Dan Shafer: Legislative inaction nears 100 days

The Republican-led Wisconsin State Legislature has now gone three full months, nearly 100 days, without passing a single bill, amid a deadly, worsening pandemic, a devastated economy, a massive unemployment crisis, a health coverage crisis, and the largest protest movement in U.S. history.

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LaKeshia Myers: Lincoln the Emancipator: The Civil War & the continuous battle against northern negrophobia

Negrophobia during this period laid the groundwork for northern segregation and Jim Crow that was to follow. It was the precursor to redlining, restrictive housing covenants, hyper-segregation of schools, race-based policing policies etc. All things that were prevalent in northern cities such as Milwaukee and Chicago; and all of which are at the crux of the Black Lives Matter movement today.

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Dan O’Donnell: The real war on police

A war is raging in America, but its most visible battle–the one being waged in the streets–isn’t its most consequential. In city halls and state capitols across the country, the real fight for America’s safety, security, and soul is being fought, and won, behind closed doors.

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THU AM Update: Shared governance groups seek to limit additional UW System budget cuts

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — UW System shared governance groups argue the state’s universities “should be a funding priority” during the COVID-19 economic crisis because of its contributions to the state economy. The Public Representation Organization of the UW-Madison Faculty Senate, Academic Staff

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Biden campaign calls Johnson’s Ukraine probe a ‘smear campaign”

The Biden campaign in a scathing memo slammed U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson over a “desperate taxpayer-funded smear campaign” by a panel led by the Oshkosh Republican. The panel is conducting a probe into the presumptive Dem nominee’s son’s involvement with a Ukrainian energy company. The memo, obtained by WisPolitics.com, comes

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Dan Shafer: Legislative inaction nears 100 days

The Republican-led Wisconsin State Legislature has now gone three full months, nearly 100 days, without passing a single bill, amid a deadly, worsening pandemic, a devastated economy, a massive unemployment crisis, a health coverage crisis, and the largest protest movement in U.S. history.

Read More »

LaKeshia Myers: Lincoln the Emancipator: The Civil War & the continuous battle against northern negrophobia

Negrophobia during this period laid the groundwork for northern segregation and Jim Crow that was to follow. It was the precursor to redlining, restrictive housing covenants, hyper-segregation of schools, race-based policing policies etc. All things that were prevalent in northern cities such as Milwaukee and Chicago; and all of which are at the crux of the Black Lives Matter movement today.

Read More »

Dan O’Donnell: The real war on police

A war is raging in America, but its most visible battle–the one being waged in the streets–isn’t its most consequential. In city halls and state capitols across the country, the real fight for America’s safety, security, and soul is being fought, and won, behind closed doors.

Read More »