This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included the event’s welcome and the first panel. That panel discussed how segregation and social inequity has been challenged. Panelists include: Joe Trotter (Prof. of History at Carnegie Mellon), Patrick Jones (Asst. Prof of History at UNL), William Jones, (Assoc. Prof. of History, UW-Madison), Jack Dougherty (Assoc. Prof at Trinity College), Peggy Rozga (Prof. of English at UW-Waukesha/ Former NAACP Youth Council member), Fred Reed (former Commando). The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included the event’s welcome and the first panel. That panel discussed how segregation and social inequity has been challenged. Panelists include: Joe Trotter (Prof. of History at Carnegie Mellon), Patrick Jones (Asst. Prof of History at UNL), William Jones, (Assoc. Prof. of History, UW-Madison), Jack Dougherty (Assoc. Prof at Trinity College), Peggy Rozga (Prof. of English at UW-Waukesha/ Former NAACP Youth Council member), Fred Reed (former Commando). The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included the event’s second panel. That panel discussed What continues to cause segregation and other structural forms of social inequity. Panelists include: Rhonda Williams, (Assoc. Prof. of History Case Western), Gregory Squires (Prof of Sociology, GWU), Rose Brewer (Assoc. Prof. of African American and African Studies, UMN), William Tisdale and Carla Wertheim, (Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council). The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included the event’s second panel. That panel discussed what continues to cause segregation and other structural forms of social inequity. Panelists include: Rhonda Williams, (Assoc. Prof. of History Case Western), Gregory Squires (Prof of Sociology, GWU), Rose Brewer (Assoc. Prof. of African American and African Studies, UMN), William Tisdale and Carla Wertheim, (Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council). The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included a lunch break discussion of Milwaukee’s open housing marches with Vel Phillips, first woman and first African-American on Milwaukee’s Common Council, and Dick Gregory, comedian and social activist. The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

This program, part of the March on Milwaukee Community Conference, included the breakout session “Memories of the Milwaukee Marches.” Former NAACP Youth Council members and former Commandos present their stories of marching with Father James Groppi and participating in open housing demonstrations in the late 1960s. Panelists include Paul Waldheim (former Commando), Ken McGee (former Commando), Peggy Rozga (widow of James Groppi), Pamela Jo Sargent (former NAACP Youth Council member), Marianne Arms former NAACP Youth Council member), Janette Mitchell Herrera former NAACP Youth Council member), Kofi Antone (former Commando), Wilbur Arms (former Commando). The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

The community conference held at UW-Milwaukee’s Union Ballroom on September 29, united community members with historians, policy analysts, politicians, activists, teachers and students in a discussion about segregation and other forms of social inequity in Milwaukee. The March on Milwaukee coordinating committee is made up of a diverse group of educators and activists. Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, Professor of English at UW-Waukesha and widow of Father Groppi, convened in the spring 2006 to help plan events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Milwaukee Open Housing Marches.

Sen. Jeff Plale, D-South Milwaukee, Rep. Thomas Lothian, R-Williams Bay, Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, unveiled LRB 2393, the so-called Wisconsin Dog Purchaser Protection Act, a bill that aims place heightened restrictions on commercial dog breeders, on September 27 during a press conference at the Capitol. The legislators said that the bill came in response to public outcry over reports of large scale dog breeding facilities that were using inhumane practices

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Judith Robson, D-Beloit, held a press conference from the State Capitol September 27 to address the status of negotiations over the state budget.

Assembly Speaker Rep. Michael Huebsch, R-West Salem, held a press conference from the State Capitol September 27 on the state budget. Huebsch urged the State Senate to pass Assembly Bill 506, relating to state finances and approporiations for state school aids for the 2007-09 fiscal biennium, school district revenue limits, school safety grants, pupil transportation reimbursement rate, the school breakfast reimbursement rate, county and municipal aid, the school levy property tax credit, and making appropriations. Assembly Majority Leader Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, also participated in the press conference. They discussed the status of negotiations over the state budget.

State Senate Republicans Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and Sen. Joe Leibham, R- Sheboygan held a press conference at the Capitol September 27 and called on the Senate Democrats, who are in the majority in the Senate, to schedule a vote on Assembly Bill 506, relating to state finances and approporiations for state school aids for the 2007-09 fiscal biennium, school district revenue limits, school safety grants, pupil transportation reimbursement rate, the school breakfast reimbursement rate, county and municipal aid, the school levy property tax credit, and making appropriations. The Senators took questions from reporters on the status of the budget negotiations.

In 2006 the Sokaogon Chippewa tribe created a new annual event – Mole Lake Heritage Days – to celebrate the tribe’s history and to raise money for a historical landmark on the its reservation. The Sokaogon Chippewa Community is a band of the Lake Superior Chippewa. Many members of the tribe reside on the Mole Lake Indian Reservation located in Forest County near the city of Crandon.

Department of Administration Secretary Michael Morgan was the featured guest at a WisPolitics.com luncheon at the the Madison Club in Madison, Wis. on September 25. Morgan discussed the state budget with WisPolitics.com Editor J.R. Ross.

