Walker uses budget to cut 100 year old DNR magazine in climate science scrub

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DNR magazine cut seen as latest climate science scrub

Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to do away with the subscriber-supported Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine fits a pattern that included suppressing articles on climate science and endangered species that started after Republicans took over state government, the magazine’s former editor said Monday.

Meanwhile, two former Department of Natural Resources secretaries said eliminating the magazine would undermine volunteer conservation groups and public understanding of DNR programs in ways that will harm the environment over time.

The bimonthly magazine would be shuttered as part of Walker’s 2017-19 state budget plan. One reason the proposal is drawing criticism is that it wouldn’t save any tax dollars. The nearly 100-year-old publication is supported entirely by its 88,000 subscribers...

...After Walker took office in 2011, his appointees and other top managers at the DNR insisted on seeing every article before publication, said Natasha Kassulke, who left the DNR last summer after 15 years, including five editing the magazine.

Link to article in the Wisconsin State Journal

This is disturbing, to say the least. Where does this censorship and scrubbing of information and knowledge by the right wing extremists stop. Will Walker bar local governments from funding libraries? Remove books from school shelves? Take over the science curriculum in K-12 and higher ed? It seems like anything is possible with these radicals in total control of Wisconsin.

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1. This could be my fault.

I came on the scene in Eau Claire 60-odd years ago, and things started to go downhill. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.