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Wisconsin State Budget Plan Cuts Money for Recycling
2015-04-23 23:05:48| Waste Age
<a href="http://www.wearegreenbay.com/">We Are Green Bay</a> Local leaders are using Earth Day to express concerns over proposed cuts to the state's recycling program. read more
Wisconsin home sales jump 16 percent in March
2015-04-21 00:09:27| Real Estate - Topix.net
The Wisconsin Realtors Association says sales of existing homes in Wisconsin jumped 16 percent in March, compared with the same time a year ago. In a statement, association Chairman Dan Kruse says the housing market "is definitely heating up" heading into the prime home buying season.
Why some Wisconsin state employees are barred mentioning 'climate change'
2015-04-09 21:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: In George Orwell's classic novel, "1984," one of the plot lines is the continuous development of a fictional language called "Newspeak." The crafting of the language is an effort by the dictatorial government to ensure there would be no way to verbalize one's dissenting political thoughts because the vocabulary to do so would not exist. In Wisconsin and Florida, state legislators have employed a politically-motivated gagging of their own; the restriction of state employees who cannot discuss "climate...
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Wisconsin also stifles 'climate change' talk
2015-04-09 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MSNBC: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) recently generated national headlines after officials at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection claimed they were ordered not to use the terms climate change or global warming in any official communications. As is turns out, Florida isnt the only state hoping to narrow the scope of the climate discourse. Discussing climate change is out of bounds for workers at a state agency in Wisconsin. So is any work related to climate change even responding...
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Wisconsin GOP members on land board ban work climate change
2015-04-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wisconsin State Journal: A Wisconsin state board made up of elected officials voted 2-1 Tuesday to ban staff members of a small agency from on-the-job discussion or work related to climate change. Staffers for the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands had already removed a reference to climate change from its website in response to previous complaints by one board member, state Treasurer Matt Adamczyk. Adamczyk is a Republican who recently sought to dismiss board executive secretary Tia Nelson from her post after...
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