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Why is Ryan upset about job growth?
Cap Times editorial

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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Libby Lewis helped make Dane County beautiful
Cap Times editorial

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.

Feb 07, 2012 | 5:00 am | Loading…
As Walker hires criminal defense team, he should level with Wisconsinites
Cap Times editorial

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.

Feb 06, 2012 | 5:00 am | Loading…

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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Dave Zweifel's Madison: County's Cultural Affairs Commission getting a simple new name
For 35 years, its title has been a mouthful and all too often people were unable to even come up with its correct name. So this week the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission is doing something about that conundrum. It's changing its name to simply "Dane Arts" and at the same time launchin…
Plain Talk: Senate should reject secrecy on campaign donations
In recent years there have been several attempts, fortunately few of them successful, to make it more difficult for the people of Wisconsin to view the information collected by their governments. The latest is a bill authored by Sen. Glenn Grothman, a West Bend Republican.

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.

Feb 08, 2012 | 4:30 am Loading…

John Nichols: ‘Uprising’ dissects state’s historic protests
My new book, “Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street,” will be published Feb. 14 by Nation Books, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group.
John Nichols: Chrysler Super Bowl ad features Wisconsin union rally, but edits out union signs
The images from Madison were taken from a historic video by Madison photographer Matt Wisniewski. Chrysler used the award-winning video with permission, but the union presence — and some Wisconsin history — were lost in translation.

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.

Feb 06, 2012 | 5:30 am Loading…

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