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Noting that every campus cannot be “all things to all people,” changes are coming for comprehensive universities
In March, it became clear Wisconsin could not avoid the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the expectations of the communities our colleges have faithfully served for more than 100 years instantly intensified. Our colleges, students and graduates adapted and responded immediately, as only they could.
It only took us a week to see what liberals would do statewide if the Wisconsin Supreme Court had not required Gov. Tony Evers’s health secretary to follow the law.
Even a simple act like wearing a face mask while out in public during a pandemic is fast being weaponized politically.
The underlying concern about my not listing all the candidates in the SD 26 race in a previous blog post is legitimate. I also should have remembered what it feels like to be perceived as a second-tier candidate.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Recently, I ran a television ad across our state asking Governor Evers several questions about the extended lockdown and its negative
While our local heroes have gotten enormous support from the public and local media, they are not getting the support they need from the federal government.
With each passing week, we learn more about what works and what doesn’t to contain the Covid-19 contagion, acknowledging that we have far more to learn.
Team Evers sent out the press release on his “We’re All In” initiative without a plan to get the money to eligible applicants.
On Wednesday in Michigan our nation again witnessed disasters due to our aging and crumbling infrastructure. Too often these events happen, and it reflects on our political inability to govern and create the required policies.
The recent “Blueprint for the UW System Beyond COVID-19” should be seen as a political document that’s using the pandemic to create major changes in the University of Wisconsin System.
Mike Crute’s stations, audience growing, so why the resistance from Democratic leaders?
Instead of propping up failed state bureaucracies, the federal government should support American workers.
As part of her critique of essential public health measures in Wisconsin, she devoted page after page of the concurrence to recalling the World War II-era removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and communities and the forcible detention of these citizens in distant internment camps.
Gov. Tony Evers’ health chief was prepared to take her power play local after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state lockdown.
Our system of electing the President of the United States is broken, and Wisconsin has the opportunity to help fix it by becoming the 17th jurisdiction to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and reform the way America elects our presidents.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if we had devoted more of our resources to explore and develop ways to protect the public’s health from dangers like the latest coronavirus — a budget that the Trump people actually reduced — instead of figuring out we can militarize outer space?
1800s utopian commune called Ceresco was established — and collapsed — just blocks from where GOP was later founded.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. For over three years, dialysis has been a central part of my life. Three times every week I go to the
The ruling ushers in what can perhaps be dubbed “Part III” of ongoing governmental attempts to address COVID-19 in Wisconsin: the advent of a patchwork of local-level regulations aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus.
Noting that every campus cannot be “all things to all people,” changes are coming for comprehensive universities
In March, it became clear Wisconsin could not avoid the effects of the global coronavirus pandemic, and the expectations of the communities our colleges have faithfully served for more than 100 years instantly intensified. Our colleges, students and graduates adapted and responded immediately, as only they could.
It only took us a week to see what liberals would do statewide if the Wisconsin Supreme Court had not required Gov. Tony Evers’s health secretary to follow the law.
Even a simple act like wearing a face mask while out in public during a pandemic is fast being weaponized politically.
The underlying concern about my not listing all the candidates in the SD 26 race in a previous blog post is legitimate. I also should have remembered what it feels like to be perceived as a second-tier candidate.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Recently, I ran a television ad across our state asking Governor Evers several questions about the extended lockdown and its negative
While our local heroes have gotten enormous support from the public and local media, they are not getting the support they need from the federal government.
With each passing week, we learn more about what works and what doesn’t to contain the Covid-19 contagion, acknowledging that we have far more to learn.
Team Evers sent out the press release on his “We’re All In” initiative without a plan to get the money to eligible applicants.
On Wednesday in Michigan our nation again witnessed disasters due to our aging and crumbling infrastructure. Too often these events happen, and it reflects on our political inability to govern and create the required policies.
The recent “Blueprint for the UW System Beyond COVID-19” should be seen as a political document that’s using the pandemic to create major changes in the University of Wisconsin System.
Mike Crute’s stations, audience growing, so why the resistance from Democratic leaders?
Instead of propping up failed state bureaucracies, the federal government should support American workers.
As part of her critique of essential public health measures in Wisconsin, she devoted page after page of the concurrence to recalling the World War II-era removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and communities and the forcible detention of these citizens in distant internment camps.
Gov. Tony Evers’ health chief was prepared to take her power play local after the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state lockdown.
Our system of electing the President of the United States is broken, and Wisconsin has the opportunity to help fix it by becoming the 17th jurisdiction to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and reform the way America elects our presidents.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if we had devoted more of our resources to explore and develop ways to protect the public’s health from dangers like the latest coronavirus — a budget that the Trump people actually reduced — instead of figuring out we can militarize outer space?
1800s utopian commune called Ceresco was established — and collapsed — just blocks from where GOP was later founded.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. For over three years, dialysis has been a central part of my life. Three times every week I go to the
The ruling ushers in what can perhaps be dubbed “Part III” of ongoing governmental attempts to address COVID-19 in Wisconsin: the advent of a patchwork of local-level regulations aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus.