http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/group_rss/BloggingtheStateofWisconsin Thinktank for bloggers. A place to generate ideas and get feedback from those following the issues closely. Uppity Wisconsin will be the credentialed Wisconsin member of the State Blogger Corps at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q/commentary#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:57 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/C24Q Steve Hanson http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/a13eaefb25f70e8de0_ay3mv2jh3.jpg Steve Hanson 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C24Q/ Marquette Professor John McAdams might be too busy silencing speech to comment, but two more studies have determined that Wisconsin leads the nation in yet another dubious category. The studies found that African Americans in Wisconsin are 42 times more likely than whites to receive prison terms for drug convictions. The stat is the highest racial disparity in drug sentencing in the nation. The studies also found that the City of Milwaukee has the second-highest racial disparity for drug arrests among all major U.S. cities. The new national studies largely validate an analysis done by the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission last year. At that time, by “creative” use of numbers, John McAdams was able to crow bar his preconceived notions into the data. It was his confused attempt to belittle what are clear disparities in our criminal justice system. When he finally finishes his crusade against a comedian, McAdams will likely turn his biased analysis back to why these racial disparities are no big deal. While he is in the mood to censor stuff, that would be one presentation that I would like to nominate. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pm http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pm/commentary#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 15:33:57 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/C2Pm Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 3 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2Pm/ Wisconsin, the People's community Re: lobbyist's and special interest's contrary to Wisconsin Interests We people of Wisconsin have the responsibility and the authority to make the rules and decisions of our Wisconsin Community. Our Government is the infrastructure which is to carry out our demands. The Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce represent only business and business interests. The only interest they have is to make money, which is a valid interest but must be combined with the society, environment, welfare, and needs of the people of Wisconsin. To often the WMC and other lobbyist's looks only at immediate gain. To sustain a healthy climate for commerce, the people must prosper and experience quality lives. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/C2yt http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/C2yt/commentary#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:16:17 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/C2yt Bruce Eggum http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/7f1482f578be00094e_bb0mv26gw.jpg Bruce Eggum 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2yt/ Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) is opposing the Senate Democrats’ economic development plan, Wisconsin Invests Now. The plan seeks to invest in Wisconsin’s infrastructure for future growth and quickly provide more well paying jobs. The good news is that the plan would be paid for by closing the corporate tax loophole known as the “Las Vegas Loophole.” What WMC calls “combined reporting,” this shady loophole allows multi-state corporations to escape their fair share of Wisconsin taxes by diverting profits to paper subsidies in states like Nevada, where corporate income taxes aren’t collected. Essentially, all a corporation needs is a shiny mail box in Vegas, and it’s goodbye Wisconsin, hello jackpot.  The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates the cost to Wisconsin taxpayers due to this loophole to be $81,000,000 annualy. James A. Buchen, WMC vice president, today asserted, “We need to be looking for ways to spread growth, hope and opportunity for our families instead of passing proposals that will lead to increased unemployment and despair.” Unfortunately, the real despair lies in WMC’s continued success in shifting the tax burden onto Wisconsin families, while corporations sing “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C29l http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C29l/commentary#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:31:31 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C29l Erik http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/612a574ae6fb2353d9_9zi6mvxxo.jpg Erik 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C29l/ This Wednesday morning, February 27th, The Assembly Committee on Jobs & the Economy will hold a hearing on Wisconsin’s minimum wage. The Committee’s hearing starts at 10:00am in room 400NE, and it will consider Assembly Bill 274, which would raise the minimum wage and index it for inflation. Although federal increases in the minimum wage passed the U.S. Congress last summer, bringing the federal minimum wage up to $7.25 by July 2009, AB274 is important because of its long term implications. Without indexing for inflation, some obvious problems remain constant even after a boost to the minimum wage is given. As explained by Goldman Sachs Vice President Andrew Tilton in a 2006 issue of US Economics Analyst, “the periodic debates about raising the wage consume politicians’ (and economists’) time and energy, and the unpredictability of the law – irregular large hikes followed by gradual erosion through inflation – makes business planning more difficult. If a minimum wage is desired, indexing it to inflation would avoid these problems.” ( WCCF ) http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C2m3 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C2m3/commentary#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:29:09 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/hopejam/C2m3 Erik http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/612a574ae6fb2353d9_9zi6mvxxo.jpg Erik 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/C2m3/ This paper, written in response to the USA Constitution, President and Congress fits every Parliament. Congressional body and All Representative body's of government. The only way for the people to govern is to have an assembly of all the people, all allowed to make initiatives, and all voting on the end result. The decision made of WHAT to do, can than be delegated to a body of people (government) to do. This body would be totally subordinate to the peoples Assembly