by realize | Mar 9, 2011 | Hot Topics
March 9, 2011 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting Wednesday to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers, after Republicans outmaneuvered the chamber’s missing Democrats and...
by realize | Mar 8, 2011 | Hot Topics
Dear Colleagues, Hopefully you have been following the State budget discussions closely, as the outcome will directly affect all of us, perhaps catastrophically, if the Governor’s tax extension proposal does not make it to the ballot for a vote in June. Governor...
by realize | Mar 1, 2011 | Hot Topics
1) Vote on the new Resource Allocation Formula ratification. Ballots were mailed to your home at the end of last week. Please ensure you return your self-mailing postcard ballot no later than March 5th. For more information, visit www.tinyurl.com/2011RAF 2) Attend...
by realize | Feb 28, 2011 | Hot Topics
Richard Wolff and Max Fraad Wolff guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 January 2011 13.00 GMT If we permit public-sector workers to be scapegoated for state and city budget crises, we all stand to lose. Several hundred Camden, New Jersey firefighters and police officers were...
by realize | Feb 27, 2011 | Hot Topics
By PAUL KRUGMAN Here’s a thought: maybe Madison, Wis., isn’t Cairo after all. Maybe it’s Baghdad — specifically, Baghdad in 2003, when the Bush administration put Iraq under the rule of officials chosen for loyalty and political reliability rather than experience and...
