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A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.
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A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.

Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.

Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.

In this episode, the Thompson Center was joined by Shannon Jankowski and Diego Zambrano to discuss the current reach of Anti-SLAPP statutes and the potential for further implementation.

It’s all about the wealth gap for workers at Colectivo and Milwaukee Art Museum.

Along with Walgreens and CVS, creating their own medical clinics to cut costs.

Our vote is sacred, and those who are in charge of the voting process are doing sacred work.

Playing nice with Americans who still support Trump simply doesn’t work. Many of them seem to regard it as a sign of weakness, not a gesture of reconciliation.

President Donald Trump may be allowing the Government Services Administration to proceed with the transition process to a Biden Administration, but one Republican die-hard in Wisconsin is clinging to a Trump election victory like a lost Japanese soldier unaware of the emperor’s surrender at the end of World War II.

You can’t court black voters and call them thieves at the same time.

Milwaukee County elections officials and their liberal allies insist there was no voter fraud in the presidential election. Witnesses to the Election Day ballot count say what they saw disputes those assertions.

Changes are coming to U.S. trade policy, but it is too early to tell if we should expect dramatic waves or subtle ripples during the next four years.

Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson is an impostor pretending to be a health care expert and a U.S. senator.

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.

A place I have so long associated with education and progress, seems defiant in its intent to ignore science, global lessons, and commonsense practices around COVID-19.

Thanksgiving week came with a side of public health fines for Dane County businesses, as Public Health Madison & Dane County clamps down on public gatherings in the COVID-19 era.

Defenders of honest discourse and the democracy that extends from it should be especially alert to the threat posed by Trump’s pressuring of his FCC minions might crash the internet in response to a presidential fit of pique.

In this episode, the Thompson Center was joined by Shannon Jankowski and Diego Zambrano to discuss the current reach of Anti-SLAPP statutes and the potential for further implementation.

It’s all about the wealth gap for workers at Colectivo and Milwaukee Art Museum.

Along with Walgreens and CVS, creating their own medical clinics to cut costs.

Our vote is sacred, and those who are in charge of the voting process are doing sacred work.

Playing nice with Americans who still support Trump simply doesn’t work. Many of them seem to regard it as a sign of weakness, not a gesture of reconciliation.

President Donald Trump may be allowing the Government Services Administration to proceed with the transition process to a Biden Administration, but one Republican die-hard in Wisconsin is clinging to a Trump election victory like a lost Japanese soldier unaware of the emperor’s surrender at the end of World War II.

You can’t court black voters and call them thieves at the same time.

Milwaukee County elections officials and their liberal allies insist there was no voter fraud in the presidential election. Witnesses to the Election Day ballot count say what they saw disputes those assertions.

Changes are coming to U.S. trade policy, but it is too early to tell if we should expect dramatic waves or subtle ripples during the next four years.

Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson is an impostor pretending to be a health care expert and a U.S. senator.

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.