decisions. http://www.thisnation.com/library/antifederalist/74.html First step is to petition for Initiative and Binding Referendum. Than we can begin to have input into government. The Antifederalist Papers No. 74 The President as Military King "PHILADELPHIENSIS," who was influenced by Thomas Paine (in "Common Sense), wrote the following selection. It is taken from 3 essays which appearing February 6 & 20, and April 9 of 1788 in either The Freeman's Journal or, The North-American Intelligencer. Before martial law is declared to be the supreme law of the land, and your character of free citizens be changed to that of the subjects of a military king-which are necessary consequences of the adoption of the proposed constitution - let me admonish you in the name of sacred liberty, to make a solemn pause. Permit a freeman to address you, and to solicit your attention to a cause wherein yourselves and your posterity are concerned. The sun never shone upon a more important one. It is the cause of freedom of a whole continent of yourselves and of your fellow men. . . . A conspiracy against the freedom of America, both deep and dangerous, has been formed by an infernal junto of demagogues. Our thirteen free commonwealths are to be consolidated into one despotic monarchy. Is not this position obvious? Its evidence is intuitive . . . . Who can deny but the president general will be a king to all intents and purposes, and one of the most dangerous kind too-a king elected to command a standing army. Thus our laws are to be administered by this tyrant; for the whole, or at least the most important part of the executive department is put in his hands. A quorum of 65 representatives, and of 26 senators, with a king at their head, are to possess powers that extend to the lives, the liberties, and property of every citizen of America. This novel system of government, were it possible to establish it, would be a compound of monarchy and aristocracy, the most accursed that ever the world witnessed. About 50 (these being a quorum) of the well born, and a military king, with a standing army devoted to his will, are to have an uncontrolled power. . . . There is not a tincture of democracy in the proposed constitution, except the nominal elections of the president general and the illustrious Congress be supposed to have some color of that nature. But this is a mere deception, invented to gull the people into its adoption. Its framers were well aware that some appearance of election ought to be observed, especially in regard to the first Congress; for without such an appearance there was not the smallest probability of their having it organized and set in operation. But let the wheels of this government be once cleverly set in motion, and I'll answer for it, that the people shall not be much troubled with future elections, especially in choosing their king-the standing army will do that business for them. The thoughts of a military officer possessing such powers, as the proposed constitution vests in the president general, are sufficient to excite in the mind of a freeman the most alarming apprehensions; and ought to rouse him to oppose it at all events. Every freeman of America ought to hold up this idea to himself: that he has no superior but God and the laws. But this tyrant will be so much his superior, that he can at any time he thinks proper, order him out in the militia to exercise, and to march when and where he pleases. His officers can wantonly inflict the most disgraceful punishment on a peaceable citizen, under pretense of disobedience, or the smallest neglect of militia duty. . . . The President-general, who is to be our king after this government is established, is vested with powers exceeding those of the most despotic monarch we know of in modern times. What a handsome return have these men [the authors of the Constitution made to the people of America for their confidence! Through the misconduct of these bold conspirators we have lost the most glorious opportunity that any country ever had to establish a free system of government. America under one purely democratical, would be rendered the happiest and most powerful nation in the universe. But under the proposed one composed of an elective king and a standing army, officered by his sycophants, the starvelings of the Cincinnati, and an aristocratical Congress of the well-born-an iota of happiness, freedom, or national strength cannot exist. What a pitiful figure will these ungrateful men make in history; who, for the hopes of obtaining some lucrative employment, or of receiving a little more homage from the rest of their fellow creatures, framed a system of oppression that must involve in its consequences the misery of their own offspring.... Some feeble attempts have been made by the advocates of this system of tyranny, to answer the objections made to the smallness of the number of representatives and senators, and the improper powers delegated to them. But, as far as I recollect, no one has been found bold enough to stand forth in defense of that dangerous and uncontrolled officer, the President-General, or more properly, our new King. A few pieces under the signature of An American Citizen' were published immediately after the Constitution broke the shell, and the hydra made its way from the dark conclave into the open light. In the first number the writer, in touching on the President, endeavored to conceal his immense powers, by representing the King of Great Britain as possessed of many hereditary prerogatives, rights and powers that he was not possessed of; that is, he shows what he is not, but neglects to show what he really is. But so flimsy a palliative could scarce escape the censure of the most ignorant advocate for such an officer; and since [then] we hear of no further attempts to prove the necessity of a King being set over the freemen of America. The writer of these essays has clearly proven, that the President is a King to all intents and purposes, and at the same time one of the most dangerous kind too - an elective King, the commander in chief of a standing army, etc. And to those add, that he has a negative power over the proceedings of both branches of the legislature. And to complete his uncontrolled sway, he is neither restrained nor assisted by a privy council, which is a novelty in government. I challenge the politicians of the whole continent to find in any period of history a monarch more absolute. . . . PHILADELPHIENSIS About this Site • Contact Us • Permissions © 2004-2005 ThisNation.com All Rights Reserved. