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As we speak, the Black community is being devastated by catastrophic losses, both loss of life from COVID-19 and at the hands of police in a different kind of fatal epidemic. Black men and boys are especially vulnerable.
These may be challenging times, but I am confident that if we, as a community and as a nation, want to live our lives as a free society, then we must take the necessary steps to change the systemic culture of racism.
Madison deserves community-based safety strategies. Investments in housing, mental health services, health care, education, youth development and living wages reduce crime more than policing can ever hope to.
The recent actions of Monona police officers and the public response from city leadership illustrate the urgent need for the Black Lives Matter protests and police reforms even in small cities like my hometown of Monona.
If Davis-Bacon is eliminated, projects will be awarded through a fair and competitive bidding system that allows all qualified contractors to compete on a level playing field according to their ability to provide quality, experience and safety.
In general, districts around the state continue to make heavy expenditures in areas that are only tangentially related to classroom performance at best.
We were warned that our UI system was outdated and incapable of handling a huge spike in volume. In fact, many of the very same Republican legislators who were so quick to point the finger of blame at Governor Tony Evers were the same Republican legislators controlling the state’s purse strings for the last decade and failing to act on that warning.
Despite the best intentions of many who work within our institutions of public service, education, economic, health care and criminal justice, the outcomes produced by these systems are too often plagued by racial inequalities that we need to confront and fix.
Applying Act 10 to police unions is the right policy, but it’s in neither party’s political interest. We’re betting the policy change has no chance but we hope to be surprised.
We live in a country where civilian control over the military is enshrined in our Constitution. It follows that cities should recognize the importance of clearly defining, and maintaining, civilian control of the police.
If homicides, and violent crime in general, are rapidly rising now in Milwaukee, what would happen to public safety if the city’s police force lost 200, 300 or more officers?
If elected, he would be the first black man to represent Dane County in the state Legislature, and only the second black person to do so, following the election of Rep. Shelia Stubbs in 2018. He’s also a police officer.
All evidence suggests state is doing well. But there may be danger from other states.
Authors debate whether a proposed mandate to teach cursive writing in Wisconsin elementary schools is prudent and whether high school students should be required to learn coding.
The Madison PFC hasn’t ruled against an officer based on a citizen complaint since 1959 — and that was when the citizen was the mayor and the officer was the chief of police.
Ray Cross can manage in the interim if a new search for president is not launched until spring.
Leftist bomb thrower Scot Ross marked his first day at the Wisconsin Ethics Commission by characteristically spewing incendiary comments about Republican leadership.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul objects to an anti-lynching bill.
Players union demands financial records from Brewers, all MLB teams.
Decision in Pride Month protects 8.1 million LGBTQ workers from discrimination.
As we speak, the Black community is being devastated by catastrophic losses, both loss of life from COVID-19 and at the hands of police in a different kind of fatal epidemic. Black men and boys are especially vulnerable.
These may be challenging times, but I am confident that if we, as a community and as a nation, want to live our lives as a free society, then we must take the necessary steps to change the systemic culture of racism.
Madison deserves community-based safety strategies. Investments in housing, mental health services, health care, education, youth development and living wages reduce crime more than policing can ever hope to.
The recent actions of Monona police officers and the public response from city leadership illustrate the urgent need for the Black Lives Matter protests and police reforms even in small cities like my hometown of Monona.
If Davis-Bacon is eliminated, projects will be awarded through a fair and competitive bidding system that allows all qualified contractors to compete on a level playing field according to their ability to provide quality, experience and safety.
In general, districts around the state continue to make heavy expenditures in areas that are only tangentially related to classroom performance at best.
We were warned that our UI system was outdated and incapable of handling a huge spike in volume. In fact, many of the very same Republican legislators who were so quick to point the finger of blame at Governor Tony Evers were the same Republican legislators controlling the state’s purse strings for the last decade and failing to act on that warning.
Despite the best intentions of many who work within our institutions of public service, education, economic, health care and criminal justice, the outcomes produced by these systems are too often plagued by racial inequalities that we need to confront and fix.
Applying Act 10 to police unions is the right policy, but it’s in neither party’s political interest. We’re betting the policy change has no chance but we hope to be surprised.
We live in a country where civilian control over the military is enshrined in our Constitution. It follows that cities should recognize the importance of clearly defining, and maintaining, civilian control of the police.
If homicides, and violent crime in general, are rapidly rising now in Milwaukee, what would happen to public safety if the city’s police force lost 200, 300 or more officers?
If elected, he would be the first black man to represent Dane County in the state Legislature, and only the second black person to do so, following the election of Rep. Shelia Stubbs in 2018. He’s also a police officer.
All evidence suggests state is doing well. But there may be danger from other states.
Authors debate whether a proposed mandate to teach cursive writing in Wisconsin elementary schools is prudent and whether high school students should be required to learn coding.
The Madison PFC hasn’t ruled against an officer based on a citizen complaint since 1959 — and that was when the citizen was the mayor and the officer was the chief of police.
Ray Cross can manage in the interim if a new search for president is not launched until spring.
Leftist bomb thrower Scot Ross marked his first day at the Wisconsin Ethics Commission by characteristically spewing incendiary comments about Republican leadership.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul objects to an anti-lynching bill.
Players union demands financial records from Brewers, all MLB teams.
Decision in Pride Month protects 8.1 million LGBTQ workers from discrimination.
