Skip to main content

Recent comments

User login

Navigation

Who's online

There are currently 0 users and 0 guests online.

Featured States News

RootsWire is a new collaboration of bloggers aggregating their sites into a nation-wide news reporting system.

In Wisconsin, "Job-Creation" Means Rewards To Republican Special Interests

October 3, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
More bills are tossed by the Governor and legislature into the special session on job-creating that have nothing to do with creating jobs except in corporate donors' front-offices, lobbying, law and accounting firms.

Cue the campaign fund-raising letters - - so there may be a job or two added in the direct mail houses come election time.

The Journal Sentinel headline and deck describing this are direct and jaw-dropping:
Bills limiting lawsuits added to Legislature's jobs session

Measures would cut interest rate, curb medical cases

 The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters last week got it right:

More Damage To The Physical And Moral Environmental In Formerly-Progressive Wisconsin

October 3, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
A judge says the law and process to get rid of offensive Native American mascots and nicknames is "silly."

The Governor, with a big advantage in the race to #1 in the PolitiFact "False" race to the top (scout's honor!), is trying to sneak into adoption more environmental degradation and weakened law under the guise of job creation.

Every day in Wisconsin there is more evidence that the state has lost its moral center.

Lake Michigan Should Not Suffer A Daily Dose Of Tons Of Coal Ash

October 2, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
The routine dumping of coal ash into Lake Michigan every day during the shipping season from the boilers of the Manitowoc, WI-to-Ludington, MI steam-powered ferry gets Sunday, page-one exposure in the Chicago Tribune.

Boaters who throw their garbage into the lake would and should get cited, but the Badger gets a pass for burning 55 tons a day and discharging overboard 3.8 tons of coal ash - - and, in fact, the pollution that comes out of the smokestack even has a separate legislative exemption from Wisconsin lawmakers.

How big a dose of pollution is this?

The Trib says..".the Badger dumps nearly 4 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan — waste concentrated with arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxic metals. During its spring-to-fall season, federal records show, the amount far exceeds the coal, iron and limestone waste jettisoned by all 125 other big ships on the Great Lakes combined."

In the name of nostalgia for the last steamer working Lake Michigan?

One Wisconsin Now Sends One Wisconsin Greetings Over Camp Randall Sunday

October 2, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/images/RecallScottWalker.org.jpg

Offensive Nicknames An Issue In Wisconsin, Texas

October 1, 2011 by The Political E...

Original Author: 
(James Rowen)
So Wisconsin and Texas make news in the offensive-names department.

I wonder if any Wisconsin folk will call the whole Texas thing "silly?
Premium Drupal Themes by Adaptivethemes