East High School staff: To join Teach-Out

Following the lead of La Follette High School and other schools, a group of East staff are proud to join our colleagues in solidarity by teaching outside of East High School on the morning of Thursday, March 4, 2021 from

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TUE News Summary: Evers signs merit-based pay increase bill for state public defenders; state to receive 47K J&J vaccine doses next week

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday: WisPolitics.com virtual luncheon with Democratic legislative leaders Join WisPolitics.com for a virtual lunchtime discussion with Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley, D-Mason, and Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh. They will discuss Dem priorities in

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Lincoln Hills wouldn’t close until ‘24 under Evers budget

Today’s Midday podcast covers Gov. Tony Evers’ budget provision that doesn’t envision closing the state’s troubled youth prisons in northern Wisconsin until after a new juvenile facility in Milwaukee would be completed in early 2024. wispolitics · Lincoln Hills wouldn’t close until ‘24 under Evers budget

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Overhauling UI system won’t fix current delay, labor attorney says

Labor and employment attorney Victor Forberger argues that overhauling the UI computer system isn’t going to help the current delay in unemployed people getting their benefits. The foundation of Gov. Tony Evers’ latest special session bill was to revamp the Unemployment Insurance system. Evers had sought $5.3 million to begin

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Ending the Pandemic – The Importance of Genomic Surveillance in Identifying Variants

Presented by BioForward Wisconsin, the collective voice of Wisconsin’s robust and comprehensive biohealth cluster representing more than 220 member organizations, Illumina VP & Distinguished Scientist Dr. Gary Schroth will provide a short overview of genomic surveillance implications on vaccine efficacy. Sequencing-based surveillance helps public health officials track the path of the

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Kohler’s ‘The Shift’ speaker series: ‘On the Frontlines at Work and at Home: How the Pandemic is Disproportionately Affecting Women’

Join Kohler on International Women’s Day! Monday, March 8th • 8:30-9:30AM CST The Shift presented by Kohler is a female-focused speaker series centered on fueling women’s career trajectories. This Shift session will focus on the troubling reports of job losses among women due to ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Too often,

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Lasry campaign: Lasry takes the End Citizens United pledge

Milwaukee – Alex Lasry, candidate for the United States Senate, endorsed a sweeping set of reforms to fight corruption and get special interest money out of politics. “I am proud to take the End Citizens United Pledge as one of the first acts of my campaign,” said Alex Lasry. “By

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East High School staff: To join Teach-Out

Following the lead of La Follette High School and other schools, a group of East staff are proud to join our colleagues in solidarity by teaching outside of East High School on the morning of Thursday, March 4, 2021 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.   As with all schools

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TUE News Summary: Evers signs merit-based pay increase bill for state public defenders; state to receive 47K J&J vaccine doses next week

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Thursday: WisPolitics.com virtual luncheon with Democratic legislative leaders Join WisPolitics.com for a virtual lunchtime discussion with Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley, D-Mason, and Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh. They will discuss Dem priorities in the new session. The program is set to ru… Please

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U.S. Rep. Kind: Calls on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to address USPS delays

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Ron Kind called on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to address the recent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delays and implement operational changes to ensure on-time delivery. This comes as many Wisconsinites continue to experience increasingly long mail delays and lost mail packages.     “Communities across Wisconsin rely on the

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Dept. of Justice: AG Kaul and AGs coalition support schools’ ability to protect students from bullying

MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul and a coalition of 23 other attorneys general filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve schools’ ability to address cyberbullying and other forms of off-campus bullying that substantially affects students’ education. The coalition filed the brief in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a case concerning

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