State employee unions won’t surrender 2-percent raises
5/22/09
Governor Doyle and the leaders of two of Wisconsin's key state employees unions are in a stare-down.
Doyle wants the unions to forego their scheduled two-percent pay raises, and accept the same furloughs as non-union state employees are going to have to take over the course of the next two-year budget. If they don't, the governor says he'll cut 400 union jobs.
But the unions say they're not giving up their raises until the state stops giving additional work to private, outside contractors.
Bryan Kennedy, president of one of those unions, A-F-T Wisconsin, talked to WPR’s Terry Bell about the situation…
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Listen to Terry Bell’s interview the creator of the Comix exhibit at the Chazen Museum
5/08/09
In the 1960's, American culture went through a number of changes. And even the comics weren't exempt. In that turbulent decade, comics went "underground", and helped revolutionize society, commercial publishing, and the graphic arts.
Underground comics are the subject of a new book, and exhibit at Madison's Chazen Museum of Art... both called "Underground Classics: The Transformation of comics (with an "s") to comix (with an "x"). Jim Danke is the co-author of the book, and curator of the exhibit, and he joins us now…
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Climber makes final push to hit ultimate peak
Purchases by government tend to dominate land preservation efforts in Wisconsin. But the state's largest PRIVATE donation for conservation opens its gate to the public on Saturday. Chuck Quirmbach reports…
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5/15/09
