Letters from members in the news

Rick Bogle: Billions for medical research aren't worth it (Wisconsin State Journal)

A recent letter to the editor argued that the billions of taxpayer dollars doled out to medical researchers by the National Institutes of Health is something everyone should support because it creates jobs. Unfortunately, that’s about all the good the money actually does. And if we are going to spend billions of tax dollars to create jobs, I’d like to see them be jobs that actually benefit society.
Eve Galanter: Turn words into action for equality (Wisconsin State Journal Guest Column)

Wisconsin claims the honorable title of being the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. This was not a battle easily won; in fact, the fight for women's suffrage spanned the better part of a century. Women's rights organizations began forming in Wisconsin in the early 1860s, but received little support from the general public