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The benefits of digesting manure and food-processing waste include bigger harvests with less synthetic fertilizer, less odor, safer groundwater, fewer new landfills and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Seeing these improvements take shape has given me a sense of pride, but also a time to reflect on the people around the world who don’t have the same access to these resources as I do.
In our nation, there have always been those on the left and right who will say the most absurd or deranged statements. One can find those examples with ease from the daily newspaper or online. But those are far different from the sustained and repetitive lies about ‘stolen elections’ or how Brown people are “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood of our country,” which falls on the ears of the easily led and the ignorant part of the nation who then feel a license to say and do things are that dangerous to the whole of society.
The crazy idiotic culture of guns in our nation plays out every day with mass shootings. Today was different only that a soon-to-be presidential nominee was a target. But let us not forget that over the July 4th weekend in Chicago over 17 people were killed in gun violence. Today is no different as we live in a gun-soaked society.
The delegates gathering in Milwaukee this week are awfully different than the band of abolitionists who founded the Republican Party in this Wisconsin town 170 years ago.
It’s no time to negotiate with protesters who are vowing to breach the security perimeter in order to get closer to Trump and RNC delegates in Milwaukee.
Your presidential and congressional votes in November will determine if America remains the greatest nation in the world or joins Russia, China, Iran and North Korea where citizens live in the darkness of dictatorships.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention as national politics focuses on the Badger State. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Wisconsin is far away from the Beltway with its gossip and drama. A lot of voters here are willing to wait and give Biden a chance. But as risky as it seems to many Democrats to change candidates at this late date, there is also a genuine risk in running a weak and compromised incumbent.
Regardless of what you think of Joe Biden’s mental acuity in 2024, he seemed to have a pretty good grip on reality back in 2020. And whom did he pick then out of 150 million possible Democrats as best qualified to take over if he wasn’t up to the job? Kamala Harris! He should make the same decision today.
The last thing Republicans should want is for Biden to step down.
“Liberty at Stake” tells the story of Joshua Glover and the connection to the groundbreaking gathering of Republicans in Ripon, Wisconsin.
The bottom line is that the election this November is likely to have a tremendous impact on whether we will successfully deal with what may well be the greatest challenge we’ve ever faced.
Will civility be on display at the RNC? Even if its not, we all have a role to play in its revival.
Two years ago, the court ruled that state law does not authorize election clerks to receive absentee ballots through a drop box—they may only receive ballots in the municipal office or via the mail. Now, the court has reversed course and overruled its previous decision, not for any legal reason, but solely because the makeup of the Court has changed to a liberal majority.
Wisconsin has a video gaming base that could grow into a secondary hub. Ample technical and artistic talent is here or willing to return; a carefully constructed tax credit could light up the screen.
Electricity demand is growing; citizen demands should, too.
The passenger rail skeptics weren’t saying much this week when Amtrak announced ridership numbers from the first month of its new state-sponsored train service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Huge declines in the percent of earned income are a very worrisome sign.
Hosting the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee will have a host of negative impacts on our Black communities. First, the city will center its attention on the RNC and its agenda which seeks to disempower, silence, and harm us. Second, increased police presence and surveillance from the event will impact Black communities the most.
The benefits of digesting manure and food-processing waste include bigger harvests with less synthetic fertilizer, less odor, safer groundwater, fewer new landfills and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Seeing these improvements take shape has given me a sense of pride, but also a time to reflect on the people around the world who don’t have the same access to these resources as I do.
In our nation, there have always been those on the left and right who will say the most absurd or deranged statements. One can find those examples with ease from the daily newspaper or online. But those are far different from the sustained and repetitive lies about ‘stolen elections’ or how Brown people are “vermin” who are “poisoning the blood of our country,” which falls on the ears of the easily led and the ignorant part of the nation who then feel a license to say and do things are that dangerous to the whole of society.
The crazy idiotic culture of guns in our nation plays out every day with mass shootings. Today was different only that a soon-to-be presidential nominee was a target. But let us not forget that over the July 4th weekend in Chicago over 17 people were killed in gun violence. Today is no different as we live in a gun-soaked society.
The delegates gathering in Milwaukee this week are awfully different than the band of abolitionists who founded the Republican Party in this Wisconsin town 170 years ago.
It’s no time to negotiate with protesters who are vowing to breach the security perimeter in order to get closer to Trump and RNC delegates in Milwaukee.
Your presidential and congressional votes in November will determine if America remains the greatest nation in the world or joins Russia, China, Iran and North Korea where citizens live in the darkness of dictatorships.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, look at Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention as national politics focuses on the Badger State. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Wisconsin is far away from the Beltway with its gossip and drama. A lot of voters here are willing to wait and give Biden a chance. But as risky as it seems to many Democrats to change candidates at this late date, there is also a genuine risk in running a weak and compromised incumbent.
Regardless of what you think of Joe Biden’s mental acuity in 2024, he seemed to have a pretty good grip on reality back in 2020. And whom did he pick then out of 150 million possible Democrats as best qualified to take over if he wasn’t up to the job? Kamala Harris! He should make the same decision today.
The last thing Republicans should want is for Biden to step down.
“Liberty at Stake” tells the story of Joshua Glover and the connection to the groundbreaking gathering of Republicans in Ripon, Wisconsin.
The bottom line is that the election this November is likely to have a tremendous impact on whether we will successfully deal with what may well be the greatest challenge we’ve ever faced.
Will civility be on display at the RNC? Even if its not, we all have a role to play in its revival.
Two years ago, the court ruled that state law does not authorize election clerks to receive absentee ballots through a drop box—they may only receive ballots in the municipal office or via the mail. Now, the court has reversed course and overruled its previous decision, not for any legal reason, but solely because the makeup of the Court has changed to a liberal majority.
Wisconsin has a video gaming base that could grow into a secondary hub. Ample technical and artistic talent is here or willing to return; a carefully constructed tax credit could light up the screen.
Electricity demand is growing; citizen demands should, too.
The passenger rail skeptics weren’t saying much this week when Amtrak announced ridership numbers from the first month of its new state-sponsored train service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Huge declines in the percent of earned income are a very worrisome sign.
Hosting the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee will have a host of negative impacts on our Black communities. First, the city will center its attention on the RNC and its agenda which seeks to disempower, silence, and harm us. Second, increased police presence and surveillance from the event will impact Black communities the most.
