Protesters at Ryan's Kenosha office kept out of building Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...the people kept out of Ryan's office are unemployed constituents who want to talk to Ryan about economic issues...
Democracy Convention under way in Madison Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...(Organizer Ben) Manski traces the origins of the "democracy movement" to street protests during the 1999 World Trade Organization's ministerial conference in Seattle. He said the movement was a response to increased corporate power with a desire to bring democracy "closest to the people..."
Governor missed his chance to make nice on SB 5 (opinion) Toledo Blade ...After shoving a hard-right agenda at Ohio residents -- who gave him no mandate to do so -- Gov. John Kasich thinks an embittered public will fall for his belated conversion to compromise and conciliation...
Health care cap for public employers sent to Snyder Detroit News ...The bill includes a cash limit on how much public employers can contribute for health benefits, unless employees pay 20 percent of costs...
More Hoosier Families Depend On Food Banks Indy Channel 6 ...More than 100,000 Indiana children don’t have enough to eat,a problem state officials call “food insecurity,” because their families don’t know where their next meal will come from...
FL Gov Scott asks state prison chief to resign Associated Press ...Buss had come under fire for how the Department of Corrections was handling some of its privatization efforts...
Marco Rubio: Medicare, Social Security ‘Weakened Us As People,’ Made Us Lazy ThinkProgress ...Potential vice president running mate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) dismissed the importance of programs like Medicare and Social Security during a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library this afternoon, arguing that the initiatives “weakened us as people”...
