Media Management: The Pentagon & WikiLeaks
Recent publicity suggests that the Pentagon is in the midst of a P.R. campaign to shape media coverage in advance of an imminently expected release of secret Iraq War documents from the whistleblower...
View ArticleSecret Iraq War Logs reveal Civilian Casualties, Ignored Abuse
A 2007 photograph shows a North Carolina memorial for U.S. casualties in the Iraq War. Since then, the American death toll has risen from 3883 to 4426, and classified death counts revealed by WikiLeaks...
View ArticleSenators Announce Plans to Privatize Elections
Excerpted from a 2013 Newspaper: WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of 37 senators today announced support for the "Restoring Freedom in American Democracy Act," introduced last week by senators...
View ArticleTale of Two News Feeds
Protests in Egypt continue to make headlines across the globe today, but not everyone is getting the same story. Take a look at this morning's (8:00am CDT) top story from the web feeds of two leading...
View ArticleRural Iowa is now even more rural.
It's official: 66 of 99 counties in Iowa lost people between 2000 and 2010, even while the overall state population increased by 4.1% owing to the growth of large cities and especially suburbs —...
View ArticleTo Be Fair, We Must Level Up
Protestors in Wisconsin on February 19, 2011. Photo © 2011 Mark Danielson. Obtained under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. The protests this month in Madison have...
View ArticleWisconsin Assembly Vote on Budget Repair: District by District
By now just about everyone has heard about the contentious Wisconsin Assembly vote early Friday morning that approved Governor Scott Walker's contentious "budget repair" bill in mere seconds — without...
View ArticleWisconsin Census Data Released
The United States Census Bureau today released its first official 2010 population figures for Wisconsin counties, cities, villages, and towns. These are exciting numbers, and not only for comparing...
View ArticleFloods Strike Again: A Case For Land Conservation
The Summer of 2013 began with floods, washouts, and landslides across the Driftless Area, destroying roadways and inundating homes in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. These events bring significant...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: “not a sweatshop”
Apple iPhone 3GS.Photo © 2009 Renato Mitra, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License 2.0. Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs spoke in California today and briefly defended working conditions at the...
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