Overwhelmingly, white suburban areas of Milwaukee sort of draw a line in saying no to a rail system, the opposition has been couched in coded language, but I think behind that coding is, 'We don't want people who don't look like us getting on the rail and coming out into our suburban areas.'.

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With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

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In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

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We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

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The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.

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It’s no surprise that gun manufacturers are coming up with ways to try to get around reasonable restrictions.

It tells me that obviously there is a sense on the part of the black middle class and the black affluent that suburban neighborhoods are not welcoming environments or, even at that income level, they're not able to get the mortgage loans they would need to move into those neighborhoods.

Essentially we've been surfing on the national recovery, the idea was that Wisconsin policies are better than the national policies and we were going to move ahead of the national rate. That clearly hasn't happened.