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/Bpj http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/Bpj/commentary#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:40:43 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/bruceeggum/Bpj Bruce Eggum http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/7f1482f578be00094e_bb0mv26gw.jpg Bruce Eggum 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bpj/ I will be the Wisconsin moderator for the BlogsUnited Upper Midwest caucus at YearlyKOS. This is currently scheduled for 2-4:30 PM on August 2, and will be a caucus for Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North/South Dakota. I'd like to invite anyone who may be attending YearlyKOS to attend this caucus. Details are available at http://www.uppitywis.org/yearlykos-regional-caucus http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/BhK http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/BhK/commentary#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:37:48 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/BhK Steve Hanson http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/a13eaefb25f70e8de0_ay3mv2jh3.jpg Steve Hanson 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/BhK/ Hi - I'm Steve Hanson from Uppity Wisconsin . I'm writing this post because I've agreed to help recruit Wisconsinites to participate in the YearlyKOS convention in Chicago http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/Bhb http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/Bhb/commentary#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:32:25 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/uppitywis/Bhb Steve Hanson http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/a13eaefb25f70e8de0_ay3mv2jh3.jpg Steve Hanson 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bhb/ I just wanted to take a moment to explain how to sign up for this group, for "My Own Page" on our site and how to use the available tools successfully. To sign up for this group you can simply click "Join Group". If you have already registered for our site you must first log in. If you have never registered for our site then please enter the requested info in the sign up section. Once you have signed up you will get an email verifying your information. After verification you can simply sign into "My Own Page." On the "My Own Page" left column you first have your profile which you can edit as you wish. Do this by clicking the arrow,choosing an option on the drop down menu, and clicking "go." Below that is your own blog. Simply click the arrow on the drop down menu and choose to manage, view, write, or edit a blog posting. If you select "write" click "go" and let the world know what is on your mind! After writing scroll down and choose the catagory that the post belongs in and what group pages that you would like to display your blog posting on. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Bhq http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Bhq/commentary#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:54:39 EST http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Bhq Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 3 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/Bhq/ Many of you may already know that state Senator Tom Reynolds has had his attorney sent a threatening letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Rising blog . I think his threats are pretty much baseless, but it does open a much larger discussion on blogging and do we run any legal riskswhen we exercise our free speech rights? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Vjh http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Vjh/commentary#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:47:50 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/Vjh Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/Vjh/ The recent, depressing, regretable--and remarkably anomalous--rash of school violence has led to what has to be the most hare-brained and addle-pated idea since Uncle Herb decided to let Homer design a car . (I know that was on a TV show. But I can't even think of an example in real life that even comes close.) That idea--sprung like a sadly defective Athena from the shiny forehead of Representative Frank Lasee (R-Bellevue) (the town, not the mental hospital)--is to arm teachers and other school personnel. I wonder if Lasee asked a single teacher about the idea, because just about every teacher I know would have told Lasee where he could stick his guns (hint: not the holster). http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/folkbum/VMG http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/folkbum/VMG/commentary#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:06:36 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/folkbum/VMG Jay Bullock Jay Bullock 1 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/VMG/ I hate to sound like a broken record but it was just a few weeks ago that I heard one of the more popular right wing bloggers on WPR. Now this morning on the same show, I see that they had a different right wing blogger on WPR debating the death penalty. Has anyone out there on the left side ever been invited to be a guest on WPR? I have never heard any of you on WPR, what gives? How ironic that the same right wingers that will talk about how WPR is so liberal, appear to be the only bloggers that are asked to be on their shows. Is there anything that can be done about this? Any thoughts? http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMp http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMp/commentary#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:37:28 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMp Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/VMp/ Just wanted to share this article with everyone from the Boston Globe earlier in the week. It basically talks about bloggers past writing being used (sometimes against them) in various court proceedings. Very interesting read in this cutting edge area of law and blogging. Have there been any Wisconsin cases involving blogs or bloggers? Link http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMh http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMh/commentary#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:00:43 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMh Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/VMh/ I have raised this question before with other Wisconsin bloggers, but I felt like this would be a good first question to ask in this group. I know that some of us have been mentioned in various papers and such but it seems like it is far a few between. http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMk http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMk/commentary#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:47:22 EDT http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/post/coryliebmann/VMk Cory @ One Wisconsin Now http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/profile_picture/9ad40ac09a26a36f86_dlqmv2gn9.jpg Cory @ One Wisconsin Now 0 http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/page/community/comment_rss/VMk/