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The Clarion

The news site of Madison Area Technical College

The Clarion

The news site of Madison Area Technical College

The Clarion

Walker impedes progress again, with implemention of the Affordable Care Act

Ellen La Luzerne, Staff Writer November 13, 2012

Walker is doing it again – ignoring laws, making secret plans and perhaps undermining Wisconsin citizens’ quality of life. As of Nov. 16, all states must submit plans for implementing “Obamacare”...

Illustration of Bucky Badger excluding other UW schools from his tree house.

New Badger Partnership still sparking debates

Sarah Blaskey, Managing Editor June 28, 2011

A highly controversial part of the governor’s biennial budget proposal, the New Badger Partnership, would allow University of Wisconsin-Madison more flexibility in certain areas such as tuition, financial...

Letter to the Editor: Current budget situation

Phil Gasper, Interim Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences April 13, 2011

Dear Editor, Sarah Blaskey’s article on the current budget situation (“Crisis mode,” March 30, 2011) provides a good overview of the difficult decisions that are being made at Madison Area Technical...

Letter to the Editor: Benefits of Unions

Cinder Roherty April 13, 2011

Dear Editor, In college I read “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. It was not an enjoyable book. It chronicled the conditions in which immigrants worked in Chicago, during the turn of the twentieth...

Crisis Mode: State legislation causes budget gap for college

Sarah Blaskey, Managing Editor March 30, 2011

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed biennium budget for 2011-2013 slashes funding for state technical colleges by $35.8 million each year and freezes tax levies at the current dollar amount. This puts significant...

State Supreme Court race takes center stage

Aaron Childers, Staff Writer March 30, 2011

Judge Dave Prosser and JoeAnne Kloppenburg squared off at the University of Wisconsin Law School for a candidate forum sponsored by Wisconsin Public Television on March 25. In Wisconsin, Supreme Court...

Behavior of leaders during budget battle leaves bad taste

Jennifer Abplanalp, Opinions Editor March 9, 2011

“To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making,” Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire, once said. So have been the past few weeks in Madison...

Letter to the Editor: Students will be hit hard by governor’s plan

Benjamin Oertel, Student March 9, 2011

Dear Editor, I am a student and a parent. I do not agree with Gov. Scott Walker and the ideas he is putting forth. He is going too far in this so-called budget repair bill and the fiscal budget itself. ...

Leaders fail to unite people by playing political games

Greg Kuper, Staff Writer March 9, 2011

In only 235 years, our country was born, grew, flourished and now is dying. America’s upswing was because of great people who united and led Americans to greatness and freedom. The death of this country...

It’s money vs. people in battle between big business and unions

Jon Mack, Staff Writer March 9, 2011

This is war. It has been for years. Only this time, it didn’t go down how it was supposed to. The middle class fought back. The obscenely wealthy and their Republican henchmen have gotten so used to...

Governor’s budget puts caps on education

Aaron M. Childers & Sara Blaskey, Staff Writers March 9, 2011

Thousands gathered outside the Capitol to protest as Gov. Scott Walker gave his biennium budget address on Tuesday, March 1.  At Madison Area Technical College’s Truax campus, hundreds more gathered...

Letter to the Editor: Rushing plan prevents analysis of impact

Association of Career Employees February 23, 2011

Dear Editor, The Association of Career Employees (ACE) has served as a voice for civil service employees for nearly 30 years. ACE is not a union, but works to insulate the civil service from political...

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