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Joanne Boyer is founder and editor of Wisdom Voices Press and www.WisdomVoices.com. Her first book is "Wisdom of Progressive Voices." Joanne has worked in professional communications for more than 30 years. Her career includes being the first woman sports writer for several daily newspapers in the 1970s. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she resides in Minneapolis with her husband, also an author.

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Single Payer -- Not what the for-profit insurance companies want, From ImagesAttr
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 22, 2016
No One Said It Was Going To Be Easy What would JFK say to those who whine "oh, we'll never get anything done if Bernie Sanders is elected?" Bernie Sanders is calling out the fight in us to remember who we are as a country.
A new way of thinking is needed in 2016, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 8, 2015
We Didn't Run Out of Stones We didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones. We found a "better way" to do things. Now, more than ever, we need to find a way out of the Stone Age of thinking on climate change, war, and the host of other issues confronting us as we head into 2016.
A 1926 anti-Catholic political cartoon tapped into Americans fear of the Pope., From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 24, 2015
100 Years Ago We Thought Very Differently About The Pope 100 years ago it would have been unthinkable for a Pope to address the U.S. Congress. Anti-Catholicism and anti-immigration fervor ran rampant. We take a quick trip back in time to illustrate how one of today's premier Catholic universities and its premier football team came of age despite this discrimination against the Catholic Church. It gives us hope that 100 years from now, the issues Pope Francis discusses today will al
Medicare Turns 50: Let's Celebrate and Expand, From ImagesAttr
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 29, 2015
After Medicare Celebrations End, Let's Push Harder for Single Payer There are many reasons to celebrate as Medicare turns 50 this week. Yet it's a time to ask why we still don't have a "Medicare For All" single payer health care delivery system in this country and how the "for profit" insurance companies continue to make it impossible for many to access health care.
Iowa State: Just one example of land grant colleges, From ImagesAttr
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 20, 2015
Forgetting Our Land Grant Colleges History: Public Higher Education Does Work We have forgotten that our Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln knew that federal and state supported public education was the lifeblood of the nation. We look back on the founding of the time-honored tradition of the land grant colleges. We ask those who think the world began with them, who do you think educated those who educated those who educated you?
The Wisconsin Idea now faces extinction, From ImagesAttr
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 30, 2015
'The Boundaries Of The University Shall Be The Boundaries Of The State': A Lesson Wisconsin and Scott Walker Forgot Once the crown jewel of public universities, the University of Wisconsin stands on the brink of ruin as Scott Walker does the bidding of the Koch Brothers to privatize public education in the Badger State.

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