Thanks to all for reading Faithful Progressive! I would especially like to thank all of our regular commentators, including Dr. Arden, SB George, Tiny Thinker, Mike, etc, etc and Vince and all of our...
If conservative pollsters with pro-GOP samples keep getting numbers like these, then you know the real number is even more decisive. Wisconsin will overcome Walkerism just as we overcame McCarthyism-...
Hendrik Hertzberg at the New Yorker, Union Blues:...Organized labor’s catastrophic decline has paralleled—and, to a disputed but indisputably substantial degree, precipitated—an equally dramatic rise...
Farewell Post, Part One is here.Obviously, I think there is great wisdom in the Biblical tradition or I would not have written about these issues for so long. But my argument has been that even if on...
Rasmussen Wisconsin poll: 57 percent disapprove of Guv & among households with children in the public school system, only 32% approve of Walker’s performance. Sixty-seven percent (67%) disap...
This is the authoritarian corporate Republican, Koch Brothers phone-call accepting future.Rasmussen Wisconsin poll: 57 percent disapprove of Guv & among households with children in the public sch...
All good things must come to an end, and that includes the experience of writing this blog for the past few years. Like many others, I started writing this blog during the dark time after President B...
Are you listening Wisconsin Republicans in the Senate? A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Wisconsin voters shows that just 39% favor weakening collective bargaining rights and 52% are o...
A conservative blog called Iowa Hawk disputes that Wisconsin public schools, served by mostly union teachers, have better outcomes better than those in non-union Texas. IH concludes, "maybe...
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That 165 million dollar refinancing that Gov. Scott Walker is using as justification for state employee lay-offs actually costs Wisconsin taxpayers somewhere between 30 and 42 million dollars more--b...
Milwaukee City Attorney Grant Langley has no doubt that the plan is unconstitutional as it relates to Milwaukee home-rule authority over pensions, and that it conflicts with prior settlements and fun...
As we noted here, Wisconsin has excellent public schools. Scott Walker wants to change all that--and wants to shift taxpayers money toward unproven private schools.JS Online: Budget cuts would t...
MADISON-Following is the statement of Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate on Scott Walkers proposed budget."In his 20-minute phone call with whom he thought was a right-wing oil tycoon ...
As we argued here, that Scott Walker was elected because of low turnout by UW system students. Walker has rewarded them by essentially declaring war on UW system students.This plan will raise tuition...
Wisconsin has a long history of progressive people of faith taking on injustice. The abolitionists who founded the anti-slavery Republican Party included Congregationalist (UCC) ministers. The Progre...
An overwhelming majority of Americans reject Gov. Scott Walkers hostile view of public worker rights. He has also alienated a majority of Wisconsin voters. NY Times: Majority in Poll Back Emplo...
Cuts to local governments and schools are just that: they will reduce the quality of local schools and the delivery of local services. There is no twisted logic that changes that fundamental reality....
Wisconsin State Senator Lena C. Taylor just gave an amazing and very troubling interview on the Ed Schultz radio show. In it, she claimed that Milwaukee police went to her church and tried to g...
As Dana Milbank observed in Sundays Washington Post, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sees the world in black-and-white ideological terms that leave little room for compromise. With Walker, youre either a...
This place has been bopping lately, and we especially welcome many regular new readers following Wisconsin politics. I had really planned to give the blog up--today, as a matter of fact. Ive been doi...
The NY Times broke the story that Fox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee to Lie, Records ShowWill Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News be indicted for conspiring to lie to fede...
Will Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walke ever be forced to really answer the questions about his taped confession that hed "thought about" bringing in anti-union goons to cause a ruckus in the peacefu...
It was a brisk 15 degrees F (minus 9 C) Saturday, and yet the biggest rally yet in the ongoing Madison, Wisconsin battle for labor rights.This group of prison guards stayed until sunset. Images ...
After thinking about it and debating with a long-time conservative friend, Ive been trying to reduce the Wisconsin union debate to its philosophical and/or theological essence.People who support unio...
And Ill tell it and think it and speak it and breathe itAnd reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it!
The extreme plans and cutbacks of most Republican (and some Democratic) Governors is starting to stall the Obama economic recovery. Fortunately, the stimulus plan has worked--manufacturing is flouris...
This is an important point, as I understand it, the current system was bargained for with Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson and Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle--in lieu of other pay raises. Wisconsin state wo...
Madison.com: Madison police chief asks Walker to explain troubling statements Madison Police Chief Noble Wray Thursday asked Gov. Scott Walker to explain his "troubling" and "...
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