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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...

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Op-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...

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Op-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...

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Op-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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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...

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Op 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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