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Credit: CHRIS KNIGHT, The Patriot-News In reaction to the many restrictive laws passed in 2012, there has been an influx of new laws to enhance voter participation in 2013. However, in Wisconsin, the voter ID law battle is back. In 2011, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a law requiring voters to show "acceptable government-sanctioned photo identification either at the polls or to election officials" to be allowed to vote. This law, which requires specific types of photo ID, including a state-i

Credit: courantblogs.com "In recent days, it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate," Facebook wrote in an open letter earlier this week. This proclamation comes just one week after an online campaign organized by Women, Action and The Media and The Everyday Sexism Project rocked the Internet, calling on Facebook advertisers to pull their ads from pages trivializin

In modern American politics, the word “socialist” has lost a great deal of its true meaning, robbed of its shock value by frequent overuse and naïve misapplication. Many a conservative pundit has warned President Obama and the national Democratic leadership seek to steer the United States towards a socialistic, or even worse, Marxist state, far from anything the Founders envisioned when they penned the Constitution. Rightwing shock jocks, still waging the early 1990s “culture wars,” have railed

Earlier this month, a prominent and award-winning political watchdog group in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, had its budget cut in half after losing funding from one of its biggest donors. Since 1995, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) has provided the Badger State with increased transparency and an easy-to-follow paper trail for money in state politics. The organization offers the state's only searchable online database of contributors to state campaigns, a service that curre

(Credit: Gage Skidmore) With a spate of shootings in recent months, there are calls for tighter gun control and President Obama has political capital to spend. Getting much of what he wanted with the fiscal cliff, the president has proposed twenty-three executive orders, a practice he criticized while a U.S. Senator, to address gun policy in the event Congress does not pass adequate legislation. On the other side, Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul declared on TV that the president does not have

Photo: WisPolitics.com // Creative Commons Wisconsin has been in the national spotlight over the past two years as Governor Walker's legislative agenda shook up the Badger State, drastically cutting the state's budget and ending collective bargaining rights. Between the massive protests and multiple recall elections, the nation's eyes have watched Walker survive multiple challenges and climb into the beloved ranks of the Republican Party. Following this national acclaim, his name is now being f

For the past several days, across our country, we have been glued to the news at the horrible events in Newtown, Connecticut.  The word "tragic" just doesn't seem to do any good to describe this awful event.  But it finally has this nation talking about several subjects that have been off limits for the past several years.  I'm not here to discuss gun control or not.  I did that in an article last August when no one else seemed to be talking about it after the shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin

Credit: www.ed.gov Illinois, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, and Wisconsin will get a share of the 2012 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge, a $133 million grant fund to enhance superiority and expand access to education programs throughout those states. The five finalists join the nine existing state grantees who secured first-round funding last year. Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, said that every child is worthy of the lasting benefits of a high-class learning program: "Than

This year has been turbulent with gun related homicides; highlighted by the killing sprees in Aurora, Colorado, the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and now the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. However, arguably more striking is the staggering number of shootings in Chicago this year, which is on course to reach 3,000 before the year’s end. Yet, reforming the nation’s gun policy is considered a taboo topic in Washington, DC. This was exampled during this year’s second presidential

Photo: Governor Walker Facebook Page Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker endorsed the Republican legislature’s efforts to end same day voter registration in his home state.  Wisconsin is currently one of nine states in the country to have same day voter registration, a measure which is credited with producing traditionally high voter turnout. Wisconsin has had same day voter registration since 1976, but Walker stated same day voter registration poses problems to safeguarding elections. He noted th