Police are telling them one thing, the court and the city attorney said another . . .

Occupy.

Summons, Complaint, Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Brief in Support filed, parties served (they deny it), hearing held, no order issued but an agreement reached that people can stay past noon on Monday (til 4:00), structures (hoophouses) can stay til Wedensday at noon no matter what and after a hearing on Monday at 4:00 they may be able to stay even longer!

Party Saturday, clean up this weekend, rally and march Monday and . . . stay tuned.

Look, I understand why an organization would want to get involved in the Democratic primary for Governor. However, recalling Governor Walker is going to be a tricky thing, and the argument needs to be continuously made as to why Governor Walker needs to be recalled. And as a recent poll shows, it’s not going to [...]

Honestly, I can’t believe that this project is all coming together, but its really cool. Thanks to the many, many volunteers for the time and talents and materials!

Recently WPRI hack and Herald – Independent Columnist Sunny Schubert wrote a column congratulating Gannett Newspaper for checking the Verify the Recall database, looking for employees, then punishing them. I then responded and pointed out the similarities between VTR and McCarthyism. Sunny,of course, responded in a very distorted way. Instead of focusing on the content [...]

The Wausau Daily Herald recently penned an Op-Ed stating that under the last legislative session school reform "took a step forward" The reforms establish a new system for teacher evaluations that is sensible and balanced. Student achievement — that is, test scores — now will be considered in teacher evaluations. But they won’t be the [...]

The fine folks over at DailyKos commissioned a poll by Public Policy Polling (which I trust) on the recall in Wisconsin. The results were slightly alarming: Tom Barrett (D): 45 (49) Scott Walker (R-inc): 50 (46) Hari Trivedi (I): 2 Undecided: 3 (3) Kathleen Falk (D): 43 (48) Scott Walker (R-inc): 50 (47) Hari Trivedi [...]

One of our stalwarts here in Dane County gets a Statewide Fair Housing Award. Well deserved! And more!

A kind of late response to John Smalley’s column at the Wisconsin State Journal defending their policy to punish employees who signed the petition to recall Walker. Mr. Smalley says: People accept work-related policies and restrictions all the time. If you want to sell high-end clothing, you can’t wear cut-off jeans to work. If you [...]

“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.” Senator Joe McCarthy 2/9/50. Shame on [...]