A few weeks ago a serious incident took place at Palermo’s pizza. A young man suffered an accident while operating one of the machines. All of the proper authorities are aware and the company has vowed to stand by their injured worker. That being said, Voces de la Frontera took this tragic incident and politicized the matter calling for unionization at the company. In addition, Voces de la Frontera is charging that Palermo’s CEO redacted documents in an effort to cover-up past worker injuries. In a press release Voces de la Frontera charges that Palermo’s “hid information about injuries that...

Legislators are moving a law that would allow alcohol vendors to sue underage patrons for $1,000. The law is the brainchild of several Republicans, but Zamarripa says its a bipartisan effort. Last week all the legislators on the state Assembly’s Committee on State Affairs supported the law which is now moving onto the Assembly for a vote. So in addition to the criminal penalties these young alcohol-seeking law breakers face, they will now have to pony-up an additional $1,000.00 to the bar owner, if he or she decides to sue the young party goer for coming into their establishment to...

Administrations that practice a significant level of openness in Government do our democracy a great service. Practicing a level of openness ensures the public trust is maintained and establishes a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government. Wisconsin lawmakers understood that openness in government will make for an honest governElementary and unscrupulousment. Because they did, Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law (Wis. Stats. §§ 19.81-19.98)was implemented. Wisconsin’s Public Records Law entitles the public to the greatest possible information about government affairs. The law requires most government bodies to conduct official...

Giving into the mega-corporate food manufacturing behemoth, Monsanto, president Barrack Obama turned his back on the health of the people to favor corporate profits. The “Monsanto Protection Act” is the name opponents of this law have given to this terrifying piece of policy, and it’s a fitting moniker given its shocking content. President Barack Obama signed a spending bill, HR 933, into law recently that includes language that has food and consumer advocates and organic Obama Failed to Protect Americans from Corporate Manufactured Cropsfarmers up in arms over their contention that the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act” is a giveaway to...

Ten years ago the U.S. military began its assault on Iraq. Ten years ago I wrote in opposition to the war, ten years later, I still stand in opposition to this costly war. Invading Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein a decade ago was one of the biggest strategic errors in modern American history. The truth is that America should have never entered into a war against Iraq. I recall when Bush ordered the invasion, a Lebanese Shiite friend said, “if Rome is strong, the provinces are ready”. In other words, if America’s attack against Iraq was just, then America would...

The chaos set to be unleashed over the next month through the implementation of sequestration budget cuts beginning today is not an accident. For a large part of the Republican Party and the secretive billionaires that fund them, the disruptive shockwave that will be caused by investing less in historically marginalized communities is the point. Since the 1970s—through ideas which can only be thought of as flawed and eccentric—an ideological band has championed an end to the education, health, transportation and housing programs that have made America more economically fair. In point of fact, sequestration is just an extension of...

“There is looming up a new and dark power…the enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economic conquest only, but for political power…For the first time really in our politics, money is taking the field as an organized power. It is unscrupulous, arrogant, and overbearing…The question will arise and arise in your day…which shall rule wealth or [people]; which shall lead money or intellect; who shall fill public stations educated and patriotic [people], or the feudal serfs of corporate capital.” –Chief Justice Ryan of the Wisconsin Supreme Court addressing the UW...

By Robert Miranda Imagine waking up one morning to find Milwaukee County government as you knew it gone. After years of reported corruption and mismanagement by the local media the blue-collar county of southeastern Wisconsin fired almost all of its employees, dismantled the sheriff’s department and contracted with a giant corporation to manage county tasks. Let’s further imagine that after a referendum, officials announced that Milwaukee County will become the state’s first county to be fully outsourced. The move is unprecedented. Spurred by deficits and facing multiple lawsuits, county leaders saw outsourcing as a light at the end of a...

Newly elected state representative Sanfelippo says that his resolution to create part-time positions on the county board of supervisors is motivated by his desire to have “good government”. I have no reason not to believe that that is what Representative Sanfelippo is trying to achieve with his campaign. However, Sanfelippo’s “good government” campaign is not about a government that is dedicated to the Wisconsin Idea of government. His notion of good government is a government that practices the business model of governance. His is a government model that turns away from spending in areas that present a risk such as...