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Lena Taylor: If it walks like a duck, then

In all the discussions about systemic racism and implicit bias, since the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha police officer, many have denied that there is a problem. Yet, conversations with Black community leaders and residents yield a very different determination.

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Steven Walters: Will any policing reforms become law?

There are so many proposed policing reforms swirling in the Capitol—with even more expected from an Assembly task force whose members haven’t been announced—that it’s fair to ask whether any of them will become law when the new Legislature convenes next year.

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Dave Zweifel: Trump threatens our planet’s future

The Trump administration has frequently targeted regulations governing the production and use of fossil fuels, a prime contributor to global warming and consequential climate change. Trump himself keeps insisting that coal and oil jobs have to be saved, referring to climate change as a hoax.

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Lena Taylor: If it walks like a duck, then

In all the discussions about systemic racism and implicit bias, since the shooting of Jacob Blake by a Kenosha police officer, many have denied that there is a problem. Yet, conversations with Black community leaders and residents yield a very different determination.

Read More »

Steven Walters: Will any policing reforms become law?

There are so many proposed policing reforms swirling in the Capitol—with even more expected from an Assembly task force whose members haven’t been announced—that it’s fair to ask whether any of them will become law when the new Legislature convenes next year.

Read More »

Dave Zweifel: Trump threatens our planet’s future

The Trump administration has frequently targeted regulations governing the production and use of fossil fuels, a prime contributor to global warming and consequential climate change. Trump himself keeps insisting that coal and oil jobs have to be saved, referring to climate change as a hoax.

Read More »

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