just hypocrisy

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, blasted the UW System Board of Regents for their "blatant partisan selection of Dr. Mnookin as the next leader for UW-Madison."

feels so jarring – in some ways, more jarring than our original rapid pivot to remote learning and work

whereas Local 223 at the University of Wis-consin shut down in the early 1950s after achieving many of its goals (Lester,1968; Sanders, 1979)

somefound that benefits accrued to workers in these categories whereas othersfound those at the highest and senior ranks gained most from unions.

Early studiesthat matched unionized and nonunionized institutions largely found short-term union wage premiums but diminished returns in later years, thoughmany lacked consideration of cost of living or other important factors. Morerecent research using large-scale data has raised questions about whether pre-miums continue to exist at 4-year colleges and have suggested that theyare smaller at 2-year colleges than previously believed

inNational Labor Rela-tions Boardv.Yeshiva University(1980),

'The Business Model of Education.' That doesn't mean a university's financial plan; instead it is the term for efforts to import business-style management systems into the university.

They work for a tiny set of self-motivated people and no one else

The best professors can still only teach so many students at once

Declining Public Funding. Most people don't realize, but public funding on higher education has been collapsing for a decade now

Only suchpublic statements shall be made, or issued, in the name of the Steering Committee ofthis federation as have been formally adopted in an official meeting of that Committee.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that groundwater pollution was subject to federal water-quality regulations as long as the connection to surface waters was the “functional equivalent” of a direct discharge such as a pipe. The new standard will hinge on scientific studies of how water and chemicals move underground,

Mayers chimed in that the two candidates who have announced a run for Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction are both women.

Historically women’s political involvement started in the schools. Forrest surprised even Mayers — an expert in Wisconsin politics — with this  bit of history, saying that even before women were given the vote, they were permitted to vote in school board elections in Wisconsin, education being considered a woman’s realm. (She added that not all women got the vote even after the 19th  Amendment passed, because Native American women were not considered citizens and African American women were still stopped by racist Jim Crow laws.) 

Kleefisch is planning to run for governor of Wisconsin in 2022 — she demurred with a “no comment.”

And the more women that we have serving in political office, the more trails we blaze and the more opportunities we have to tamp down the grass for the girls and women who come behind us.

When current State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski gave birth to her son last year, she had to write her own maternity leave policy because the state did not have one for constitutional officers,

“Most of the previous research focused on what these people have that makes them long-lived,” he says. “But [we want to look at] the opposite—it’s what they don’t have.”

Monday

you share just one solution, the clients spend the meeting trying to poke holes in it. To shift this mind-set, good presenters often share multiple options. That way, rather than focusing on flaws, the clients focus on which option they prefer, which makes them much more likely to support moving forward.

people are over-attached to the status quo, what social scientists call the “endowment effect.”

milquetoast

apparatchiks

He has been accused by eight women of misconduct, including one allegation of very serious sexual assault by his former Senate staffer Tara Reade

were built on production

Demonstrate that the public sector can build better hospitals, better schools, better transportation, better cities, better housing

Milton Friedman once said the great public sector mistake is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

And the problem is will. We need to build these things.

And we need to separate the imperative to build these things from ideology and politics. Both sides need to contribute to building

Rain ponchos! In 2020! In America!

Some behaviorists call that second problem the "spiral of invisibility,"

When students could see servers preparing their meals, they rated the food 22.2% better.

anchoring, endowed progress and the Google Effect

All I get are silent stares, stiff postures, and a clamped mouth.

A new 'army' of rats come in, and whichever army has the strongest rats is going to conquer that area."

Plants just stay their entire life in one space and have to survive from there,” LoPresti says. That’s not so different from many of us right now. “Seeing how they do it, and how each plant does it differently, is what motivates me.”

Armbruster and Muchhala hypothesized that this adaptation would only be present in flowers that need to be kept in a very precise horizontal orientation to be pollinated.

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o escape National Socialism,

I’m not being critical of what people are doing,” he told Gilbert. “But we also need to really understand the costs of potentially going too far here. But nobody knows what too far is, which is what’s so difficult about the situation

and voted against an aid package that passed Congress with Donald Trump’s support

As Right Wisconsin editor James Wigderson notes, Iron River is in Bayfield County. On Friday, the county reported its first death from the disease. “The individual was 78 years old, had no known contact with a lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 case, nor had traveled out of the area,” county health officials said in a statement. The victim’s race was not identified

“This isn’t common throughout the state. It’s common in Milwaukee. It’s common in Madison. Lock them down. I don’t need to be locked down.”

Ironically, the sign does not appear to be intended as a description of Trump’s failures, but rather a declaration of quasi-libertarian defiance.

then he deserves every Best Actor Oscar for the rest of all time

Bill Gates, Mike Pompeo, Deborah Birx, Steve Menuchan [sic], and George Soros.

