23
8:30 A.M.
WAUWATOSA, WISCONSIN
We need you to help us make our Summer Summit the education event of the year. This is our opportunity to come together to connect, learn, and strategize.
What can we do where we live to support Wisconsin public schools? What can we do together as a statewide coalition? How can we maximize our impact? What's happening right now that we need most to understand and connect around?
At the ...
SPECULATING ON THE EU VOTE
Last week the British voted to leave the European Union. The next day stock markets all over the world declined precipitously. The DOW in this country dropped 610 points in one day. According to Reuters news agency, global stock markets “lost” $2 trillion in value the day after the vote. Why did this happen? What does it mean?
Wild fluctuations like this often occur with stock markets. The news media, pundits, and investment hucksters, of course, always have explanations. The usual spin is that “investors” have lost confidence, or they are “taking profits,” ...
