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Republicans who control Wisconsin’s Legislature recently seized control of how the UW System continues to respond to the vagaries of our current pandemic crisis. I truly wonder if they know what they have gotten themselves into.
The Delta variant isn’t nearly as terrifying as the media has made it out to be. In fact, the data suggests that it is far less deadly than the original Wuhan strain of the virus.
We are seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases that is sending a panic through local and state health departments.
While the Biden administration flouts the Supreme Court’s decision ending the national moratorium on evictions, life isn’t getting any easier for millions of rental property owners — many of them small business owners.
Wisconsin’s history shows that members of Congress are united beyond party affiliation by the desire to get reelected. They draw maps that solidify incumbency and past Wisconsin Legislatures and governors rubber stamp the congressional maps.
Nobody is going to want to get off the train a mile or two from the Square and then board a bus to their heart’s desire. Take the train to Chicago and you arrive in the heart of it all. That’s the way it has to be.
Thoreau’s reflection on wild apples drew on many sources of inspiration — including, it can reasonably be suggested, Wisconsin.
Americans must demand transparency from their local officials and ask tough questions about the data they are relying on to back up their public policy choices.
Capitol sources say they are hearing from a growing number of constituents concerned about what could happen to their businesses, their jobs, their liberties in these “delta variant” days.
In absence of government leadership – President Biden and Gov. Evers have tried the soft sell to little avail – big business needs to enter the breach to save the country from another wave of COVID and another recession.
The pandemic put a spotlight on the disparities inherent in our for-profit health care system. There’s no good reason why the richest country on Earth should put a price on people’s health.
17% hike nationally in LGBTQ elected officials in last year, but still a long way to go.
Milwaukee teachers union tries to kill competition … The union representing MPS teachers, successfully blocked a vote by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to approve Milwaukee Excellence’s five-year lease of an MPS building needed to accommodate the school’s growth.
While lawmakers will be busy crisscrossing their districts this month — including visits to farms, hopefully — a number of dairy-related items will be waiting for their return to Washington.
There don’t appear to be any standards left, and if there are, few voters seem to care about them.
Both sides—Republican legislators and the Peoples Maps Commission created by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers—could have their own maps drawn for an October or November showdown in the Capitol.
A liberal Dane County judge’s power push to force a former Public Service Commission member to turn over his cellphone and other records to environmental groups has been stopped — at least for now.
It’s scary to be a Republican these days.
Without an elder statesman of the Republican Party at this juncture, however, given Scott Walker was defeated and Paul Ryan retired, means Wisconsin’s GOP would be in a bind should Johnson see the election writing on the wall and depart, too.
Those that want us to forget the past and ignore the present injustices have weaponized terms like “Black Lives Matter,” “Defunding the Police,” and now “Critical Race Theory,” because they have no real tools to prove systemic racism is not real.
Republicans who control Wisconsin’s Legislature recently seized control of how the UW System continues to respond to the vagaries of our current pandemic crisis. I truly wonder if they know what they have gotten themselves into.
The Delta variant isn’t nearly as terrifying as the media has made it out to be. In fact, the data suggests that it is far less deadly than the original Wuhan strain of the virus.
We are seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases that is sending a panic through local and state health departments.
While the Biden administration flouts the Supreme Court’s decision ending the national moratorium on evictions, life isn’t getting any easier for millions of rental property owners — many of them small business owners.
Wisconsin’s history shows that members of Congress are united beyond party affiliation by the desire to get reelected. They draw maps that solidify incumbency and past Wisconsin Legislatures and governors rubber stamp the congressional maps.
Nobody is going to want to get off the train a mile or two from the Square and then board a bus to their heart’s desire. Take the train to Chicago and you arrive in the heart of it all. That’s the way it has to be.
Thoreau’s reflection on wild apples drew on many sources of inspiration — including, it can reasonably be suggested, Wisconsin.
Americans must demand transparency from their local officials and ask tough questions about the data they are relying on to back up their public policy choices.
Capitol sources say they are hearing from a growing number of constituents concerned about what could happen to their businesses, their jobs, their liberties in these “delta variant” days.
In absence of government leadership – President Biden and Gov. Evers have tried the soft sell to little avail – big business needs to enter the breach to save the country from another wave of COVID and another recession.
The pandemic put a spotlight on the disparities inherent in our for-profit health care system. There’s no good reason why the richest country on Earth should put a price on people’s health.
17% hike nationally in LGBTQ elected officials in last year, but still a long way to go.
Milwaukee teachers union tries to kill competition … The union representing MPS teachers, successfully blocked a vote by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to approve Milwaukee Excellence’s five-year lease of an MPS building needed to accommodate the school’s growth.
While lawmakers will be busy crisscrossing their districts this month — including visits to farms, hopefully — a number of dairy-related items will be waiting for their return to Washington.
There don’t appear to be any standards left, and if there are, few voters seem to care about them.
Both sides—Republican legislators and the Peoples Maps Commission created by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers—could have their own maps drawn for an October or November showdown in the Capitol.
A liberal Dane County judge’s power push to force a former Public Service Commission member to turn over his cellphone and other records to environmental groups has been stopped — at least for now.
It’s scary to be a Republican these days.
Without an elder statesman of the Republican Party at this juncture, however, given Scott Walker was defeated and Paul Ryan retired, means Wisconsin’s GOP would be in a bind should Johnson see the election writing on the wall and depart, too.
Those that want us to forget the past and ignore the present injustices have weaponized terms like “Black Lives Matter,” “Defunding the Police,” and now “Critical Race Theory,” because they have no real tools to prove systemic racism is not real.
