A couple of weeks ago, we spoke with the City of Madison’s sustainability coordinator about the work city government has undertaken to clean up its act. However, the public sector makes up only a small percentage of the carbon emissions, waste, fossil fuel consumption produced in the Madison/Dane County area. Getting the private sector to […]
Medicaid System Frauds: Honest Mistake or Unjust Claims?
During his tenure in the Governor’s office, outgoing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker frequently touted the work his Administration did to combat waste and fraud in state government. Walker bragged that in 2017, state inspectors found $150 million in Medicaid fraud and overpayments. That sounds impressive, until you realize that $150 million is less than 2% […]
The Beacon Homeless Day Center at One Year Old
Years in the making, and after several disappointing setbacks, Madison’s homeless day resource center, the Beacon, opened a little over a year ago. It’s been a turbulent, busy year. Since it’s opening in October, 2017, the Beacon has served 235 guests a month — 80% more than originally anticipated, providing a diverse suite of services […]
Dark Money and Stealth Media
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans consume broadcast and cable media, while more and more consume digital social media. In 2016, paid political advertising on internet social media platforms like Facebook dwarfed their broadcast counterparts to the tune of $1.4 billion in 2016. But with the Supreme Court lifting spending caps on so-called issue ads […]
Governing Wisconsin in Secret
Anyone who has taken a high school history course in the United States knows how how laws are supposed to be made. An elected representative introduces a bill, which is identified by title, the legislature holds a public hearing to solicit comment and input, and then, after deliberation, the bill may be amended to address […]
IPCC Predicts a Climate Catastrophe by 2040
On October 8, 2018, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) approved its latest report at its meeting in Incheon, South Korea. The report states that human activity has already been responsible for 1 degree Celsius of global warming, and if we continue as we have, we’ll heat up the planet another […]
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