
Don Vruwink: Remembering those who gave all
On Memorial Day and every day, let’s thank those who continue to serve our country, and remember those who gave all.
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On Memorial Day and every day, let’s thank those who continue to serve our country, and remember those who gave all.

If it wasn’t clear enough already, the mass shooting in downtown Milwaukee’s entertainment district last Friday night should remove any doubt that the biggest contributor to skyrocketing crime rates continues to be the one that should be the easiest to fix: the irresponsible issuing of signature bond or low bail.

Failed D.A. John Chisholm and Mayor Cavalier Johnson have no plans to protect innocent life.

With your support, the Findley Foundation was able to be at the forefront of our community’s pandemic response and played a pivotal role in ensuring our patients continued to be well-served and our staff remained safe.

I don’t know what the influences are on a woman’s full range of spirituality and thinking, but I believe I do not have the right to force a woman to go against her conscience. Abortion may not be the choice I think I’d make, but her decision is not mine to usurp.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been packed with right-wingers in contradiction of constitutional norms, majority opinion and any regard for honest and fair play.

Supporting Families Together Association, which has administered the state’s YoungStar program for more than a decade, filed the protest letter after DCF last month signaled its plans to award the contract to New York-based Shine Early Learning.

The Regents saw something in Mnookin that they thought was right for the Madison campus. Let’s give her a chance to demonstrate what it is.

Residents of Milwaukee cannot hide from our responsibilities.

Law Forward filed a lawsuit against the 10 false electors and two attorneys who engaged in a bogus scheme to overturn our votes in the Electoral College.

Why did so many in the state pass while the West Allis referendum failed?

One of the scariest economic threats facing the country, the state, companies and households is the out-of-control annual rise in health care costs, and the mergers have proven only to increase costs.

Wisconsin Republicans are preparing for their political convention this weekend by putting out statements seeking to one-up each other in a game of Who’s the Toughest in response to the shootings last Friday night outside the Bucks stadium in Milwaukee.

How mainstream racial discourse nurtures White domestic terrorists.

The lax rules we have now — supposedly aimed at making us all safer — aren’t working at all.

He pushed the great replacement theory that influenced the racist mass shooter in Buffalo. Johnson spokeswoman says senator condemns the shooting and that he doesn’t support replacement theory.

He knows the subject and the new chancellor!

Jennifer Mnookin is a California liberal with a concerning record of passionate support for leftist ideology like critical race theory. And she’s about to rake in three-quarters of a million dollars a year in a taxpayer-subsidized salary.

Two former employees of Menomonee Falls’ Benjamin Franklin Elementary are coming forward with shocking stories of physical and even sexual assault committed by shockingly young children.

The investments we’re making now will ensure everyone in rural Wisconsin has the opportunity to succeed, and that they can find that opportunity right at home—today and for generations to come.

On Memorial Day and every day, let’s thank those who continue to serve our country, and remember those who gave all.

If it wasn’t clear enough already, the mass shooting in downtown Milwaukee’s entertainment district last Friday night should remove any doubt that the biggest contributor to skyrocketing crime rates continues to be the one that should be the easiest to fix: the irresponsible issuing of signature bond or low bail.

Failed D.A. John Chisholm and Mayor Cavalier Johnson have no plans to protect innocent life.

With your support, the Findley Foundation was able to be at the forefront of our community’s pandemic response and played a pivotal role in ensuring our patients continued to be well-served and our staff remained safe.

I don’t know what the influences are on a woman’s full range of spirituality and thinking, but I believe I do not have the right to force a woman to go against her conscience. Abortion may not be the choice I think I’d make, but her decision is not mine to usurp.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been packed with right-wingers in contradiction of constitutional norms, majority opinion and any regard for honest and fair play.

Supporting Families Together Association, which has administered the state’s YoungStar program for more than a decade, filed the protest letter after DCF last month signaled its plans to award the contract to New York-based Shine Early Learning.

The Regents saw something in Mnookin that they thought was right for the Madison campus. Let’s give her a chance to demonstrate what it is.

Residents of Milwaukee cannot hide from our responsibilities.

Law Forward filed a lawsuit against the 10 false electors and two attorneys who engaged in a bogus scheme to overturn our votes in the Electoral College.

Why did so many in the state pass while the West Allis referendum failed?

One of the scariest economic threats facing the country, the state, companies and households is the out-of-control annual rise in health care costs, and the mergers have proven only to increase costs.

Wisconsin Republicans are preparing for their political convention this weekend by putting out statements seeking to one-up each other in a game of Who’s the Toughest in response to the shootings last Friday night outside the Bucks stadium in Milwaukee.

How mainstream racial discourse nurtures White domestic terrorists.

The lax rules we have now — supposedly aimed at making us all safer — aren’t working at all.

He pushed the great replacement theory that influenced the racist mass shooter in Buffalo. Johnson spokeswoman says senator condemns the shooting and that he doesn’t support replacement theory.

He knows the subject and the new chancellor!

Jennifer Mnookin is a California liberal with a concerning record of passionate support for leftist ideology like critical race theory. And she’s about to rake in three-quarters of a million dollars a year in a taxpayer-subsidized salary.

Two former employees of Menomonee Falls’ Benjamin Franklin Elementary are coming forward with shocking stories of physical and even sexual assault committed by shockingly young children.

The investments we’re making now will ensure everyone in rural Wisconsin has the opportunity to succeed, and that they can find that opportunity right at home—today and for generations to come.