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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is backing Wisconsin in a high-profile case asking the U.S. Supreme Court whether lawmakers can go too far when drawing political maps to advantage one party.
Rep. Melissa Sargent represents Wisconsin's 48th Assembly District, which covers the east and north sides of the city of Madison and the village of Maple Bluff. Two weeks ago she introduced LRB-2457, a bill to legalize recreational and medicinal marijuana in Wisconsin.She told the media that her bill "is so much more than legalizing marijuana-- it’s about legalizing opportunity and prosperity.
Kashana Cauley writes comedic bits for Trevor Noah. And yesterday, he wrote a decidedly not comedic OpEd for the NY Times, Why Millennials Should Lead the Next Labor Movement. When he was growing up, his dad was a union guy on the assembly line at an auto factory down in what is now Paul Ryan's congressional district. Cauley recalls that his dad's work "regularly sent him to the hospital for surgeries to drain extra fluid from his knees.
Do you remember a woman with the nom de guerre "Valley Girl" from early blogging days? She's been around the netroots for as long as there has been a netroots and I value her advise. She just wrote to me to tell me that she's been watching Randy Bryce's speeches on line and that in her opinion, he will be this generation's Bernie Sanders.
