Koch PR Games: College Football Brought to You by Koch Industries
College football season has begun, and this year it is being brought to you by Koch Industries.
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5 Ideas that Really Matter But FOX Won't Address Them in the Presidential Debate
Pundits have wasted hours guessing which ten of the 17 White House contestants FOX would choose for its version of Donald Trump's Miss USA....
Scott Walker Whistles Dixie
It is a sad spectacle to see WI Governor Scott Walker taking money from the president of the "Council of Conservative Citizens,” a white supremacist group that grew out of the White Citizens Councils and is credited with radicalizing the man who massacred nine parishioners in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.
Charter Industry Strong-Arms Public Officials; $3.3 Billion Spent (Part 5)
The U.S. Department of Education has pledged to tighten controls of its quarter-billion-dollar-a-year charter schools program—a program repeatedly criticized by the Office of the Inspector General.
Emails Show Walker Chief of Staff Oversaw Changes to Wisconsin Idea
New emails reveal that the instructions to scrap the Wisconsin Idea from the UW Mission Statement originated with Walker’s Chief of Staff Eric Schutt, who was copied at least twice on the final language.
Vouchers on the Move: Return to School Segregation?
Presidential hopefuls have been outbidding themselves in touting school vouchers but racial integration was never part of the original design, which was cooked up out of hostility for public schools and first used evade desegregation.
National Right to Work Committee Attacks WI Workers with Hypocritical Zeal
Founded in 1955 to combat the "evils of compulsory unionism," the National Right to Work Committee has waged a war on workers ever since.
Koch Front Group Targeting Latinos Set to Expand to Wisconsin
Wisconsin is home to nearly 335,000 Latinos, and 40 percent of these self-identify as Democrats. The LIBRE Initiative is poised to bring Latinos back into the GOP fold just in time for the 2016 election cycle.
Walker Moves Pay Cut for WI Chief Justice in the Budget Bill
The Walker budget slips in an edit to the section on the judicial commission to strike a statutory provision stating that "the salary established for the chief justice of the supreme court shall be different than the salaries established for the associate justices of the Supreme Court."
Walker Tripped Up by Truth
This week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker got tripped up by the truth.
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