Lena Taylor: $170 really did go a long way

Taylor writes about how the Choctaw people collected $170, the equivalent of $6,000 in today’s dollars, and sent it to Ireland during the Great Potato Famine. Now, the people of Ireland have helped raise nearly $3 million dollars to help out the Navajo and Hopi tribes as they deal with COVID-19.

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Lena Taylor: $170 really did go a long way

Taylor writes about how the Choctaw people collected $170, the equivalent of $6,000 in today’s dollars, and sent it to Ireland during the Great Potato Famine. Now, the people of Ireland have helped raise nearly $3 million dollars to help out the Navajo and Hopi tribes as they deal with COVID-19.

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Marquette Poll shows presidential race remains tight in Wisconsin

The presidential race continued to be tight with 46 percent of voters backing presumptive Dem nominee Joe Biden and 43 percent supporting President Trump in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. That’s largely unchanged from 48-45 in late March. Poll Director Charles Franklin said there’s also been a significant

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Biden ad accuses Trump of downplaying COVID-19 threat

Dem Joe Biden’s campaign says it’s running a new digital ad in Wisconsin accusing President Trump of downplaying the threat of COVID-19 as the disease began to spread across the country. The ad will run statewide on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube in Wisconsin. The ad is also running in Arizona,

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7th CD clerks say election running smoothly, in-person turnout mixed

City clerks in northern Wisconsin’s sprawling 7th CD say today’s special election so far is running smoothly.  State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, faces Dem opponent and Wausau School Board President Tricia Zunker in today’s election. Some clerks in the sampling of municipalities WisPolitics.com spoke with reported low in-person turnout, while

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