Headline: Governing, 5/8/2023
Back in 2015, Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, thought to burnish his culture warrior cred in advance of a bid for the presidency by taking arms against the University of Wisconsin.
Walker cut the state university’s budget. His hand-picked board of regents gutted tenure protections for its faculty.
He and his legislative allies disdained the university’s traditional role of producing broad-based academic scholarship to deepen its students’ understanding of the world and talked instead as though the university were a glorified vocational or trade school — “connecting students and workers with the skills needed in today’s workforce,” as a university spokesperson put it at the time.
You may quibble about Wisconsin being lumped together with red states, but when it comes to our gerrymandered state legislature, we are most definitely a red state as far as representation is concerned.
December 2018
The first 3 chapters: environment, transportation, corrections. (12/12)
Chapter 4: Wisconsin families can't afford basic necessities edition. (12/12)
Chapter 5: Scott Walker's shameful legacy: The black-white high-school graduation gap edition. (12/12)
Chapter 6. Scott Walker's shameful legacy (the higher education edition). (12/13)
January 2019
Taking credit where no credit is due. (1/7)
Not telling the whole story. (1/7)
Gliding over the disparities. (1/7)
Voter suppression. (1/7)
Just fine and dandy with treading water over high school graduation rates. (1/8)
And then, to make matters worse, he apparently hacks his son's Twitter account. (1/9)
Dear Scott Walker, You forgot to mention this part of "OUR LEGACY". Best, Retiring Guy. (1/12)
Scott Walker's toxic legacy: "Power to the people" hypocrisy" (Taking away local control). (1/12)
Pay to play the groundwater contamination way. (1/12)
Addicted to political slogans. (1/12)
Blaming his predecessor. (1/19)
Fast-tracking bills, stifling public participation. (1/23)
February 2019
UW Regents as campaign donors' club. (2/8)
Act 10, not working. (2/15)
April 2019
Scott Walker environmental legacy UPDATE: Little to no review, lax enforcement, more contaminated groundwater. (4/22)
The first 3 chapters: environment, transportation, corrections. (12/12)
Chapter 4: Wisconsin families can't afford basic necessities edition. (12/12)
Chapter 5: Scott Walker's shameful legacy: The black-white high-school graduation gap edition. (12/12)
Chapter 6. Scott Walker's shameful legacy (the higher education edition). (12/13)
January 2019
Taking credit where no credit is due. (1/7)
Not telling the whole story. (1/7)
Gliding over the disparities. (1/7)
Voter suppression. (1/7)
Just fine and dandy with treading water over high school graduation rates. (1/8)
And then, to make matters worse, he apparently hacks his son's Twitter account. (1/9)
Dear Scott Walker, You forgot to mention this part of "OUR LEGACY". Best, Retiring Guy. (1/12)
Scott Walker's toxic legacy: "Power to the people" hypocrisy" (Taking away local control). (1/12)
Pay to play the groundwater contamination way. (1/12)
Addicted to political slogans. (1/12)
Blaming his predecessor. (1/19)
Fast-tracking bills, stifling public participation. (1/23)
February 2019
UW Regents as campaign donors' club. (2/8)
Act 10, not working. (2/15)
April 2019
Scott Walker environmental legacy UPDATE: Little to no review, lax enforcement, more contaminated groundwater. (4/22)
Frac sand nightmare. (4/25)
Chapter 6 UPDATE. State Higher Education Executives Officers Association confirms Scott Walker's shameful higher education legacy. (4/26)
Chapter 6 UPDATE. State Higher Education Executives Officers Association confirms Scott Walker's shameful higher education legacy. (4/26)
The destructive legacy of Governor Scott "We're # 1" Walker: the 30 billion pound milkman. (4/27)
May 2019
The piggy bank otherwise known as WEDC. (5/14)
Giving children with complex mental health needs the shaft edition). (5/17)
June 2019
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: Achieves jobs creation pledge in 8 years instead of 4. (6/8)
Heartless bastard. (6/14)
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: The Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake youth prison scandal. (6/21)
September 2019
Act 10 puts rural school districts in an even deeper hole. (9/3)
October 2019
Foregoing federal funds. (10/19)
December 2019
Bashing Madison. (12/8/2019)
May 2019
The piggy bank otherwise known as WEDC. (5/14)
Giving children with complex mental health needs the shaft edition). (5/17)
June 2019
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: Achieves jobs creation pledge in 8 years instead of 4. (6/8)
Heartless bastard. (6/14)
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: The Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake youth prison scandal. (6/21)
September 2019
Act 10 puts rural school districts in an even deeper hole. (9/3)
October 2019
Foregoing federal funds. (10/19)
December 2019
Bashing Madison. (12/8/2019)
2020
Legacy of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: State as bottom feeder when it comes to funding of four-year public universities. (4/22/2023)
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