The case for high-speed rail.

The pinch at the pump is back.  Just today, I had to pay $3.29/gallon for gas in Columbia.  There have been many reasons cited for this, with the main theory centering around the people’s revolutions in the Middle East, and their effect on the distribution of oil from the region.  For what it is worth, [...]

So the Republican war on the working class has come to this. How shameful.

This is what it has come to.  The Wisconsin State Senate passing a law without a working quorum to pass budgetary bills.  But the public was sold a bill of goods about the legislation being a “budget repair” bill.  How did this happen?  The Wisconsin State Constitution is fairly clear about this: you must have [...]

This message has been brought to you Joe the Plumber (aka Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part VIII).

Our Madison correspondent, Cory, secured tickets to the Americans for Prosperity rally there yesterday.  So, being the good journalist that he is (we served together at Minneapolis Community and Technical College’s City College News in 2002-2003), he took his camera.  And lucky for us, he caught a gold mine (apparently Rachel Maddow thought so as [...]

Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part VII.

There are just so many unique scenes unfolding in Madison; we should all be so lucky as to witness something that most of us have only read about in our grade-school history books.  I, for one, am happy to bring the images of this labor uprising to the readers of this blog.  And we owe [...]

Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part VI.

I have some video and pictures for y’all today, courtesy of our Madison correspondent, Cory.  So without further adieu:

The continued assault on Wisconsin’s working families, considered.

There are very few elected officials that I actually dislike.  Even though I may argue against the Republican agenda on this blog, I am sure that most of them are decent people who simply have a policy difference from my own.  At the end of the day, most elected officials care about their constituencies, their [...]

Gov. Walker, you have a phone call on Line 1.

As the Wisconsin labor crisis continues into its second week, Gov. Scott Walker seems as recalcitrant as ever.  He continues to say that he will not compromise on the “budget repair” bill, which would eliminate collective bargaining rights for everything except wages for 175,000 public employees, and that the continued impasse on the bill could [...]

Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part V.

I do not have pictures for this installment.  However, Tom Morello was in Madison for a concert in support of the protesters, so that video is provided below.

Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part IV.

These pictures are from Sunday’s rallies at the Wisconsin State Capitol (credit to Cory):

Scenes from the Wisconsin labor protests, Part III.

Cory said that there were 100,000 total and about 60,000 gathered at once in any point of the day.  This is a great thing for working people across America, and Wisconsin is leading the way.  Without further adieu: