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Bill Kaplan: Biden promises help for all Americans

Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.

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Steven Walters: Pandemic worsens broadband access gap

New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.

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Dave Zweifel: Citizen soldiers safeguard transition of power

As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.

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Bill Kaplan: Biden promises help for all Americans

Biden has issued public health executive orders: Mask wearing on federal property and interstate travel, using the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPE and vaccine, more testing, steps to assure health equity, guidelines on reopening schools and research on treatments.

Read More »

Steven Walters: Pandemic worsens broadband access gap

New reports documenting how COVID-19 widened the gap between Wisconsin’s broadband “haves” and “have-nots” show why Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proclaimed 2021 the Year of Broadband Access and promised to include about $200 million in his budget to close that gap.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Citizen soldiers safeguard transition of power

As I was watching Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and seeing all those members of the National Guard — 25,000 in all — keeping watch at the U.S. Capitol, I couldn’t help but think back to the 1960s when I was a young unit commander in the Wisconsin Army Guard during another time of American turmoil.

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