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Impasse in Madison does not serve the public good.
WHETHER EITHER SIDE wants to admit it or not, there are two separate issues in play regarding the showdown in Madison.
The first and most immediate is this: There is a hole in this fiscal year budget '…

The other issue involves the proper role — if there is one — for public employee unions. That’s the tougher question, the one currently dividing the state into angry camps. Wisconsin has a long and mostly proud history with America’s labor movement. Indeed, Wisconsin even claims to be the birthplace of public unionism. Now Walker wants to all but abolish unions from the public square. No wonder his anti-collective bargaining stance is proving to be explosively contentious

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