Aredee

Madison’s proposed Preparatory Academy is making some new changes to their plans for the all-girls and all-boys charter schools Now it comes out that the prep school backers want to use non-union teachers & staff. In journalism school, this is called “burying the lede.” The real story here is union busting as an excuse...
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The other day I had a packet of documents that needed to be shipped to the east coast for arrival the next day. I started shopping around. Initially it made sense to ship it Fed Ex, since I was planning to make copies of my documents at the Fed Ex Office store (formerly Kinko’s),...
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I was researching the expression, “Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor” as it is used to describe the American economy, or, if you prefer, “privatizing profits and socializing losses.” I wouldn’t cite a Wikipedia article for an academic paper, but in this case, it seems convenient. To my surprise, the I discovered...
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Wall Street really doesn’t affect the average American anymore. Today it’s down dramatically, at other times it goes up. Meanwhile, the average income of most Americans is shrinking, and the gap between the richest and the poorest continues to widen. Instead of the Dow Industrial Average or the S&P 500, we need a “Main...
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By Aredee It’s lamentable that we didn’t take back the state Senate, but it wasn’t a total loss; in fact it was quite an historic victory. In the entire history of the state, Wisconsin has had only four legislative recall elections–and only two of those were successful–until yesterday. We replaced two reactionaries–who were backed...
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