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  1. Why is Ryan upset about job growth? Why is Ryan upset about job growth?
    For the past several years, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has complained that the U.S. economy has been growing at too slow a rate. Now, as unemployment rates drop and job creation seems finally to be accelerating, Ryan is suddenly fretting about the prospect that the economy mig…
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  2. Libby Lewis helped make Dane County beautiful Libby Lewis helped make Dane County beautiful
    Dane County is home to a fabulous park system and an award-winning E-way around the south side of Madison in no small thanks to a wonderful woman who passed away Feb. 1, Elizabeth "Libby" Lewis.
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  3. As Walker hires criminal defense team, he should level with Wisconsinites As Walker hires criminal defense team, he should level with Wisconsinites
    Gov. Scott Walker's campaign hired former U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic more than a year ago to provide legal cover in the face of the John Doe probe into alleged wrongdoing related to the governor's 2010 campaign.
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Cap Times columnists

Plain Talk: It’s time to stop demonizing public workers
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families did a study last fall showing how the state’s decision to balance the budget on the backs of public workers would hit employees with the lowest incomes the hardest.
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John Nichols: Walker, ALEC take war on workers national
Two days after Ohio voters overwhelmingly rejected Gov. John Kasich’s anti-labor agenda by 61 percent to 39 percent in a referendum, the nation’s primary proponent of the war on worker rights opened a new front.
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MORE CAP TIMES COLUMNISTS

Spencer Black: Walker shows true colors in push to delay recall
I hope you’re sitting down because this may shock you: I agree with Scott Walker.
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E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Citizens United catastrophe
We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and it doesn’t work.
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Charles Lane: Scott Walker, progressive

The 2012 U.S. elections could be the most exciting and consequential in years. In Wisconsin, we might be looking at political Armageddon.

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Theda Skocpol: Romney is the right’s cup of tea after all

If Romney wins the GOP nomination, as seems likely, we will read countless media obituaries for the tea party, explaining how the movement tha…

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Lisa Subeck: Walker foe must stand up for women’s health

No one could have predicted the extent of the attacks that Gov. Scott Walker and his extreme anti-choice colleagues in the Legislature would l…

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Stan Jones: College completion is top issue — less than half graduate

President Obama’s plan to make college more affordable is noble in intent but misses the mark in design. If the president and Congress were to…

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James K. Galbraith: Minimum wage of $12 would be good for GOP and economy

Raise the U.S. minimum wage. By a lot — let’s say, to $12 an hour, from the current rate of $7.25.

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Mark Klipstein: State shouldn’t waste more on outsourcing

Everyone agrees the state of Wisconsin has been wasting tens of millions of dollars outsourcing public projects that could be done in-house mo…

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