A new American Experience will air on PBS Wisconsin tonight (Jan 28) at 8 PM. The new episode, The Poison Squad, is based on the book by Debora Blum which tells the story of government scientist Dr. Harvey Wiley. In a period where food and drugs could contain almost anything, Dr. Wiley was responsible for research that eventually pushed Congress to pass laws to protect consumers. He was most famous for feeding food preservatives and additives to students who had volunteered to test the chemicals, proving that they were harmful.
I recently read the book, and if the American Experience adaptation is as good as we have come to expect, this should be a must-watch story. If you cannot watch it at 8, it is also available for live streaming if you are a PBS Passport subscriber. A preview is available at the PBS Site.
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527 contributions: Wisconsin donors gave secretive 527 groups more than $1.5 million in 2009, a record for a non-election year. The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign also finds that Dem 527s pulled in about two-thirds of the overall money given to the organizations, continuing a trend that began in 2006.-- WisPolitics report.
Even the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) didn't call 527s "secretive," though. Maybe that's because 527s are required to report all of their contributions, which is where the WDC report came from.
Steve is a member of LION Publishers , the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce, the Online News Association, and the Local Media Consortium, and is active in Health Dunn Right.
He has been a computer guy most of his life but has published a political blog, a discussion website, and now Eye On Dunn County.
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