Scott Walker’s bogus `mission accomplished’ moment Washington Post ...There are 424 school districts in Wisconsin, and as the AP recently noted, Walker’s policies mean draconian budget cuts to 410 of them, with labor officials and school districts predicting increased class sizes and layoffs...
Silence leads to more of the same (Opinion) Newark Advocate ...Gov. John Kasich and ...Republican lawmakers...insist they are doing what voters hired them this past November to do ...Evidently, this means Ohio taxpayers want their state government to transfer wealth from middle-class, working-class and poor families to the state's richest individuals and businesses...
Gillman brings 'right-to-work' to board Traverse City Record-Eagle ...Commissioner Jason Gillman will ask the board to adopt a resolution to encourage Gov. Rick Snyder, state Rep. Wayne Schmidt and state Sen. Howard Walker to support legislation to make Michigan a so-called "right-to-work" state...
State legislators have heavy lift with reapportionment (Opinion) Sun-Sentinel ...Sixty-three percent of the voters approved last fall's ballot initiative that saw the passage of Amendments 5 and 6 (which) ... make it more difficult for the Legislature to draw boundaries favoring incumbent politicians or party interests over the voters...
Teachers sue over Indiana school voucher law Associated Press ...Indiana’s largest teachers union is attempting to block a new statewide vouchers program that would allow parents to use tax dollars to send their children to private schools...
Little progress emerges from first post-shutdown talks Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...Leaders at the Capitol emerged Tuesday from the latest negotiations since the shutdown began with little progress to announce...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Today's Teamster News 04.28.11
Indiana OKs broadest private school voucher system in US as Daniels mulls White House bid Associated Press ...It would allow even middle-class families to use taxpayer money to send their children to private schools...
Little evidence found to support claims of voter fraud Florida Independent ...Republican legislators pushing new restrictions on groups that register voters and on voters trying to change their addresses at the polls have said the changes are intended to bring integrity to the voting process...
A State Manager Takes Over and Cuts What a City Can’t New York Times ...Only four entities in Michigan, including Detroit’s public school system, currently are deemed distressed enough to require oversight by emergency managers. But some economists predict those ranks will grow...
Big Jump In Disapproval For Pennsylvania Governor Quinnipiac University ...Pennsylvania voters say 50 - 39 percent that Gov. Corbett's budget-cutting proposals are unfair to people like them...
Angry voters crowd GOP town meetings CBS ...constituents from Twin Lakes to Kenosha are being turned away as capacity crowds inside come to praise or condemn the plan Ryan likes to call the "path to prosperity..."
Wisconsin pension system is nation's most solvent, study finds Green Bay Press Gazette ...At a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday sponsored by the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank, the consensus among panelists was pensions are not to blame for states' fiscal woes...
Advocates: Consumers 'betrayed' by high court ruling on class-action suits MSNBC ...Fine print in everyday consumer contracts can include provisions that require Americans to surrender their rights to file class-action lawsuits, the U.S Supreme Court ruled Wednesday...
Little evidence found to support claims of voter fraud Florida Independent ...Republican legislators pushing new restrictions on groups that register voters and on voters trying to change their addresses at the polls have said the changes are intended to bring integrity to the voting process...
A State Manager Takes Over and Cuts What a City Can’t New York Times ...Only four entities in Michigan, including Detroit’s public school system, currently are deemed distressed enough to require oversight by emergency managers. But some economists predict those ranks will grow...
Big Jump In Disapproval For Pennsylvania Governor Quinnipiac University ...Pennsylvania voters say 50 - 39 percent that Gov. Corbett's budget-cutting proposals are unfair to people like them...
Angry voters crowd GOP town meetings CBS ...constituents from Twin Lakes to Kenosha are being turned away as capacity crowds inside come to praise or condemn the plan Ryan likes to call the "path to prosperity..."
Wisconsin pension system is nation's most solvent, study finds Green Bay Press Gazette ...At a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday sponsored by the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank, the consensus among panelists was pensions are not to blame for states' fiscal woes...
Advocates: Consumers 'betrayed' by high court ruling on class-action suits MSNBC ...Fine print in everyday consumer contracts can include provisions that require Americans to surrender their rights to file class-action lawsuits, the U.S Supreme Court ruled Wednesday...
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