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Criminal justice as practiced in our country has created a waste of human potential that has negatively impacted communities of color disproportionately and is difficult to recover. Until we as a nation and as a community recognize, address and reverse this disparity, the outcomes will continue to emphasize the “criminal” and block any possibility of “justice” for any of us.
Early research on gun buybacks, mostly from the 1990s, largely finds these programs ineffective at curbing gun violence, according to the Journalist’s Resource.
Reducing Milwaukeeans’ suffering from crime starts young, and research suggests a means.
Why are Grothman, Johnson, Michels defending Trump’s illegal hoarding of top secret files?
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson suggested on August 2 that Social Security should be stripped of its mandatory spending status, a move that would subject this essential program to yearly political wrangling and jeopardize the benefits on which over a million people in the Badger State rely.
Weakness led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
Evers is Wisconsin’s best advocate for restoring our constitutional right to an abortion and expanding our reproductive health freedoms.
Fascism is no longer creeping in America, it is on the march. Enemies of civil society are not content desecrating democracy; they aim to demolish it.
Urban Anthology Inc. has become a go-to organization for Milwaukee ethnic history.
The state of Wisconsin closes the book on the eviction of my mother.
FPC Live is angling to land a sweetheart deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would allow the Madison-based mega concert promoter to build two concert venues on prime real estate in downtown Milwaukee’s bustling Deer District.
What happens there in November will offer a preview of the political brawls to come.
I wish I could imagine a scenario under which defeated Congresswoman Liz Cheney might lead a movement that defeats both Donald Trump and Trumpism. But I think that’s unlikely and, worse, there’s a scenario where she helps him win again.
As she positions for a presidential bid, the defeated representative imagines herself as Lincolnesque. That’s absurd.
To the Cheneys, everlasting peace can be achieved only through everlasting war.
With all the celebrating over the Inflation Reduction Act, the plight of poor families was left to fester, continuing the country’s historic record of inequality and, sadly, threatening the well-being of millions of American children.
The so-called Inflation Reduction Act signed into law Tuesday by Spender-in-Chief Joe Biden won’t reduce inflation, but it will reduce manufacturing jobs, according to the state’s largest chamber of commerce and manufacturers’ association.
The Madison school district needs to increase teacher pay.
So-called Gableman investigation deserved to die for cause, not for politics.
Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.
Criminal justice as practiced in our country has created a waste of human potential that has negatively impacted communities of color disproportionately and is difficult to recover. Until we as a nation and as a community recognize, address and reverse this disparity, the outcomes will continue to emphasize the “criminal” and block any possibility of “justice” for any of us.
Early research on gun buybacks, mostly from the 1990s, largely finds these programs ineffective at curbing gun violence, according to the Journalist’s Resource.
Reducing Milwaukeeans’ suffering from crime starts young, and research suggests a means.
Why are Grothman, Johnson, Michels defending Trump’s illegal hoarding of top secret files?
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson suggested on August 2 that Social Security should be stripped of its mandatory spending status, a move that would subject this essential program to yearly political wrangling and jeopardize the benefits on which over a million people in the Badger State rely.
Weakness led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members.
Evers is Wisconsin’s best advocate for restoring our constitutional right to an abortion and expanding our reproductive health freedoms.
Fascism is no longer creeping in America, it is on the march. Enemies of civil society are not content desecrating democracy; they aim to demolish it.
Urban Anthology Inc. has become a go-to organization for Milwaukee ethnic history.
The state of Wisconsin closes the book on the eviction of my mother.
FPC Live is angling to land a sweetheart deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would allow the Madison-based mega concert promoter to build two concert venues on prime real estate in downtown Milwaukee’s bustling Deer District.
What happens there in November will offer a preview of the political brawls to come.
I wish I could imagine a scenario under which defeated Congresswoman Liz Cheney might lead a movement that defeats both Donald Trump and Trumpism. But I think that’s unlikely and, worse, there’s a scenario where she helps him win again.
As she positions for a presidential bid, the defeated representative imagines herself as Lincolnesque. That’s absurd.
To the Cheneys, everlasting peace can be achieved only through everlasting war.
With all the celebrating over the Inflation Reduction Act, the plight of poor families was left to fester, continuing the country’s historic record of inequality and, sadly, threatening the well-being of millions of American children.
The so-called Inflation Reduction Act signed into law Tuesday by Spender-in-Chief Joe Biden won’t reduce inflation, but it will reduce manufacturing jobs, according to the state’s largest chamber of commerce and manufacturers’ association.
The Madison school district needs to increase teacher pay.
So-called Gableman investigation deserved to die for cause, not for politics.
Students in Milwaukee’s public high schools who want a better life and know that school is their only way up are being battered, assaulted and exposed to gunfire or other reckless conduct on a daily basis.