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firedoglake.com - (Photo by Jessica Kramer, via Flickr.) You’ve been reading a lot lately about the extreme, slash-and-burn partisan agendas of new Republican governors across the country — who are engaging in a no-...

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jsonline.com - Updated: March 18, 2011 11:30 a.m. | Madison — Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, halting Gov. Scott Walker's law that would sharply curtail collect...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Detroit Proposes Last-Minute Schools Solution: Charter Conversion | Change.org NewsDetroit Proposes Last-Minute Schools Solution: Charter ConversionAfter hearing that class sizes in Detroit Public ...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - A Crain's Cleveland Business writer put his name on a press release (he called it "news") announcing that union-busting billionaires will run this vicious anti-worker ad beginning today in Ohio. On...

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news.firedoglake.com - According to news reporter Jessica Arp, a Dane County judge in Wisconsin has halted the implementation of Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union law. Judge Maryann Sumi said that the prosecution was likely...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Biden, Solis Tell Workers: ‘We Need Collective Bargaining’ | AFL-CIO NOW BLOGBiden, Solis Tell Workers: ‘We Need Collective Bargaining’ by James Parks, Mar 17, 2011872Share Vice President Biden an...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teamster Nation: Woo-hoo! Judge blocks WI collective bargaining billWoo-hoo! Judge blocks WI collective bargaining billby Teamster PowerYES!!!!! The twittersphere tells us a judge ordered Wisconsin...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - It looks like Scott Walker's past is coming back to haunt him. Irony is a sad consequence of conservativism. Here's Walker's original ad describing his rise through recall... Here's the reworking, ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Wis. governor releases e-mails about union rights - Politics - More politics - msnbc.comWis. governor releases e-mails about union rightsMessages offer glimpse of extent of public support for Walke...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will get a big, nasty surprise when he visits City Brewery in LaCrosse today. Teamsters are organizing a flash protest that could draw hundreds of angry Wisco...

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colusa-sun-herald.com - The Wisconsin Legislature has abolished nearly all collective bargaining rights for public employees and required them to pay a portion of their retirement benefits. We hope this starts a badly nee...

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620wtmj.com - Story Created: Mar 18, 2011 Story Updated: Mar 18, 2011 This is as clear an assault on an independent judiciary as you can imagine. Either candidate Joanne Kloppenburg has implicitly or explicitly ...

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canadianbusiness.com - EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his top advisers were expecting calls for the governor's ouster and angry protests at the Capitol once he laid out his budget proposal in mi...

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salon.com - NASA Cyclone Yasi's landfall in Australia in early February punctuated a year of extraordinary weather events. House Republicans will release a slate of proposed budget cuts on Thursday. High on th...

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nbc15.com - Posted Friday, March 18, 2011--- 6:00 p.m. For close to two weeks a few protesters have continued to come to the Capitol and have their voices heard. Friday they really had something to sing about....

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heraldnews.com - I write on behalf of the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council Board. Our council members include both public and private unions. Over the last month, the labor movement has come under a...

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theuptake.org - This afternoon, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton will join Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for a discussion on the Stillwater Bridge with local elected officials, community leaders, and officials from...

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msnbc.msn.com - Pat Buchanan, Bob Herbert, Steve Rattner, Tina Brown, David Gregory, Richard Trumka, Bradley Cooper, Jon Meacham and Rob Bell

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uppitywis.org - Wisconsin Attorney Gerneral J.B. Van Hollen has announced that the state will appeal this morning's decision to issue a temporary restraining order that will keep the budget repair bill from being ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Momma Politico: On Being Powerless: Guest Post from @jillsmoOn Being Powerless: Guest Post from @jillsmoby mommapolitico@gmail.com (mommapolitico)WI Workers protesting union-stripping and billionai...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com -  Looks like an energetic anti-Koch whore Walker crowd showed up on short notice in LaCrosse this afternoon. They weren't even sure when he'd be there. Walker was to tour the City Brewery, and we ...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - I’m angry, as a parent, and lifelong resident of Wisconsin. I have stayed in Wisconsin for one reason; it’s not like any other state. That's about to end. Dickensian economics is the rage now, and ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Friend of FitzWalkerStan: Supreme Court Justice David Prosser | blue cheddar.A Friend of FitzWalkerStan: Supreme Court Justice David ProsserBY BLUECHEDDAR10AM Almost Without FailJust a note that ...

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act.aflcio.org - Last year, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that requires the disclosure of CEO-to-worker pay, among other critically important reforms....

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solidaritywisconsin.com - Read between the lines here. This was in front of a Republican audience, and he’s playing on their fears of his opposition, Assistant US Attorney JoAnn Kloppenburg. He’s saying to vote for him beca...

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solidaritywisconsin.com - David Prosser is a partisan. Started out as an aide to a Republican congressman. Went on to serve as a Republican district attorney. Then as a longtime Republican assemblyman. Eventually became spe...

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defendwisconsin.org - Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public em...

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teamsternation.blogspot.com - The news is spreading like wildfire and people are thrilled (for now). Tweets @legaleagle:Strangers high-fiving in courthouse elevator. #wiunion #thankyoujudgesumi”@techpr tweets:The #wiunion happy...

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news.firedoglake.com - The Attorney General of Wisconsin, JB Van Hollen, will appeal today’s ruling in Dane County Court of a temporary restraining order against implementation of the anti-union law that strips public em...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - Remember when Obama was roundly criticized for putting in place unelected Czars in positions of power? Remember when Walker was roundly criticized for putting in place unelected Czars in positions ...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - From Channel3000: A Dane County judge has issued a restraining order on Friday to block publication of the state's collective bargaining law. Judge Maryann Sumi issued the order to temporarily bl...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Dear Wisconsin, Nation, friends, and enemies: you deserve some comic relief. Bill O’Reilly: show us your finger-walking. Posted on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am in Uncategori...

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dekerivers.wordpress.com - One of the must reads this morning is written by Bill Lueders in Isthmus. The retirement of Beth Hastings from the Department of Administration, along with her reflections are a damning indictment...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Ohio Governor Gets 3,000 Boos | Labor NotesOhio Governor Gets 3,000 BoosHoward Ryan| March 18, 2011Firefighter Dan Rihm uses a bullhorn to rally the thousands of activists protesting Ohio Senate B...

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washingtonpost.com - A Wisconsin judge has temporarily blocked a controversial law from going into effect that would severely restrict collective-bargaining rights for most public employees in the state. Graphic Graphi...

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uppitywis.org - From the Onalaska-Holmen Tribune:"The tools you gave us are not the tools we want," Kamprud said."You gave us muscle. But we don't want to use it. You're takingaway my income, their choices, their ...

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democurmudgeon.blogspot.com - There is nothing more telling than Walker’s stated priorities:CapTimes: Today's announcement , freezing enrollment in the state's BadgerCare Basic plan, is the first specific and significant action...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Michigan's Teachers Mulling A Strike?Michigan's Teachers Mulling A Strike?The Michigan Education Association, in response to proposed cuts from the Snyder administration, is asking members for the ...

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obrag.org - Editor: In the shadow of over a 100,000 demonstrators massing last Saturday in Madison against Gov. Walker and the GOP-led State Senate efforts to void public worker rights, we have some more good ...

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bluecheddar.wordpress.com - by bluecheddar Heh, heh. Walker got into his gig as Milwaukee County Executive in April of 2002 on a recall election. So heck, no reason why he shouldn’t have thrown some heartwarming testimony abo...

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