Dave Zweifel, lifelong journalist and editor emeritus of the Madison Capital Times, urges his "Plain Talk" column readers to subscribe to the Department of Natural Resources' popular magazine
which the Walker administration wants to wipe out - - ike it did with climate change information scrubbed from agency web pages - - even though the magazine is completely supported by its 88,000 subscribers.
The column headline nails it:
One or two year subs are only slightly more per year; all are less than $9 annually.
Here is a link to an online subscription form.
Walker's goal is completely ideological, regardless of whatever story line the administration puts out about bureaucracy and efficiency.
The magazine has reported on the impact of climate change on Wisconsin's environment, and that eyes-wide-open approach to public information probably put it in Walker's budgetary cross hairs.
Remember the administration's ham-handed, failed schemes to get the public mission role of the UW system deleted from the Wisconsin Idea?
Remember its slippery plan to make the Open Records law essentially useless?
Government by deletion is anti-democratic and only serves special interests.
Thanks to the Cap Times for Zweifel's public service column.
which the Walker administration wants to wipe out - - ike it did with climate change information scrubbed from agency web pages - - even though the magazine is completely supported by its 88,000 subscribers.
The column headline nails it:
Send a message to Scott Walker by subscribing to threatened DNR magazineI wrote about the threat to the people's 99-year-old magazine last week on my blog and signed up for a three-year subscription for only $21.97.
One or two year subs are only slightly more per year; all are less than $9 annually.
Here is a link to an online subscription form.
Walker's goal is completely ideological, regardless of whatever story line the administration puts out about bureaucracy and efficiency.
The magazine has reported on the impact of climate change on Wisconsin's environment, and that eyes-wide-open approach to public information probably put it in Walker's budgetary cross hairs.
Remember the administration's ham-handed, failed schemes to get the public mission role of the UW system deleted from the Wisconsin Idea?
Remember its slippery plan to make the Open Records law essentially useless?
Government by deletion is anti-democratic and only serves special interests.
Thanks to the Cap Times for Zweifel's public service column.