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Category: Wisconsin
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How about re-establishing the Mitchell Park Domes as the city’s icon? For years, it had been used to symbolize Milwaukee, only to be deposed by the Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum and its spreading wings on the lakefront. Yes, the Domes are in need of serious and costly repairs, but the dramatic geodesic structures are more…
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Kenneth A. Germanson, president emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society, prepared this paper for the May 22, 2019, public input session at Kenosha concerning the proposed Wisconsin Historical Museum to be built in Madison. The state of Wisconsin was born and grew into a Great State thanks to the working people who toiled on the…
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Rather than being content to sit back and cry in their beer over the 2016 election losses, some 200 or more activists gathered in Stevens Point on a cool summer weekend to see if they could fashion a way to restore Wisconsin to its former place as a beacon of progressivism. For the most part,…
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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…
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Maybe it was the drag of the long debate, but Republicans supporting the right-to-work law used some weird arguments. “It’s for your own good,” they said over and over again to the union members and the Democratic legislators who opposed the bill as the debate continued in the Wisconsin Assembly overnight into Friday morning. (March…
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said that God is guiding him. I’m wondering whose God he is listening to. Here’s what Walker told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt in answering a question about when he’d reveal his decision to run for President (as quoted in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jan. 8, 2015): “I think with what…
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The phrase “union bosses” has been popping up in the pages of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Such a tired old phrase it is, too! For most of the previous century, the words were used by managements to discredit union organizing drives, to undercut strikes and to break union ranks. For the Journal Sentinel to regress…
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It’s hard to forget certain dates. Today, April 4, is one of them. It is exactly 46 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I remember exactly where I was when I learned of his death in Memphis, where he was gunned down on the balcony of the Loraine Motel while participating…
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Myths continue to dominate discussions of the so-called right-to-work laws, as witnessed by letters to the editor and comments from columnists who should seem to know better. The principal myth is in the name, “Right-to-work,” since the law confers no right to a job for anyone! It’s an ancient bit of clever marketing by pro-business…
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My sleep-deprived brain is just racing with thoughts on this cloudy November morning in Milwaukee. Most Promising Moment for the Future: The rights of women were advanced, as they now will hold nearly 20 seats in the 100-seat U.S. Senate. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin became the first female U. S. Senator from our state and…
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