CMD Wins Reversal of Restrictive DOJ Public Records Policy
Group obtains more than 3,000 records relating to former Attorney General Schimel's war on the Affordable Care Act.
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That Grifty Thing Stephen Moore Did With Herman Cain -- and the Koch Brothers' Blessing
Stephen Moore awaits his nomination to the Federal Reserve by Trump, who really wanted to get the band back together when he mentioned both Moore and Cain as his picks to the central bank.
Who Bankrolls Tucker Carlson's Hateful Propaganda? Why the Kochs of Course.
While Carlson's advertisers have come under fire, the Kochs should also be held accountable.
Speaker Vos Proposes Merger of Non-Partisan Agencies, Will Open Records Get Lost in the Shuffle?
Mergers of Legislative Council and Legislative Reference Bureau discussed behind closed doors.
Pro-Democracy Groups Denounce Trump's Emergency Power Grab
The Center for Media and Democracy and 24 other groups release statement calling Trump's state of emergency "an attack on our democracy."
Billionaire Eli Broad Takes Public Education Private
Eli Broad is one of several mega-billionaires who have spent hundreds of millions on education think tank research and charter schools, shaping current trends in what they call education reform.
Hundreds of Thousands of Wisconsin Voters Purged from Rolls Since 2016 General Election
The Center for Media and Democracy finds that almost 700,000 Wisconsin voters have been removed from the voter rolls since the end of December 2016.
Reporters Memo: Coke and Pepsi Play Hardball in Attempt to Prevent the Spread of Soda Taxes
Big bucks are being spent by the soda industry on ballot measures to ban local soda tax campaigns in Oregon and Washington state.
Attorney General Schimel Withholds Documents Related to His Legal War Against the Affordable Care Act
CMD files suit to obtain public records from Wisconsin DOJ.
NC Decision to Bar Climate Science from Planning Will Prove Costly
Here's a reprint of a story we ran on North Carolina's shocking climate denial legislation back in 2012. Our hearts go out to all who are suffering from Florence's impact. As we watch the ocean water rush into city streets, in some places as much as two miles, it's worth reminding readers that North Carolina had a chance to reduce shore -- and inland -- damage for years to come. Instead it stuck its head in what little will be left of the sand.
Tar Heel Lawmakers Put Global Warming on Hold! (or, a Rising Tide Lifts No Votes)
By Jonathan Rosenblum