It has been forty-two years since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a report on five previously healthy young gay men diagnosed with KS/OI. This was the first recognized sign of what would become known as the AIDS epidemic.

Last week, an Appeals Court unanimously ruled that construction of a luxury golf course that would decimate an environmentally rich area along Lake Michigan and cause great damage to a popular state park cannot proceed.

AI can digest all the writing about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and spit out a legitimate-sounding report. It can’t tell you, though, about a local woman who founded a charity that has distributed more than 625,000 hats and blankets to cancer patients, VA hospitals and neonatal intensive care units.

A plan to build back better.

With reporters and journalists coming under more partisan attacks and a dearth of examples where both parties can find agreement on issues of the day, comes Wisconsin Assembly Bill 551 which protects budding journalists, a measure that has united some disparate voices in the statehouse.

The Board of Regents quashed a compromise on DEI by a 9 to 8 vote–once again jeopardizing construction of a new engineering building and putting on hold pay raises for 35,000 systemwide employees.

Fair maps would spur state legislative action on nonpartisan issues such as Medicaid expansion and more state support for the UW System.

While other states have taken action against the fake Electoral College electors who tried to claim that Donald Trump won their states even though he lost in 2020, the 10 fakers from Wisconsin apparently won’t face any penalties other than sprouting a few red faces.

Ten GOP election deniers have been banned from serving as electors if Trump is on the 2024 ballot. But one of them is still on the statewide election commission.

Comparing Wisconsin to our neighboring state Minnesota, we can see how massive a hit our workers took on inflation-adjusted median household incomes.

Even when legislation is passed to address systemic racism, those intent on maintaining discrimination move the goal post. They look high and low for the loophole and intentionally misinterpret the law.

This war shows no sign of ending any time soon, and no sign that Ukraine can win, without a massive infusion of people, material, and cash from someone like us. There is no political will in America to spend American blood on this war.

Authoritarian socialists don’t see the irony in the positions they stake out.

Wisconsin Republicans have proposed legislation to help DACA recipients and expand EV charging stations, and the Senate majority leader has called for an end to the blockade on UW pay.

The unions’ lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s “Act 10” 2011 labor reforms isn’t primarily about money.

The solutions to ending nutrition insecurity start with community voice and are achieved with adaptive partners willing to innovate together.

Out-of-state investors now own 7,170 single family homes, condos, duplexes or triplexes across Milwaukee, an increase from 5,250 in late 2018 as reported in 2022.

We are far from freeing our communities from lead-in-water poisoning, especially after reviewing the devilish details worthy of our collective attention.

Poll reviews sour mood, but data paints a different picture.