Scott Walker’s rubber stamps: highlight, tweak, copy, paste
It’s true they acknowledged working together to make Scott Walker’s anti-union budget repair (sic) bill better, but take a look at the remarks from State Sen. Van Wanggaard, (R-Racine), here, and State...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Stepp’s Slothful Style of Running DNR
Cathy Stepp. Photo from the Wisconsin DNR. Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker said he put former GOP state senator and developer Cathy Stepp atop the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to bring a...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Climate Change An Afterthought for DNR
Coal pile. Photo by Dave Reid. I checked today again on climate change information provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to see if anything has been added since Scott Walker‘s...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Walker Has Failed to Create Jobs
Gov. Scott Walker. Photo from the State of Wisconsin. I know we live in a truth-free culture where fake “news” may have tipped the Presidential election, but I want to pass along the reality that new...
View ArticleOp Ed: DNR Censors All Climate Change Info
Gov. Scott Walker. Photo from the State of Wisconsin. Climate change censors driven by science denial and obeisance to polluters these days at the GOP-managed, Scott Walker-redefined “chamber of...
View ArticleOp Ed: Only Wisconsin Scrubs Climate Change info
Smokestacks. Photo from NASA. Over the past two weeks, this blog has broken the story that Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources had scrubbed all references to climate change from a long-standing...
View ArticleOp Ed: The Anti-Green Governor
Scott Walker In late December there was a story about Ohio GOP Gov. John Kasich breaking ranks with Republican legislators and vetoing a bill which Kasich feared would stifle green jobs. For which...
View ArticleOp Ed: The Un-Greening of Wisconsin
The Un-Greening of Wisconsin Here are a few points of context for the preliminary state approval of a Wisconsin frac sand mine that will destroy a Jackson County pristine wooded wetland, and also...
View ArticleOp Ed: Why Walker Killed DNR Magazine
Wisconsin Natural Resources Word began circulating on February 9th that Gov. Scott Walker‘s upcoming state budget would wipe out the popular, subscriber-supported magazine of the Department of Natural...
View ArticleOp Ed: Schimel Gives Amnesty to Big Polluter
Brad Schimel. Photo from the State of Wisconsin. Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has let the 3M corporation off without any financial penalty for air pollution violations during 2014 and 2015...
View ArticleOp Ed: Walker’s Policies Hurting Small Farms
A dairy farm in Wisconsin. Photo by William Garrett / Creative Commons. Some things to think about the next time you buy a gallon of milk or turn on your kitchen tap. You have probably read about a...
View ArticleOp Ed: The Brown Water Republicans
Manure from large dairy operations has caused drinking water contamination in Brown and Kewaunee counties in recent years. Photo by Carolyn Betz of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. No...
View ArticleOp Ed: We Like Suburban Segregation
Light-rail “would bring in strangers who are not only a threat to your property, but to your children,” said George Watts. Photo by Jeramey Jannene. Marc Eisen‘s recent Journal Sentinel op-ed about the...
View ArticleOp Ed: Trump Great Lakes Cuts Hurt Supporters
Algae bloom on the Great Lakes. Donald Trump‘s so-called budget which also reflects Paul Ryan‘s end to public services would cancel funding for Great Lakes restoration. Twenty percent of the world’s...
View ArticleOp Ed: Don’t Give Away Acres of State Park
The bright clouds over the sand dune trails at Kohler-Andrae State Park, Wisconsin. Photo via Good Free Photos The threat to pristine land next to and even inside a popular state park on the Lake...
View ArticleOp Ed: Loss of Talgo Train Hurts Foxconn Deal
Talgo Trainsets. Photo by Garrick Jannene. Republicans say they believe in austerity and fiscal responsibility. Bunk. Deep into this story about the return of a train maintenance facility in Milwaukee...
View ArticleOp Ed: Plague of Floods Caused by Climate Change
Flooding on the Sugar River State Trail. Photo from the DNR. For starters, some perspective on the flooding problem in Wisconsin. Many roads and other infrastructure washed out in 2016 floods are still...
View ArticleOp Ed: Will Stepp Join U.S. EPA Wrecking Crew?
Cathy Stepp. Photo from the State of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Cathy Stepp has confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that she’s been discussing joining the Trump...
View ArticleOp Ed: Will Walker Learn From Hurricane Harvey?
Flooding from Harvey in a residential area in Southeast Texas. Photo from the U.S. Department of Defense. The horrible images broadcast from Houston, Beaumont, and other Texas communities after...
View ArticleOp Ed: Schimel and Pruitt, the Anti-Environmentalists
Brad Schimel and Scott Pruitt. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel and federal EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt make quite a team when it comes to rolling back clean air and water protections: *At...
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