UP: Cheesemakers. A call to end California's policy of setting milk prices for its cheesemakers much lower than the rest of the country pays would be a boon to Wisconsin cheesemakers, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. California requires its farmers to sell milk to cheesemakers for less than they charge others, and dairy farmers would like to end the practice.
DOWN: School vouchers. Two key Republicans, Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah) and Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon), say they'll oppose any expansion of the controversial voucher program, unless local residents approve it in a referendum. Ellis tells the Associated Press: "We will have democracy at its purest. The people will decide." How many times did he practice that quote in the mirror?
