January 19, 2013 by Barbara With Just days after releasing their next version of a mining bill, Wisconsin Republicans announced on late Friday afternoon that the only public hearing on the bill will be held on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in a small hearing room at the Capitol in Madison. Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) issued this […]
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The Curious Case of Rainbow Springs Golf Course
Scott Walker has been interested in the fate of the former Rainbow Springs Resort in Waukesha and Walworth counties for a long time. In 2008, as Milwaukee County Executive, he was “outraged” (and said so on talk radio) when the Doyle administration approved using stewardship funds to purchase the 970 acre property, including two […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Legislative Laundry List Part Three
May 16, 2012 by WCMC From 7 pm until 11 pm the Assembly was “debating” SB 306, a bill that makes it more onerous for a woman to get an abortion, and assesses criminal penalties on abortion providers who cannot show documented proof that every abortion they perform was not coerced. See our separate story […]
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, […]
Holperin raises questions regarding wetlands mitigation
The Senate Committee on Natural Resources held an Executive Session on January 19, 2012.
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