YOU TALK WE LISTEN
Northland Grassroots Public Listening Session. Each topic area will have one lead out presenter for 10-12 minutes. Come join us in the LCO Convention Center.
UPDATE ON PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY IN WISCONSIN
By Nancy Stencil 86th Assembly Candidate / www.stencilforassembly.com
Wisconsin Welcomes You” is the visitor friendly message on the highway signs along our borders. Five years ago an additional notice was suspended underneath: “Open for Business.” Our state (unlike before, presumably) had now instantly transformed into a place for limitless corporate opportunity-and profit! A plethora of jobs awaited just beyond the horizon, and an era of stagnation, never quite documented but loudly proclaimed, was finally over.
One business that Wisconsin has ...
MESABI IRON RANGE STRIKE
By John Spiegelhoff
Northern Minnesota-circa 1905. Immigrant miners primarily from Finland, Italy and from Eastern Europe work twelve hours a day and seven days a week mining iron ore on the Mesabi Range for the Oliver Mining Company. The immigrants mostly do not speak English. The Oliver Mining Company pays them pennies for their work. The working conditions are dangerous: explosions, dust inhalation and falling rock. Debilitating injuries and death are common. There is no workers compensation. If you are injured and cannot work, you and your family starve. To add ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART V: THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.” - - Abraham Lincoln
"We have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is because it says “Federal Reserve.” It belongs to private banks, private corporations. ...
BLUE JEAN NATION REVIVAL
BLUE JEAN NATION REVIVAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20
NEENAH, WISCONSIN
Blue Jean Nation has no interest in holding just another boring political convention with endless speeches. What we’ve got in mind is more like a New England-style town hall meeting – only with a twist inspired by digital-age social media. A “town hall tweeting” you might say, complete with a hearing where everyone who attends is invited to give oral “tweestimony” on how to fix the broken political system in 140 characters or less, with the best statements tweeted out live on Blue Jean ...
CLEAN GREEN ACTION LISTS 2016 PROJECTS
Clean Green Action (CGA) is beginning its ninth year of working on projects that focus on sustainability and reducing impact on the environment. In 2015 we continued to build on successes in previous years, and in 2016 we will maintain some past projects while adding some new projects.
Continuing projects include the following:
Choose to Reuse – This event, which is organized by different area townships (e.g. Rome, Grant, Grand Rapids, Saratoga, Seneca), allows people to drop off useful items for others to have for free. Check with your local township for dates....
WHAT HAPPENS IN AN IOWA CAUCUS?
(Katy Harle lives in Bettendorf, Iowa)
What a night! It was exciting to see such a great turnout at our local Democratic caucus, people of all ages, including some parents who brought their elementary and middle-school-age children to watch and learn. The caucus was to begin promptly at 7 p.m.
Lucky for us we arrived early and checked in within minutes. About 6:35 p.m. the line was very long. Evidently a lot of people came who needed to register; some of us were already registered. We carry our registration card with us. Our registration to vote allows us to attend ...
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
VOTE ON FEBRUARY 16
REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID.
WISCONSIN CAN HELP WORKING FAMILIES WITHOUT SPENDING A DIME
(Mandy Wright is a candidate for the 85h Assembly District of Wisconsin)
When I was a kid growing up just outside of Wausau, my parents knew how to be frugal, so we’d have enough for the future. My mom grew up on a farm and made a ham dinner that turned into sandwiches, then into ham salad, and finally, she’d boil the bone for split pea soup. Now split pea soup is my kids’ favorite dinner.
We should apply the same frugality to our hard-earned tax dollars, so our families and communities will have enough for the future. Despite all the fiscally conservative ...