Confederacy. So there can’t be any “heritage” cover story here: There’s only one reason someone in Wisconsin would fly the Stars ‘n’ Bar

and we also believe that they will make sure that they’re physically distant from each other,” Evers said. “

However, Uihlein herself was more forthcoming about her actions. She told the reporter that they included lobbying Republican legislators and circulating a petition to fire Evers.

I well understand that the Confederacy was more about states’ rights than slavery,” Westrate wrote in the Reopen Wisconsin Facebook group. “But that does not change the truth of how we should try to control the optics during the event.”

Ultimately, she asserted, it should be the task force’s goal to, “make sure that everyone in Wisconsin can get clean drinking water from their taps and enjoy their local lake, river, or stream.”

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Reps. Todd Novak (R-Dodgeville) and Travis Tranel (R-Cuba City)

I think it’s important to realize that if Gov. Tony Evers had not declared 2019 the Year of Clean Drinking Water, we wouldn’t be here today making sure that we’re acting on not just clean drinking water, but surface water and water quality in general,

Thus, PFAS and PFOS compounds have been dubbed, “forever chemicals,” which do not break down.

PFAS, along with PFOS and other related chemicals, have been linked to a variety of health issues both in animals and humans.

Access to funds has not been proportional across states; businesses in the West and Midwest have received a higher share of loans than those in other parts of the country, according to Time Magazine. 

according to Michael Keane, senior research analyst with the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, in his definitive history, “Redistricting in Wisconsin.”  

Because joint resolutions do not require the governor’s signature, the map could go into effect without any input from the governor.

In blog posts from before

State Republicans, backed by justices they have spent millions of dollars to help elec

chemokines

If the immune system doesn’t beat back SARS-CoV-2 during this initial phase, the virus then marches down the windpipe to attack the lungs, where it can turn deadly. The thinner, distant branches of the lung’s respiratory tree end in tiny air sacs called alveoli, each lined by a single layer of cells that are also rich in ACE2 receptors.

They found that cells there are rich in a cell-surface receptor called angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). Throughout the body, the presence of ACE2, which normally helps regulate blood pressure, marks tissues vulnerable to infection, because the virus requires that receptor to enter a cell.

"I cannot even begin to describe the public backlash that will occur if #Corinavirus [sic] kills fewer Americans this year than the flu," wrote Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author who was pardoned by Trump after a felony conviction of making illegal campaign contributions. "For starters, the medical establishment will look like even bigger fools than the #ClimateChange establishment."

Patrick Moore, the chairman of the CO2 Coalition, which claims the world needs to burn more fossil fuels to help the planet and has connections to the Trump White Hous

A peer-reviewed analysis of 50 years of climate models published last year in Geophysical Research Letters found they "were generally quite accurate in predicting global warming in the years after publication" and a useful way of forecasting climate conditions.

Everything from public health, to economic to climate predictions. It isn't the scientific method, folks

The regents’ executive committee is set to meet Thursday afternoon to adjust personnel policies to allow system President Ray Cross and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank to create furlough policies.

until February 2021.

as well as

A Facebook group titled "Wisconsin Freedom Rally" calls for residents to amass at the state Capitol on April 24 to call for an end to the order. As of Thursday, more than 700 people had indicated they planned to attend.

182 people and sickened more than 3,700 in Wisconsin.

Under the new order, local health officials can close down local parks and open spaces if it becomes difficult to maintain social distancing requirements.

the “safer at home” order exists independently of the public health emergency and falls under the Department of Health Services’ authority to respond to communicable diseases.

requested last month in his proposed legislative package that lawmakers extend the statewide public health emergency indefinitely until it is revoked by the Legislature.

not to disregard the laws and act like a king.

Evers’ public health emergency can remain in effect until May 11. After that, any extension would require support from the Legislature.

with some relaxed restrictions allowing some businesses to reopen or provide limited services.

Memorial Day weekend 

Officers responded to the Beltline/Todd Drive for a truck vs. pedestrian crash.  Lifesaving measures were attempted on the pedestrian, but were unsuccessful.

The driver was found under the influence.  The driver (31-year-old male) was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (3rd offense). 

The vehicle was returned to its registered owner.  A witness reported observing four juveniles in the vehicle earlier.  Another set of keys (to a different stolen vehicle) were found in the vehicle. 

Officers responded to a residence where a juvenile reported being struck by her mother.  Investigation revealed that the mother had taken away the juvenile's phone after the juvenile was found hiding a male juvenile in her closet.  The mother discovered the juvenile had another phone and when she went to grab it she ended up striking the juvenile in the lip.  No injuries observed.  Child Protective Services contacted.  Other claims of abuse unfounded.  No charges substantiated at this time.

an officer could easily contract the virus from someone who is completely asymptomatic.

The law – signed yesterday – now requires proof that the first responder was exposed to an individual with a confirmed case of COVID-19 to receive any worker's compensation benefits.

16 deaths here in Dane County

natural and social mutualism

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In late 2014, the university reorganized its research and graduate leadership, creating the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education.

One of our big priorities is to set up a campus-wide mentoring program and we are working with (Graduate School) Dean Karpus and the Provost’s office to establish that