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Right wing takes Wisconsin court seat in a strident hate campaign
Across the Illinois-Wisconsin border April 2, the contrast couldn’t have been starker. While Chicago elected its new mayor Lori Lightfoot, a black former prosecutor who is also gay, the Wisconsin Supreme Court contest, in results still being challenged, nipped into office the Scott Walker appointe... → Read More
Wisconsin court blocks Republican power grab
It was a mild surprise for legal observers but it was a major vindication for new Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. A state judge on March 21 declared illegal the lame duck laws passed in December by the GOP-dominated legislature. → Read More
Despite roadblocks Wisconsin Gov. Evers pushes forward
Nationally, the Democrats are fighting about how progressive should progressives be or if there is room for moderating instincts, for maneuvering cautiously toward the progressive promises that got you elected. The debate can be both severe and transient. → Read More
Wisconsin Dems struggle to throw off GOP-imposed shackles
That was some Christmas present the Wisconsin GOP tried to give new governor Tony Evers -- a barbed wire fence to tie him up in a moral conundrum. When they realized the Democrats had defeated the GOP’s aging golden boy Scott Walker and swept all statewide offices, the Republicans took advantage o... → Read More
Foxconned Wisconsin learns the Trump promise was a lie
MILWAUKEE - There has to be a factory. It’s intrinsic to Foxconn’s deal with the Wisconsin Economic Development Commission (WEDC, the scandal-plagued GOP replacement for a state commerce department). Otherwise, the company doesn’t get that extraordinarily rich $4.1 billion in state tax money. → Read More
Should Pelosi bend or should Trump?
The longer the government shutdown lasts, the more it gives rise to false equivalency – that both sides in the gridlock are equally to blame. The hope that talking things out will solve the problem is going to increase as the ripple effects for the whole economy grow beyond the 800,000 workers wor... → Read More
Wisconsin Republicans cementing their reversal of election results
A century ago, Wisconsin was famous for progressive thought. Now the state makes national headlines for its horror stories – Making a Murderer, Slender Man stabbings, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, the state GOP. The last spent painful hours Dec. → Read More
Wisconsin’s Sen. Baldwin gets strong backing of Emily’s List
MILWAUKEE - Meet two political minds tag-teaming: “The most important issue facing voters Nov. 6 is health care.” “The best grassroots campaign tactics are sharing the voters’ actual stories about their family illnesses.” “Women will make the difference this year. → Read More
Laughter and apprehension as Wisconsin’s Walker seeks third term
MADISON, Wisc. - As he seeks a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker’s campaign strategy has evoked laughter and apprehension – laughter because he is so shamelessly contradicts his own past in seeking to make nice with the progressive forces lined up against him, yet apprehension becau... → Read More
SCOTUS attack on workers requires voter resolve in 2018
In May, Trump’s dark-side gift to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, penned a major decision that should galvanize the American public to change Congress in 2018 in favor of the Democrats. That sounds backwards. → Read More
Paul Ryan quitting changes equation in Wisconsin race
Paul Ryan’s quitting changed the basic equation in the race to replace him in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District. His Speaker of the House role is moving out of the state in any case. → Read More
Wake-up call for Trump-voting farmers: Trade war will hit them hard
In its usual genteel headline fashion, the bluntly left-wing Daily Kos noted: “Trump Flips Farmers the Bird.” That description of what Trump’s trade war would do to the agricultural regions that gave him so much election support had particular resonance in Wisconsin. → Read More
Trump’s steel tariffs: For the workers or the steel bosses?
President Donald Trump’s imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs has sparked debate among labor leaders, union activists, and progressives. Questions about the effectiveness of the tariffs as a policy and about Trump’s political motivations have resulted in a variety of opinions. → Read More
Despite Foxconn, GOP shouldn’t count on union votes
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. - In an October story for Peoples World, I quoted a Wisconsin union leader that under the Foxconn deal the stench of “right to work” would last longer than any construction jobs for union workers, even though Foxconn’s initial lavish spending would be on buildings, roads and u... → Read More
In Wisconsin, will Foxconn “mouthwash” hide stench of “right to work?”
Trade unions are constantly buffeted by financial power plays. In Wisconsin they are being branded as victims of political expediency by the progressive community yet supported by many members because they fight for jobs. → Read More
Are Schumer and Pelosi foxes in the Trump henhouse?
If you are attuned to religious allusions, then working with Trump in any way is dealing with the devil. If you are more like me, my allusion would be entertainment oriented –the old TV series “Maverick. → Read More
What’s wrong with the Wisconsin Foxconn deal
To understand what’s wrong with the Wisconsin Foxconn deal you first have to understand its appeal, its lure to the entire Midwest, its promise of revitalizing a region of the country much maligned as “The Rust Belt,” where major manufacturers fled and the hunger for robust modernized technolo... → Read More
Randy Bryce has the bulldog bite of a working-class politician
At first he was just a viral Internet sensation, a mustachioed national vessel demonstrating all that was wrong with Paul Ryan. But from that launch platform announcing his run against Ryan, ironworker Randy Bryce has developed the bulldog bite of a working man politician, using attack tweets – th... → Read More
Trump’s Foxconn Wisconsin jobs deal doesn’t hold up under scrutiny
Republican leaders have been priming and pumping the possibility of a serious jobs coup for months. Trump signaled “a big deal” during a visit to Wisconsin in June. Gov. Scott Walker has been dropping cryptic hints for weeks. → Read More
Is it the Russians or perhaps the gangsters that are coming?
I haven’t been so flummoxed by Russian names since I struggled through “The Brothers Karamazov” as a teenager. I was a voracious young reader, ripping through Dickens and even Steinbeck, but Dostoyevsky kept me flipping pages backward. → Read More