
John Torinus: Tommy to the rescue
Wisconsin has been desperately searching for leadership to get through the COVID epidemic that has ripped up the state. Fortunately, we finally have a leader who is stepping up to confront the monumental challenge.
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Wisconsin has been desperately searching for leadership to get through the COVID epidemic that has ripped up the state. Fortunately, we finally have a leader who is stepping up to confront the monumental challenge.
Social distancing and wearing masks saves real peoples’ lives, speeds us to a better economic future, relieves the burdens on exhausted health care workers, and gives us hope for a better 2021.
The Ad Council has a plan to spend $50 million on a campaign to persuade Americans to get their shots.
Is it a harbor for white nationalists or a place that cares about racial equity?
Late great Native American writer from Wisconsin leaves a legacy of thoughtful columns.
Vaccine researchers, health care workers, grocery store employees, teachers and Dolly Parton, too — among many others — deserve our thanks.
Avoid holiday gatherings and instead, use distance technology to connect with friends and relatives. If you must leave the house, wear a mask and practice social distancing, and of course, wash your hands.
As Americans, we know that we can adapt and overcome the challenges of this unusual year. We can find ways to maintain our traditions in new, innovative ways or go back to basics of simpler times. Let us all focus on the most important things and people in our lives. We can do this.
We can be thankful that now the nation can get back to working on the challenges that face us.
Wisconsin’s senior senator has become one of America’s leading crackpots.
Milwaukee is running the exact sort of recount that it wants to: Secretive, dishonest, and ultimately designed to benefit only one candidate. In other words, it’s running the recount exactly like it ran the election.
The Burlington Area School District has experienced incidents of racism, but the small industrial city in southeast Wisconsin isn’t a racist community.
They are ‘wisdom keepers,’ who pass down our Native American culture.
Some states, in order to encourage EV charging station development, have allowed utility companies to construct and operate charging stations using fees they collect from their current electric customers.
Please follow normal procedures and allow all petitioners to be heard on critical issue of gerrymandering.
As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden.
We all deserve better than this malpractice of governance. Whatever your grievance — economic, health or both — we need leadership that listens to science and takes action, at local, state and federal levels.
It is better late than never for Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Stop the COVID Spread coalition to support wearing masks. However, there is more for them to do.
I was 23 and on active duty with the Army at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, a little less than three hours from the School Book Depository Building where Lee Harvey Oswald ended the life of a man who had come to represent the hopes and dreams of so many Americans.
The differing year-end responses of elected officials across Wisconsin to the COVID-19 pandemic that is sickening, hospitalizing and killing record numbers of us is stunning.
Wisconsin has been desperately searching for leadership to get through the COVID epidemic that has ripped up the state. Fortunately, we finally have a leader who is stepping up to confront the monumental challenge.
Social distancing and wearing masks saves real peoples’ lives, speeds us to a better economic future, relieves the burdens on exhausted health care workers, and gives us hope for a better 2021.
The Ad Council has a plan to spend $50 million on a campaign to persuade Americans to get their shots.
Is it a harbor for white nationalists or a place that cares about racial equity?
Late great Native American writer from Wisconsin leaves a legacy of thoughtful columns.
Vaccine researchers, health care workers, grocery store employees, teachers and Dolly Parton, too — among many others — deserve our thanks.
Avoid holiday gatherings and instead, use distance technology to connect with friends and relatives. If you must leave the house, wear a mask and practice social distancing, and of course, wash your hands.
As Americans, we know that we can adapt and overcome the challenges of this unusual year. We can find ways to maintain our traditions in new, innovative ways or go back to basics of simpler times. Let us all focus on the most important things and people in our lives. We can do this.
We can be thankful that now the nation can get back to working on the challenges that face us.
Wisconsin’s senior senator has become one of America’s leading crackpots.
Milwaukee is running the exact sort of recount that it wants to: Secretive, dishonest, and ultimately designed to benefit only one candidate. In other words, it’s running the recount exactly like it ran the election.
The Burlington Area School District has experienced incidents of racism, but the small industrial city in southeast Wisconsin isn’t a racist community.
They are ‘wisdom keepers,’ who pass down our Native American culture.
Some states, in order to encourage EV charging station development, have allowed utility companies to construct and operate charging stations using fees they collect from their current electric customers.
Please follow normal procedures and allow all petitioners to be heard on critical issue of gerrymandering.
As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden.
We all deserve better than this malpractice of governance. Whatever your grievance — economic, health or both — we need leadership that listens to science and takes action, at local, state and federal levels.
It is better late than never for Wisconsin GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Stop the COVID Spread coalition to support wearing masks. However, there is more for them to do.
I was 23 and on active duty with the Army at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, a little less than three hours from the School Book Depository Building where Lee Harvey Oswald ended the life of a man who had come to represent the hopes and dreams of so many Americans.
The differing year-end responses of elected officials across Wisconsin to the COVID-19 pandemic that is sickening, hospitalizing and killing record numbers of us is stunning.