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There’s a lot of talk now about UW faculty being poached or just looking to flee the state. The following is a real letter from a senior fac...

Look at this clip of an interview with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. The host, Mike Gousha, asks specifically about tenure, ...

This blog has been silent about recent developments aimed at destroying the University of Wisconsin by more rapid defunding, by dismantling ...

Earlier this year, I started noticing t-shirts and hoodies bearing the phrase 'Drink Wisconsinbly', like in the image here. (And, ye...

Dear readers, You should be the first to know. After literally decades of studying how language works and changes and what it tells us abou...

And here's the actual link , with location, etc. Be there or be square.

Our contributor Joe had posted earlier about the lengths that the UW Libraries were going to to restore our copy of the amazing Deutscher Sp...

Everybody in Wisconsin knows that the recalls are coming fast and hard. The primary is Tuesday to select the D who'll run against the R ...

If you live in the rapidly deteriorating state of Wisconsin, you know the latest news , namely: Wisconsin is the only state in the nation ...

Various linguablogs have discussed lots of 'crash blossoms' (see here ). A couple of years ago over at the Log , Geoffrey Pullum q...

I've been following Governor Scott Walker on Twitter for a good while now and there are two clear trends. First, most stuff is unspeakab...

Russ Feingold is a Wisconsin icon. If you go around Madison, you can easily find bumper stickers that say "Russ Feingold will always ...

The anniversary of the event that started it all … See you there.

Sorry that we've been on a bit of a hiatus here ... beginning of the semester, etc. People especially from out of state are asking about...

The fight against the de-democraticization of Wisconsin has been filled with good, clean humor of the sort that our state is known for. Of...

Apply in the governor's office or at the state GOP hq, I guess … see 'lastest' tweet below, from the party's official websit...

Scott Walker may be polishing up his resume, now that the recall signature effort has likely passed the halfway mark ( here ) less than tw...

United Wisconsin is organizing the recall effort against the Koch Brothers' pawn in Wisconsin, "Governor" Scott Walker. Some o...

There's been a ton of talk about how badly state employees, including UW-Madison workers, have fared in recent years. Here's a graph...

Wisconsin readers of this blog probably almost all know about the new budget cuts the University of Wisconsin System is suddenly facing. Aft...