Today’s Midday podcast covers the Senate Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform taking testimony on delays out-of-work Wisconsinites have faced in dealing with the unemployment system.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led a bipartisan group of Senators calling on U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson to take action and work quickly to allocate all remaining Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding from the CARES Act and publish comprehensive guidance for use of those funds, including for previously announced funding. In a letter to Secretary Carson, Baldwin and Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bob Casey (D-PA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Mazie Hirono
On Background: On April 30, Vice President Pence, leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) to more than 15,000 nursing homes across America. These shipments will provide a 14-day supply of PPE to staff working in the nursing homes. The press release from FEMA detailing the directive can be found here: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2020/05/02/coronavirus-pandemic-response-ppe-packages-nursing-homes A video explaining FEMA coordinating shipments of supplies to nursing homes across the country can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfOTLqJVvQ FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor stated the agency will send the first shipments with
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a sudden spike in cases, hospitalizations, intensive care visits, or deaths. Two weeks to the day after the Supreme Court reopened the state, Wisconsin is … perfectly fine.
The appearance of bias should make recusal mandatory whenever the impartiality of a justice or judge can be questioned.
Why Wisconsin needs an immediate election remedy.
There is no freedom of the press without the press. And the press is threatened, as never before, by the coronavirus pandemic.
Campaign donations flooding in to his opponent Joel Jacobsen.
McConnell actually has been forced to apologize for yet another lie he told about former President Barack Obama.
Contact: John Imes, 608-712-7898 jimesother@gmail.com MADISON, Wis. – Elected official, environmental nonprofit leader, and small business owner John Imes announced his support today for a comprehensive series of recommendations by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) and a collaboration of state and local organizations and thought leaders. Imes is a participant in the initiative. From reframing economic development, finance, and procurement practices, to prioritizing worker health and safety, education, climate and energy, and expanding food systems, clean water, and broadband access, the recommendations include both short and long-term solutions that state and local leaders can implement immediately, some with little or no cost. “Business as usual and politics as usual are
Wisconsin National Guard specimen collection teams collected over 4,100 specimens May 26 and its cumulative total collected for COVID-19 testing topped 72,000 as 25 teams continue to operate across Wisconsin supporting local health departments and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services with COVID-19 testing efforts. The teams, comprised of more than 600 Citizen Soldiers and Airmen in total, established mobile testing sites at locations ranging from correctional facilities and health clinics, to private businesses, and community-based testing sites.After collecting the specimens at each site, Wisconsin National Guard troops send the test kits to a lab for analysis, and individual citizens
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Some members of the UW System’s shared governance communities throughout the state expressed concern over President Ray Cross’ blueprint to specialize campuses and consolidate certain administrative functions. In a series of virtual campus listening sessions last week, Cross and regents met with student, faculty and staff representatives for all four-year campuses to answer questions on the post-COVID-19 proposal. One section of the blueprint suggests the UW System now needs to transition from a “convener/collaborator/coordinator” with campuses to a “director and manager” in order to make the necessary financial changes in time. “In effect, this listening session has the purpose of
Today’s Midday podcast covers the Senate Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform taking testimony on delays out-of-work Wisconsinites have faced in dealing with the unemployment system.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led a bipartisan group of Senators calling on U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson to take action and work quickly to allocate all remaining Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funding from the CARES Act
On Background: On April 30, Vice President Pence, leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate shipments of personal protective equipment (PPE) to more than 15,000 nursing homes across America. These shipments will provide a 14-day supply of PPE to staff
Wisconsin hasn’t seen a sudden spike in cases, hospitalizations, intensive care visits, or deaths. Two weeks to the day after the Supreme Court reopened the state, Wisconsin is … perfectly fine.
The appearance of bias should make recusal mandatory whenever the impartiality of a justice or judge can be questioned.
Why Wisconsin needs an immediate election remedy.
There is no freedom of the press without the press. And the press is threatened, as never before, by the coronavirus pandemic.
Campaign donations flooding in to his opponent Joel Jacobsen.
McConnell actually has been forced to apologize for yet another lie he told about former President Barack Obama.
Contact: John Imes, 608-712-7898 jimesother@gmail.com MADISON, Wis. – Elected official, environmental nonprofit leader, and small business owner John Imes announced his support today for a comprehensive series of recommendations by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) and a collaboration of state and local organizations and thought leaders. Imes is a participant
Wisconsin National Guard specimen collection teams collected over 4,100 specimens May 26 and its cumulative total collected for COVID-19 testing topped 72,000 as 25 teams continue to operate across Wisconsin supporting local health departments and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services with COVID-19 testing efforts. The teams, comprised of more
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Tomorrow: WisPolitics.com luncheon with Rebecca Kleefisch & Erin Forrest Join WisPolitics.com for a virtual lunchtime discussion on Thursday, May 28. The discussion on recruiting and training female candidates coincides with the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States and comes as presumptive …
Some members of the UW System’s shared governance communities throughout the state expressed concern over President Ray Cross’ blueprint to specialize campuses and consolidate certain administrative functions. In a series of virtual campus listening sessions last week, Cross and regents met with student, faculty and staff representatives for all four-year