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Walker Budget Gives School District Surplus, Reduces Class Sizes, Hires More Teachers

Posted by Matthew Knee on June 30, 2011 6 Comments

Althouse: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus…. The...

Commencement Season

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on May 24, 2011 5 Comments

Kathleen Commencement season is upon us, which means that insipid celebrities of all flavors will bestow their opinions upon a new generation of bright-eyed college grads. Notable was former President Bill Clinton. His prose at the NYU graduation read like so: “today’s business schools are...

NY Times Editors Endorse Mob Rule

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 18, 2011 20 Comments

Now this represents real change. After two years of using the pages of The NY Times to lash out at peaceful health care protesters and Tea Parties, the Board of Editors of The New York Times has decided that actual violence by unions in Wisconsin...

NAACP’s Double-Standard On Display at One Nation Rally

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist “elements” in the movement. As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

The Cruel Ones

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2010 7 Comments

A California appeals court has upheld an Order by Gov. Arnold Schwarzennager temporarily cutting state employees back to the federal minimum wage since the California legislature has not passed a budget and is facing a $19 billion annual deficit. As reported in The San Francisco...

https://twitter.com/CaltransD4/status/1722765175789699438

California’s Budget Deficit Hits Record $68 Billion as Tax Revenue Falls

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 09, 2023 28 Comments

Blame "Bidenomics." California's economic downturn has been worse than expected.

New Salary Rules Jeopardize California’s Wildfire-Preventing Goat Herding Industry

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 06, 2023 29 Comments

Meanwhile, Allstate is withdrawing from California because of wildfires.

“A full-blown Color Revolution-style attack on the US Supreme Court as an institution is now in its early stages”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2023 63 Comments

A color revolution edging into a hot war on the conservative Justices.

Strike at Rutgers University Ends After a Deal is Reached

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 16, 2023 1 Comment

"The new deal will increase salaries for full-time faculty and New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund counselors by at least 14% by the summer of 2025"

Court: Barrington (RI) School Committee Liable For Attorney’s Fees Of Teachers Fired Over Covid Vax Mandate

Posted by Jane Coleman on October 09, 2022 10 Comments

A follow up to our prior coverage of the three Christian teachers fired after the district refused even to consider their requests for religious exemption. Court imposed a $500 fine for an open meetings violation and more significantly, the teacher's attorney's fees that could be $30,000.

UVA Progressive Students Protest New Board Member Appointed by Glenn Youngkin

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 13, 2022 12 Comments

"As the University continues to grapple with its history of slavery, racism, and eugenics, Mr. Ellis’ appointment is not only regressive, but also directly insulting"

Biden’s $5.8 Trillion Budget Asks Congress for $32 Billion to Fund the Police

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 28, 2022 47 Comments

The budget also asks for a 20% tax on billionaires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTGppsfyzt4

Protest At Oberlin College Over Professor Accused Of Helping Cover Up Iranian Mass Executions While U.N. Ambassador

Posted by Melissa Landa on November 09, 2021 13 Comments

Oberlin College Professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati's history still haunts him.

Biden’s $1.8 Trillion American Families Plan Includes Free Community College, Massive Tax Hikes

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 29, 2021 30 Comments

They're going to raise the tax rate on those evil millionaires making..$523,600 a year.

Stacey Abrams Criticizes GA Gov. Brian Kemp’s Plan to Reopen State as ‘Dangerously Incompetent’

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 21, 2020 48 Comments

"Weakened healthcare w/closed rural hospitals, no Medicaid expansion & a doctor shortage. Reopen? Dangerously incompetent."

Former Staffers Sue Bloomberg After Layoffs Despite Promise of Pay Through November

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 23, 2020 25 Comments

“The plaintiffs and the other putative class members did not know that the defendant’s representations were false, and would not have accepted their positions with Mike Bloomberg 2020 in the absence of the campaign’s false representations."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cszJjVaQYho

Bernie Sanders Campaign Accused of Retaliating Against Staffers for Union Activities

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 26, 2019 6 Comments

“The campaign leadership, from Senator Sanders on down, respects the rights of all of its employees to speak collectively and bargain about their terms and conditions of employment"

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