Monday night news round up (3.21.11)

Daniel Bice:  Senator's girlfriend had help getting state job
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/118341669.html


Keith Olbermann: Cut the unions, hire the girlfriends
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/63-63/5355-cut-the-unions-hire-the-girlfriends


Firedoglake: Walker helps State Senators' girlfriend land staff gig
http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/21/wisconsin-walker-helps-state-senators-girlfriend-land-staff-gig/


State Senator Tim Cullen (D) extends "olive branch"
http://www.wisn.com/video/27250353/detail.html


Taxing the rich would save billions more than cutting education and programs for main street
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/21/taxing-rich-save-billions/?wpmp_switcher=desktop


Robert Kraig:  Is this Wisconsin's second progressive movement?
http://www.progressive.org/mpkraig031911.html


Battle heats up to save SeniorCare
http://host.madison.com/ct/blogs/article_1b3b0cdc-53e5-11e0-8f24-001cc4c002e0.html


Attorney General wants hold on labor law removed
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118377819.html


William Cronon: Wisconsin's Radical Break
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/opinion/22cronon.html?_r=2


Supreme Court Justice David Prosser: I am running on my record of excellence
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/article_7e92424c-4f34-11e0-92c5-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story


Democracy set to Leonard Cohen soundtrack - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1vgdYsQgI


David McKay:  Of thee I sing
http://4quarters10dimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/of-thee-i-sing.html


PolitiFact rates Milwaukee Police Association statements on savings offered to City of Milwaukee as "Barely True"
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/mar/18/milwaukee-police-association/milwaukee-police-association-says-it-has-offered-s/


Developer cancels plan for big wind farm development
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/118397164.html


Assembly Representative Mark Pocan (D) letter to Jeff and Scott Fitzgerald
http://fightingbob.com/article.cfm?articleID=1292


William Mitchell:  Beyond Austerity
http://www.thenation.com/article/159288/beyond-austerity%20?page=0%2C1


Campus Connection:  TAA against breaking UW - Madison from system
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/campus_connection/article_5020f008-5406-11e0-a828-001cc4c002e0.html


Speedy drivers catch break with troopers at protests
http://www.channel3000.com/traffic/27256856/detail.html


CNN ireport: Senator Erpenbach visits La Crosse for a rally
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-576846


MinnPost David Fey:  Fundamental balance of power is being lost in Michigan, Wisconsin
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2011/03/21/26762/the_fundamental_balance_of_democracy_is_being_lost_in_michigan_and_wisconsin


Daily Kos:  My trip to La Crosse to collect recall signatures
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/19/958181/-My-Trip-to-Fond-Du-Lac,-WI-to-Gather-Recall-Signatures


Autonomous Solidarity Organization:  Voice for the voiceless.  A check on the powerful
http://asolidarity.org/


Chris Rickert:  Together again but for how long?
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/columnists/article_20621b86-52ed-11e0-bb5c-001cc4c03286.html


Moms Rising:  Tell Wisconsin Assembly: hands off Milwaukee paid sick days off ordinance
http://action.momsrising.org/sign/PSD_WI_3_2011/?fs=fb