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Dr. Deer’s $125,000 Taxpayer-Funded Endorsement of Scott Walker

May 26, 2012 by Hematite After WCMC reported on Dr. James Kroll, a Texas wildlife biologist hired by Scott Walker as a “Deer Czar” to advise on Wisconsin’s deer management policies, Kroll came under intense scrutiny by not only the citizens of Wisconsin, but national media who picked up on the local story to spread […]

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Walker and Deer: a Rebuttal

[Editor’s note: the following statement was submitted by a reader as a rebuttal to the article “Walker to Deer Hunters: Pay Up or Get Lost.“] by Joel Anderson The article “Walker to deer hunters: pay up or get lost” is so full of half truths that it is difficult to know where to start. The […]

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Walker Betrays Hunters with Privatization Scheme

Deer hunting may soon join open government and good schools on the pile of Wisconsin traditions trashed by Scott Walker. Each November, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites take to the woods to hunt, thinning our large herd of white tailed deer. A love of the hunt crosses all social and economic boundaries. Indeed, in the […]

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Walker’s ‘Deer Czar’ Proposes Privatizing Hunting, Wildlife

Deer hunting may soon join open government and good schools on the pile of Wisconsin traditions trashed by Scott Walker. Each November, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites take to the woods to hunt, thinning our large herd of white tailed deer. A love of the hunt crosses all social and economic boundaries. Indeed, in the […]

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Walker to Deer Hunters: Pay Up or Get Lost

May 17, 2012 by Barbara With Deer hunting may soon join open government and good schools on the pile of Wisconsin traditions trashed by Scott Walker. Each November, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites take to the woods to hunt, thinning our large herd of white tailed deer. A love of the hunt crosses all social […]

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Sewergate Scandal Outrages Concord Residents

Outraged residents of Concord, WI packed the Town Hall on Monday night to voice their concerns about the stink raised by Ron Seely’s recent report in the Wisconsin State Journal. Seely was looking into the question of, “how the political and business ties of top DNR administrators appointed by Gov. Scott Walker are influencing their […]

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BREAKING NEWS: Wisconsin Mining Bill is Dead

March 16, 2013 by Barbara With According to the League of Conservation Voters, the controversial mining bill that passed through the Assembly but was stopped in the Senate is officially dead. A “public” hearing had been scheduled for Monday, March 19 in the Judiciary committee to discuss the consideration of the bill during a possible […]

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Leaders of the Wisconsin Indian Tribes. From Left: Left is Stewart Bearhart, (St. Croix) Bob Chicks, (Stockbridge-Munsee) Ed Delgago, (Oneida) Craig Corn, (Menominee) Mike Wiggins, (Bad River Ojibwe) Mic Isham, (Great Lake Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission) front is Tom Maulson (Lac du Flambeau) and Harold "Gus" Frank, (Forest County Potawatomi)

Corporate Press Misrepresents State of the Tribes Address as Pro-Mining

By Barbara With, photos by Rebecca Kemble Even as Jon Greendeer, president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, was delivering a wry but laser-sharp message during the Eighth Annual State of the Tribes address in Madison WI on Tuesday, the corporate press was preparing yet another propaganda story about mining. This time they were fabricating the tribes’ […]

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Extreme Mining Advocates Ramp Up Propaganda in Face of Mining Bill Failure

March 11, 2012 by Barbara With On March 6, the Wisconsin State Senate rejected the Joint Finance Committee’s Substitute Amendment to AB426, the Assembly version of a ferrous mining bill authored by Gogebic Taconite, the mining company seeking to open a 22-mile open-pit iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin. After the Senate voted it down, […]

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