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Menard, Hendricks, Kohler among top 100 plutocrats getting richer during pandemic.

Last week Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and other city officials complained they were not invited to an Assembly committee informal hearing on well-heeled third party groups’ involvement in Green Bay’s November election. Now invited to appear next week before the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Genrich and crew are begging off.

UWM has shown an increasing awareness that its main mission of education is not its only responsibility. It has launched several major initiatives that deal directly, not indirectly, with the biggest issues in the M7 region.

As an African American woman, I believe in our time honored traditions of braiding. I also understand the need to entrepreneurial freedom, but I don’t want that to come at the expense of health and wellness.

Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are depending on us to act ambitiously today.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services dumped a data “cleanup” on Wednesday that created a dramatic increase in COVID-19 deaths attributed to long-term care facilities and removed 2,200 confirmed cases from their COVID-19 case count.

What the news coverage of the spa killings in Atlanta can teach us.

Racist words and deeds have meaning, and they have profound consequences — especially when they come in the context of a horrifying wave of violence directed at Asian Americans.

We have seen the will of Congress can move a powerful and costly measure to combat COVID and stir the economy. Surely, the mounting death toll from mass shootings and gun violence should also merit the same urgency.

Recently, Kewaunee city government officials sent Empower Wisconsin a bill for more than $10,000 — the amount it would charge to turn over public documents.

The nation’s new leader in peddling conspiracy theories. Is he planning a run for president?

Voters understand that elections should be conducted at the state and local levels — not out of Washington.

The basic idea is that the world is divided into “oppressors” and victims and that none of us control which group we fall into — that’s determined only by our race and gender.

Expert at state forum suggests federal courts may be less important as state courts rule on election laws.

On the dance floor, it takes two to tango. And in Washington, D.C., it takes two to be bipartisan.

Legislative Democrats have sponsored a bill meant to raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers who depend upon tips. Tipped workers in the state may be paid a minimum wage of as little as $2.13 or $2.33 per hour depending

A higher minimum wage doesn’t help those who invariably will lose their jobs.

Wisconsin will have a healthier and stronger recovery by expanding BadgerCare now.

Federal relief serves as a critical down payment on our economic recovery, but we need to maintain the momentum of those programs with new resources and new initiatives.

Evers may be the most closed-government governor in Wisconsin history. And Kaul, while he applauds his office for responding to “many open government issues,” has been an abject failure in standing up for Wisconsin’s open record laws.

Menard, Hendricks, Kohler among top 100 plutocrats getting richer during pandemic.

Last week Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich and other city officials complained they were not invited to an Assembly committee informal hearing on well-heeled third party groups’ involvement in Green Bay’s November election. Now invited to appear next week before the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Genrich and crew are begging off.

UWM has shown an increasing awareness that its main mission of education is not its only responsibility. It has launched several major initiatives that deal directly, not indirectly, with the biggest issues in the M7 region.

As an African American woman, I believe in our time honored traditions of braiding. I also understand the need to entrepreneurial freedom, but I don’t want that to come at the expense of health and wellness.

Our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are depending on us to act ambitiously today.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services dumped a data “cleanup” on Wednesday that created a dramatic increase in COVID-19 deaths attributed to long-term care facilities and removed 2,200 confirmed cases from their COVID-19 case count.

What the news coverage of the spa killings in Atlanta can teach us.

Racist words and deeds have meaning, and they have profound consequences — especially when they come in the context of a horrifying wave of violence directed at Asian Americans.

We have seen the will of Congress can move a powerful and costly measure to combat COVID and stir the economy. Surely, the mounting death toll from mass shootings and gun violence should also merit the same urgency.

Recently, Kewaunee city government officials sent Empower Wisconsin a bill for more than $10,000 — the amount it would charge to turn over public documents.

The nation’s new leader in peddling conspiracy theories. Is he planning a run for president?

Voters understand that elections should be conducted at the state and local levels — not out of Washington.

The basic idea is that the world is divided into “oppressors” and victims and that none of us control which group we fall into — that’s determined only by our race and gender.

Expert at state forum suggests federal courts may be less important as state courts rule on election laws.

On the dance floor, it takes two to tango. And in Washington, D.C., it takes two to be bipartisan.

Legislative Democrats have sponsored a bill meant to raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers who depend upon tips. Tipped workers in the state may be paid a minimum wage of as little as $2.13 or $2.33 per hour depending

A higher minimum wage doesn’t help those who invariably will lose their jobs.

Wisconsin will have a healthier and stronger recovery by expanding BadgerCare now.

Federal relief serves as a critical down payment on our economic recovery, but we need to maintain the momentum of those programs with new resources and new initiatives.

Evers may be the most closed-government governor in Wisconsin history. And Kaul, while he applauds his office for responding to “many open government issues,” has been an abject failure in standing up for Wisconsin’s open record laws.