Tag: Wisconsin
Emergency protests planned to stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP’s ‘shocking...
"Warning to our friends across the country: what happens in Wisconsin doesn't stay in Wisconsin. The GOP (and Kochs) use the state as a petri dish for terrible hard-right ideas. If this works, it'll spread elsewhere."
The key to Tammy Baldwin’s landslide re-election? Exposing her opponent’s shady...
Targeted with $14 million in outside spending, the Wisconsin senator fought back by tagging her opponent as a servant of special interests.
How Tammy Baldwin, target of $14 million in outside spending, sent...
Her campaign made few stumbles, concentrated on the concerns of working families, defined the candidate and her opponent early, and spoke to voters in rural and urban Wisconsin, providing a blueprint for 2020 candidates.
Wisconsin oil refinery explosion injures at least 15 people
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has sent a four-person team to investigate the incident.
Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal enriches billionaires with taxpayer cash
“Growth, thy name is suffering.”
Scott Walker set to sign Koch anti-regulations bill in Wisconsin
“The so-called REINS Act will undoubtedly move Wisconsin towards a rule-making process that will become marred by industry lobbyists with political agendas."
BREAKING: Wisconsin may bring the Koch brothers one state closer to...
Legislators are debating whether to call for a constitutional convention, a prize of corporate interest groups.
Wisconsin Senate passes Koch-backed REINS bill that would benefit Koch, other...
There are concerns about the bill's ability to potentially “grind the regulatory process to a halt.”
ALEC’s push for a constitutional convention reaches Wisconsin
The risks of a constitutional convention in this day and age far outweigh the benefits.
Wisconsin leads on climate research, even as agencies cut science from...
“If you’re not recognizing that burning fossil fuels is causing climate change, then you’re not looking for solutions that reduce climate change.”
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How corporations hope to eviscerate workers’ right to strike
Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.
‘Death sentence for women and families’: US court blocks domestic violence gun ban
The court ruled that the law prohibiting people with domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns "fails to pass constitutional muster," and that the ban is an outlier "that our ancestors never would have accepted."
Can the Military-Industrial Complex be tamed?
Cutting the Pentagon's budget in half would finally force the generals to think.
Department of Veteran Affairs exceeds goal of providing safe, stable homes to veterans in...
The VA permanently housed 40,401 homeless veterans.
Nearly 14,000 Nigerian farmers and fishers sue Shell for destroying their livelihoods with oil...
Individuals and institutions from two communities have filed claims against Shell, calling on the company to clean up the devastating pollution and compensate them for its effects.