
Bill Kaplan: Coronavirus has changed circumstances
Dem Gov. Tony Evers has moved forward, while GOP legislators falter.
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Dem Gov. Tony Evers has moved forward, while GOP legislators falter.
While it didn’t get a lot of play in the mainstream media, liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Jill Karofsky’s answers to an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire really show her judicial activist stripes.
Kelly was a regular blogger from 2012 to 2015, during which he regularly expressed his view that to use government money to benefit the needy is, in essence, forcibly taking money from the some who created wealth.
There is a bill currently in the Wisconsin Senate (SB 789) — Expanding Course Access — that can better equip families and Wisconsin’s K-12 system for what comes next.
Every essential worker — whether on the front lines, working with the public, or simply working closely with coworkers — must have personal protective equipment and distance from one another to save their own lives and the lives of all Americans.
The reason this is happening right now is that many of the largest institutional buyers of dairy products, including schools and restaurants, abruptly closed nationwide.
There are several sections in our state Constitution protecting the rights of the accused, as there should be. The proposed amendment simply puts the victims of crime on a more equal playing field with those accused of committing crimes.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze what’s at stake in state, county and local races in the 2020 spring elections.
Just when one concludes Donald Trump has led the country to the deepest circle of hell, he somehow takes it lower. History will remember him as our first mob boss president.
Judges in Wisconsin have recently made some important decisions about the April 7th election in response to the coronavirus crisis. These starkly different decisions illustrate two very different beliefs about the role of the judicial branch.
In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over.
Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin Democrats want to delay the state’s April 7 primary to keep voters safe, But, so far, the election’s still on.
Humphrey shares a letter from an elections official suggesting elected officials come work the polls.
While Marsy’s Law has good intentions, it was not drafted with the existing protections for victims under the Wisconsin Constitution in mind. So it is likely to burden our state with unclear, unfunded mandates while presenting grave risks to the constitutional protections for citizens of Wisconsin accused of crimes.
I stay home to help halt the COVID-19 pandemic. It is as if we all have gone back in time to a more sedentary life. There is only occasional traffic down my rural road – a single car, the milk truck bound for the dairy farm a mile west, the UPS truck making deliveries. There is little else and it is so quiet. It brings back other times when life paused.
Even more than before, this pandemic has shown us that we need a leader in the White House who can unite our country and steer us through a crisis. That’s Joe Biden.
Pandemic overshadowing what could have been important election.
These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis.
Refusal of Vos and Fitzgerald to postpone election could cause more disease, deaths.
Hard data on the coronavirus and its effects in the Badger State has been slow in coming, if available at all, from Secretary-designee Andrea Palm’s Department of Health Services.
Dem Gov. Tony Evers has moved forward, while GOP legislators falter.
While it didn’t get a lot of play in the mainstream media, liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Jill Karofsky’s answers to an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire really show her judicial activist stripes.
Kelly was a regular blogger from 2012 to 2015, during which he regularly expressed his view that to use government money to benefit the needy is, in essence, forcibly taking money from the some who created wealth.
There is a bill currently in the Wisconsin Senate (SB 789) — Expanding Course Access — that can better equip families and Wisconsin’s K-12 system for what comes next.
Every essential worker — whether on the front lines, working with the public, or simply working closely with coworkers — must have personal protective equipment and distance from one another to save their own lives and the lives of all Americans.
The reason this is happening right now is that many of the largest institutional buyers of dairy products, including schools and restaurants, abruptly closed nationwide.
There are several sections in our state Constitution protecting the rights of the accused, as there should be. The proposed amendment simply puts the victims of crime on a more equal playing field with those accused of committing crimes.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, analyze what’s at stake in state, county and local races in the 2020 spring elections.
Just when one concludes Donald Trump has led the country to the deepest circle of hell, he somehow takes it lower. History will remember him as our first mob boss president.
Judges in Wisconsin have recently made some important decisions about the April 7th election in response to the coronavirus crisis. These starkly different decisions illustrate two very different beliefs about the role of the judicial branch.
In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over.
Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin Democrats want to delay the state’s April 7 primary to keep voters safe, But, so far, the election’s still on.
Humphrey shares a letter from an elections official suggesting elected officials come work the polls.
While Marsy’s Law has good intentions, it was not drafted with the existing protections for victims under the Wisconsin Constitution in mind. So it is likely to burden our state with unclear, unfunded mandates while presenting grave risks to the constitutional protections for citizens of Wisconsin accused of crimes.
I stay home to help halt the COVID-19 pandemic. It is as if we all have gone back in time to a more sedentary life. There is only occasional traffic down my rural road – a single car, the milk truck bound for the dairy farm a mile west, the UPS truck making deliveries. There is little else and it is so quiet. It brings back other times when life paused.
Even more than before, this pandemic has shown us that we need a leader in the White House who can unite our country and steer us through a crisis. That’s Joe Biden.
Pandemic overshadowing what could have been important election.
These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis.
Refusal of Vos and Fitzgerald to postpone election could cause more disease, deaths.
Hard data on the coronavirus and its effects in the Badger State has been slow in coming, if available at all, from Secretary-designee Andrea Palm’s Department of Health Services.