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Retired labor union official, newspaper editor/reporter, and community worker. Also community activist.

Category: Voter Laws

  • Can Progressivism Survive in Wisconsin?

    For the first time since Ronald Reagan beat Walter Mondale in Wisconsin in the 1984 Presidential election, the state went red. How could that happen?  It’s simple arithmetic: lack of voter turnout. Hillary Clinton could have easily won the Badger State if those voters who could be expected to favor her had turned out.  She…

  • Democracy for the Elites

    The signs are unmistakable: the United States is sliding more and more deeply into a caste system, not much unlike the Indian system that created a caste of “untouchables.” An untouchable was unlikely to ever climb out of the hole into which society placed him or her. Now, this blessed nation which became great during…