A Bright Spot in an Otherwise Dreary Wisconsin Spring
The Fraud of Wisconsin’s Political System, Youth Political Activism, and a Possible Future for the State’s Concept of the "Public"
The furor over Wisconsin’s budgetary “crisis” continues to escalate, demonstrated by the fact that as I write this, the state’s law enforcement is searching for Democratic legislators who have crossed state lines and gone into hiding as a way to stop passage of the bill or at least force serious negotiations. The budget bill, now infamous across the country, would force state employees to pay into their pensions at a higher percentage, would raise the price of health care for said employees, and also effectively end collective bargaining rights for state-level public employee unions. Of course, much of this debate is not about budgetary crisis, but about how to move towards