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Ellen M. Gilligan: Now is the time for racial justice

Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and more communities capsized, all the while lamenting that nothing has changed since the last atrocity. Well, we must change, and we must start now.

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M.D. Kittle: DHS double standard

Video of the bedlam in some of America’s cities, — including Madison and Milwaukee — make it clear that peaceful protesters, rioters, and looters alike in recent days have failed to practice social distancing orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Will the Wisconsin Department of Health Services track potential increased cases of COVID-19 with the same zeal they had following the spring elections?

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Dominique Paul Noth: Death and virus – Maddow forces us to keep several balls in the air

Until the Floyd explosion in dozens of cities, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was trying to split the nation’s attention in her nightly news show between the global pandemic and the steady but diverse deterioration state by state, nursing home by nursing home, prison by prison, meat packing plant by plant, doctor by doctor. In many ways, this is the real human story of the president’s failure and where our nation must be paying attention to recover.

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M.D. Kittle: Worse than once thought

Pandemic and Gov. Tony Evers’ lockdown policies have battered and bruised Wisconsin’s economy. As the Badger State slowly shakes off the dust of a statewide shutdown, economic indicators show it will be some time before the economy really rebounds.

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Ellen M. Gilligan: Now is the time for racial justice

Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and more communities capsized, all the while lamenting that nothing has changed since the last atrocity. Well, we must change, and we must start now.

Read More »

M.D. Kittle: DHS double standard

Video of the bedlam in some of America’s cities, — including Madison and Milwaukee — make it clear that peaceful protesters, rioters, and looters alike in recent days have failed to practice social distancing orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Will the Wisconsin Department of Health Services track potential increased cases of COVID-19 with the same zeal they had following the spring elections?

Read More »

Dominique Paul Noth: Death and virus – Maddow forces us to keep several balls in the air

Until the Floyd explosion in dozens of cities, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was trying to split the nation’s attention in her nightly news show between the global pandemic and the steady but diverse deterioration state by state, nursing home by nursing home, prison by prison, meat packing plant by plant, doctor by doctor. In many ways, this is the real human story of the president’s failure and where our nation must be paying attention to recover.

Read More »

M.D. Kittle: Worse than once thought

Pandemic and Gov. Tony Evers’ lockdown policies have battered and bruised Wisconsin’s economy. As the Badger State slowly shakes off the dust of a statewide shutdown, economic indicators show it will be some time before the economy really rebounds.

Read More »

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