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		<title>The End?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, folks, today marks an important transition. Brandon had already started writing for North Park Street two months ago, leaving the warm confines of the Campus First for the larger demographic appeal, and visibility of NPS.  I now join Brandon as an author for North Park Street and as such will be leaving this blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=552&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want some cheese with that &#8220;whine&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/do-you-want-some-cheese-with-that-whine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After blasting both state and national Republicans (and politicians in general) last week, I must now fire back at the state Democrats. The Republicans recently released their plans for redistricting the state from the 2010 census, and immediately and without surprise, the Democrats cried foul and wanted the proposal thrown out. While their argument is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=546&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Brinksmanship: Playing Chicken with a Blind Driver</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/republican-brinksmanship-playing-chicken-with-a-blind-driver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debt Ceiling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican Party has taken its lumps, particularly in Wisconsin, but nationally still controls the House of Representatives and is exerting an almost unfathomable amount of power over the political process. Most specifically, when it comes to the current argument over the debt ceiling, noted conservative (small &#8220;c&#8221;) blogger David Brooks of the NYTimes has said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=541&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Decline of the Statesman and the Rise of Rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, I want to say that I work in a Republican&#8217;s office in the State Assembly; a Republican that I support and voted for. Additionally, I know many lawmakers from both parties and have friends on each side and folks that I&#8217;d rather not talk to on each side. People have asked me why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=535&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chancellor Martin to Leave UW-Madison for Amherst College</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING: this is the content of the email to all students from the Chancellor, more analysis to come after I&#8217;m off work. Dear Friends and Colleagues: I write to inform you that I have accepted the presidency of Amherst College, and I will conclude my term as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison later this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=531&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stillwater Bridge: A &#8220;Boondoggle&#8221; or just a Boon?</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/stillwater-bridge-a-boondoggle-or-just-a-boon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bipartisanship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Hulsey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s passing of a bill to replace the Stillwater Bridge sponsored by Senator Sheila Harsdorf (R-River Falls) by a large bipartisan majority, the commentary around the Capitol continued to reflect on the $225 million that had just been spent on what our very own Representative Brett Hulsey (D-Madison) called a &#8220;boondoggle bridge&#8221;. In his press release, Hulsey urged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=517&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stillwater Bridge: a Brief History</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/the-stillwater-bridge-a-brief-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Franken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bipartisanship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are over 2,000 bridges in Wisconsin deemed to be structurally deficient and earlier yesterday, the Wisconsin Assembly passed a bipartisan bill to rebuild the one at the center of one of the longest and strangest controversies between the Cheeseheads and East Dakota. Having lived in Osceola, Wisconsin, twenty miles from this bridge, I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=514&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Day, a Basket of Negative Publicity</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/zombie-day-a-basket-of-negative-publicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll preface this by saying that I am on the Board of Directors of United Council, which seems to imply that I was part of a board that could, you know, direct action for the organization. Well, this novel concept is not very well embraced in United Council, and today&#8217;s &#8220;Students are as good as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=509&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin&#8217;s Native Mascot Law pt 2</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/wisconsins-native-mascot-law-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/wisconsins-native-mascot-law-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mascot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blast from last summer, when the Democratic legislature passed a law requiring all schools with Native American mascots to change their name. I chronicled the event then, with my commentary, and my commentary still stands. Yesterday, a release was issued by Representative Craig (R-Town of Vernon) about a proposed amendment to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=499&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make Our School A Prison</title>
		<link>http://thecampusfirst.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/make-our-school-a-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a letter began floating around the interwebz from a superintendent in Michigan to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder. Consider the life of a Michigan prisoner. They get three square meals a day. Access to free health care. Internet. Cable television. Access to a library. A weight room. Computer lab. They can earn a degree. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thecampusfirst.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12248755&amp;post=494&amp;subd=thecampusfirst&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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