Joel Rogers
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"Joel Rogers" is an American academic and political activist. Currently a professor of law, political science, Public administration/public affairs and sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he also directs the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and its projects, including the Center for State Innovation, Mayors Innovation Project, and State Smart Transportation Initiative. Rogers is a contributing editor of The Nation.

Rogers has written widely on American politics and public policy, political theory, labor relations, and economic development and has helped found and run many progressive organizations. In 1997, in Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 against his attempt to declare state prohibitions on "fusion" or "plural nomination"—in which a candidate may be nominated by more than one party—unconstitutional. A MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellow, he has been identified by Newsweek as one of 100 Americans most likely to affect U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century. An article in Utne Reader identifies him as a Radical center (politics)/radical centrist thinker and activist.

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(Teams) all prepare better for better pitching now. Your pitcher has to be able to do other things now. You just can't throw it by people.

That would have been out of here with or without a fence. She drove that.

Wisconsin has historically done great things because we felt we were all in it together. But our economic growth is becoming more and more concentrated on our wealthiest families. Wisconsin's legacy of equality is in serious trouble when we lose this feeling.

It was a big day for her, and I was real happy for her. She moved the ball around and she just threw a real good game. There wasn't a ball hit out of the infield.