Firm lauded by Walker profits off needy, critics charge Madison.com ...The Fort Atkinson temporary services company praised by Gov. Scott Walker this week has seen its profits swell to $2.8 million annually, while paying its disabled workers less than minimum wage...
SB 5 referendum will be Issue 2 on November ballot Columbus Disptach ...Issue 1 is a proposal from the legislature to change the state constitution so that judges don't face mandatory retirement until age 70, up from the current 65...
Reports: Tension growing between Gov. Snyder, Republican legislators Mlive.com ...state Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, pressed Snyder during the meeting about advancing "Right to Life" issues. Snyder ... said his focus will remain on other issues, such as the fiscally conservative budget-cutting agenda ...
Policy research group: Florida made ‘unnecessarily harmful’ budget cuts Florida Independent ...the services hardest hit by state cuts have been education and health care...
Gov. Chris Christie released from hospital, says he is a little tired but otherwise fine NJ.com ...Gov. Chris Christie was released from a Somerville hospital early this evening after spending the day there because of an asthma attack...
How Shadowy Right-Wing Front Groups Engineered Our National Embrace Of Debt Reduction Over Job Creation ThinkProgress ...Since the end of the Bush presidency, shadowy right-wing groups, many of them formed for this very purpose, have primed the public with a sophisticated public relations campaign to shift the national discourse to a focus on debt reduction...