WHAT HAPPENS IN AN IOWA CAUCUS?
(Katy Harle lives in Bettendorf, Iowa)
What a night! It was exciting to see such a great turnout at our local Democratic caucus, people of all ages, including some parents who brought their elementary and middle-school-age children to watch and learn. The caucus was to begin promptly at 7 p.m.
Lucky for us we arrived early and checked in within minutes. About 6:35 p.m. the line was very long. Evidently a lot of people came who needed to register; some of us were already registered. We carry our registration card with us. Our registration to vote allows us to attend ...
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID.
WISCONSIN CAN HELP WORKING FAMILIES WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME
(Mandy Wright is a candidate for the 85h Assembly District of Wisconsin)
When I was a kid growing up just outside of Wausau, my parents knew how to be frugal, so we’d have enough for the future. My mom grew up on a farm and made a ham dinner that turned into sandwiches, then into ham salad, and finally, she’d boil the bone for split pea soup. Now split pea soup is my kids’ favorite dinner.
We should apply the same frugality to our hard-earned tax dollars, so our families and communities will have enough for the future. Despite all the fiscally conservative ...
JUDGE KLOPPENBURG FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is running for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She faces a primary challenge on Tuesday, February 16, with general election on April 5.
Kloppenburg received a B.A. in Russian studies from Yale University. After receiving a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University in 1976, she spent several years in the Peace Corps as a rural development planner in Botswana. Upon return to the United States, she established the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children in upstate New York ...
WEALTH AND MONEY, PART IV: THE CREATION OF MONEY AND DEBT
The prescient fears of Jefferson and Stamp have come to fruition. In America and around the world, governments are crippled with debt. Nation upon nation is said to have overspent and now must pay the price.
WALK-IN FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17
Last September, Milwaukee educators, parents, students and community citizens showed their support for public schools in Milwaukee when they held walk-ins at over 100 public schools in Milwaukee. As a result, school takeover attempts were stopped.
The county executive and takeover commissioner publicly committed to support MPS and took over only one empty building.
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, the movement goes national as families and educators at over 700 schools – in Wisconsin and across the nation – walk in. Together people are standing up against school ...
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 gerrymanderi...
WAUSAU MAYORAL CANDIDATES NEED TO DEBATE
In a press release today, I made a call for a public debate among the five mayoral candidates. Wausau residents have a right to hear, in a public forum, where each of the five mayoral candidates stands on issues that matter most to residents.
City Hall, under the current administration, has restricted the average resident’s ability to learn about and be involved in local government affairs. The CBL/Wausau Center meeting which only allowed about 20 members of the general public to attend is one recent example.
The people shouldn’t have to beg or demand to be ...
UWS Outsourcing One Year Later
In May of 2014, the University of Wisconsin at Superior announced plans to outsource the campus custodians and grounds keepers as part of budget cutting plans. Throughout 2014 controversy raged about the necessity and wisdom of this action. In the end 27 people were laid off and their jobs were contracted out to a private, out-of-state company. What has been the impact of this action one year later? What happened to the laid off workers? What kind of jobs does the contractor offer? Did taxpayers save money? What has been the impact on Superior and the local ...
25 Years of Bombing Iraq
Sunday, January 17 marked 25 years of bombing people in Iraq. It should be obvious that bombing is not effective and is not the answer. It does not solve problems and it does not keep anyone “safe.” A quarter-century later war continues.
Bombing began in 1991 with the first Gulf War. It continued with a decade of a no fly zone. Then came the 2nd Gulf War from 2003 to 2011. The U.S. today is bombing Iraq and Syria in a vain effort to defeat ISIS.
At the same time we’ve created millions of refugees, sent billions of dollars in weapons to the region, and ...
