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Birmingham’s history is fraught with tragedies and triumphs, punches and counterpunches in the fight for dignity and human rights.
As we tiptoe back to in-person events, Idea Fest — with its top-notch speakers, provocative topics and commitment to safety — is a terrific re-entry option.
Democrats tried to convince Kenoshans that Gov. Tony Evers did all he could to prevent the Jacob Blake riots from spinning out of control but the people who were literally crying and begging for help know better.
If there is any good at all in this tragedy, it’s that African Americans are finally being heard. But that’s not nearly enough.
The experience of Wisconsin’s Hmong residents, who have become targets of resentment and attacked for being different — told to “accept our ways and learn English” — is a worrying sign for the newest refugees from a U.S. military debacle.
Kindness. Acceptance. Respect. Forgiveness. Compromise. These values are arriving now to replace anger and distrust.
Soon Madison students will return to schools where smiles — one of the most important currencies in bustling halls and classrooms — will be in short supply.
My wife and I are elderly and she does not have an immune system. Consequently, her survival against the highly contagious delta variant depends on Wisconsin being vaccinated.
Republicans and Democrats alike deserve credit for warming the early stage investment climate over time, taking actions that have helped to “de-risk” many private deals that otherwise may not have been funded. If a separate bill this fall revives the fund-of-funds idea, they could do so again.
Prehn said that Kaul’s suit to force Prehn from the natural Resources Board was all just “politics” and that Kaul was only acting so that Evers could push his own natural resource agenda. Right. Yes. Exactly. This is how it works.
253 municipalities in state cut police funding in 2019 for budget reasons, report finds.
It is confounding that the Republican Party is going contrary to the large majority on this all-important issue.
Only a hard-core minority oppose it. So why are GOP politicians encouraging this, and risking our health?
The western Wisconsin military installation is planning to house the refugees in its barracks before being resettled in Wisconsin communities and elsewhere.
Another such victory and we are undone.
The hope, of course, is to make it difficult for all but white Americans to have easy access to voting.
Rather than surrender to the inevitability of a Taliban victory that Biden swore wouldn’t happen, he could have kept a status quo that at the very least avoided needless bloodshed and scenes of abject panic that will echo through history.
Biden’s decision to follow Trump’s lead in abandoning Afghanistan has led, as most observers said it would, to a humanitarian disaster with worse to come.
Biden has made it clear that more lives should not be lost or more national treasure expended. He refuses to hand this problem off to yet another person to sit in the White House. President Biden has rightly concluded this chapter.
As storms intensify and this pandemic rises anew, Olikara insists that “sustainability” begins with democracy, and a viable future depends on discovering a better politics in us.
Trust him to lead us there.
Birmingham’s history is fraught with tragedies and triumphs, punches and counterpunches in the fight for dignity and human rights.
As we tiptoe back to in-person events, Idea Fest — with its top-notch speakers, provocative topics and commitment to safety — is a terrific re-entry option.
Democrats tried to convince Kenoshans that Gov. Tony Evers did all he could to prevent the Jacob Blake riots from spinning out of control but the people who were literally crying and begging for help know better.
If there is any good at all in this tragedy, it’s that African Americans are finally being heard. But that’s not nearly enough.
The experience of Wisconsin’s Hmong residents, who have become targets of resentment and attacked for being different — told to “accept our ways and learn English” — is a worrying sign for the newest refugees from a U.S. military debacle.
Kindness. Acceptance. Respect. Forgiveness. Compromise. These values are arriving now to replace anger and distrust.
Soon Madison students will return to schools where smiles — one of the most important currencies in bustling halls and classrooms — will be in short supply.
My wife and I are elderly and she does not have an immune system. Consequently, her survival against the highly contagious delta variant depends on Wisconsin being vaccinated.
Republicans and Democrats alike deserve credit for warming the early stage investment climate over time, taking actions that have helped to “de-risk” many private deals that otherwise may not have been funded. If a separate bill this fall revives the fund-of-funds idea, they could do so again.
Prehn said that Kaul’s suit to force Prehn from the natural Resources Board was all just “politics” and that Kaul was only acting so that Evers could push his own natural resource agenda. Right. Yes. Exactly. This is how it works.
253 municipalities in state cut police funding in 2019 for budget reasons, report finds.
It is confounding that the Republican Party is going contrary to the large majority on this all-important issue.
Only a hard-core minority oppose it. So why are GOP politicians encouraging this, and risking our health?
The western Wisconsin military installation is planning to house the refugees in its barracks before being resettled in Wisconsin communities and elsewhere.
Another such victory and we are undone.
The hope, of course, is to make it difficult for all but white Americans to have easy access to voting.
Rather than surrender to the inevitability of a Taliban victory that Biden swore wouldn’t happen, he could have kept a status quo that at the very least avoided needless bloodshed and scenes of abject panic that will echo through history.
Biden’s decision to follow Trump’s lead in abandoning Afghanistan has led, as most observers said it would, to a humanitarian disaster with worse to come.
Biden has made it clear that more lives should not be lost or more national treasure expended. He refuses to hand this problem off to yet another person to sit in the White House. President Biden has rightly concluded this chapter.
As storms intensify and this pandemic rises anew, Olikara insists that “sustainability” begins with democracy, and a viable future depends on discovering a better politics in us.
Trust him to lead us there.