Benjamin Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington, D.C., looked at the impact of immigration and organized immigrant advocacy grounds in national politics -- on the streets and in the voting booth -- in this lecture at the Overture Center in Madison on September 25. The program, the third of a four-part weekly series, was presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

The Wisconsin Video Choice Coalition held a press conference in the Senate Parlor at the State Capitol September 24 to announce the results of a consumer poll on video competition. The coalition is comprised of more than a dozen other labor, business and community organizations in Wisconsin, including the Communications Workers of America, Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, African American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Milwaukee, Ministerial Alliance Against the Digital Divid, Women Impacting Public Policy, United Community Center, Wisconsin Technology Council, Wisconsin Supplier Development Council, American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and the Wisconsin Independent Business Association. The coalition supports a bill in the legislature, also known by supporters as the Wisconsin Video Competition Act.

In an interview with WisconsinEye on September 24 UW-Madison Professor of Medicine and Director of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention Dr. Michael C. Fiore discussed a proposed bill, Senate Bill 150, which would institute a statewide smoking ban. He also discussed a bill which would raise the cigarette tax as well as the health effects of smoking.

U.S. Rep. Dave Obey, D-Wausua, was in Stevens Point on September 22 to promote the release of his book "Raising Hell For Justice." The book chronicles his experiences during his stay in the House of Representatives, through changing national legislation, the fall of Communism, and working along with American Presidents for more than 30 years.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor and author of the book "Henry Kissinger and the American Century" Jeremi Suri and Campus Antiwar Network member and university senior Zach Heise discussed past and present protests at the Madison Campus. The day before the discussion, Heise participated in a protest against the presence of Haliburton Co. recruiters at a career fair. The Campus Antiwar Network called the company's role in the Iraq reconstruction war-profiteering. Suri recalled a similar protest on campus in 1967 protest against recruiters for Dow Chemical Co., which was producing napalm, a chemical weapon used in the Vietnam War.

Assembly Speaker Michael Huebsch, R-West Salem, held a press conference in the Assembly Parlor at the State Capitol September 21, to talk about the state budget process. The Committee of Conference on Senate Bill 40 met earlier that day. Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and Rep. Kitty Rhoades, R-Hudson joined Huebsch at the press conference.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Judith Robson, D-Beloit, held a press conference in the Senate President's Conference Room at the State Capitol September 21, to talk about the state budget process. The Committee of Conference on Senate Bill 40 met earlier that day.

This technology exposition--the largest in Wisconsin--is a three-day outdoor event that showcases the latest improvements in production agriculture. Each year, it is held in a different Wisconsin county--on a different host family farm. The 2007 event was held in Green County.

WisconsinEye toured the Plain View Stock Farm in Albany, the site of the 2007 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. For three days the family's Plain View Stock Farm was the site of this annual event which exhibits the latest in agriculture and farm equipment.

Alice in Dairyland, Jill Makovec, introduces the Blumer family of Green County, the host of the 2007 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. For three days the family's Plain View Stock Farm was the site of this annual event which exhibits the latest in agriculture and farm equipment.

The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation held their Second Annual Dialogue: The Economic Impact of Smoking on September 18. A panel of speakers, which included former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, discussed the economic impact of smoking and strategies for a creating a tobacco-free workplace in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation held their Second Annual Dialogue: The Economic Impact of Smoking on September 18. A panel of speakers, which included former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, discussed the economic impact of smoking and strategies for a creating a tobacco-free workplace in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation held their Second Annual Dialogue: The Economic Impact of Smoking on September 18. A panel of speakers, which included former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, discussed the economic impact of smoking and strategies for a creating a tobacco-free workplace in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation held their Second Annual Dialogue: The Economic Impact of Smoking on September 18. A panel of speakers, which included former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, discussed the economic impact of smoking and strategies for a creating a tobacco-free workplace in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Women's Health Foundation held their Second Annual Dialogue: The Economic Impact of Smoking on September 18. A panel of speakers, which included former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, discussed the economic impact of smoking and strategies for a creating a tobacco-free workplace in Wisconsin.

Assembly Speaker Michael Huebsch, R-West Salem, held a press conference in the Assembly Parlor at the State Capitol September 18, to talk about the state budget process.

WisconsinEye traveled through southwestern Wisconsin to visit organic farms damaged by August flooding. Harriet Behar of MOSES, Richard de Wilde of Harmony Organics, Noah Engel of Driftless Organics, and Jai Kellum of Avalanche Organics discussed the flooding problems while touring their farms on September 5 and 17.

WisconsinEye hosted a panel discussion on September 12 on Latino culture and citizenship with Dr. Carolina Gonzalez-Schlenker, member of the Latino Health Council in Madison, Salvador Carranza, president of Latinos United for Change and Advancement, Sol Carbonell, Associate of National Priorities at Consumer Action, Antonio Noguera, Associate Faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and David Duran, Treasurer and Co-founder of UNIDOS Against Domestic Violence, Inc. The panel was hosted by Karen Lincoln Michel, Madison Bureau Chief for the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Jeff Mayers from WisPolitics.com interviewed Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, at a luncheon held in Madison, Wis on September 10. Subjects such as the state budget, the statewide smoking ban and the cigarette tax were discussed.

Host John Powell interviewed two representatives of AARP Wisconsin, September 10. Gail Sumi, state issues advocate, and Lisa Lamkins, federal issues advocate, discussed the many health care reform plans being debated in our state. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people over fifty years old have independence, choice and control in ways that are beneficial and affordable to them and to society as a whole.

The sixth annual Fighing Bob Fest took place at the Sauk County Fairgrounds in Baraboo, Wis. on September 8. The event features progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment and claims to carry on the tradition of Wisconsin politician, Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, by providing a forum for progressive ideas on issues facing Wisconsin and the nation. Anti-war activist, Cindy Sheehan, was among the featured speakers in 2007.