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At a hastily called special meeting, the Racine City Council voted (9-5) to give an unelected health bureaucrat the power to close businesses and lockdown the city at will in response to COVID-19.
Much to my surprise, the UW Board of Regents, still controlled by Scott Walker appointees, did a smart thing. They chose former Gov. Tommy Thompson, 78, to be interim system president for at least the next year.
As he seeks Wisconsin’s support in the 2020 election, President Trump must carefully consider the negative effects his trade war and its tariffs have had on our state.
Party of slavery, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan and segregation has a short memory.
In a recent column, Walker attempted to claim the mantle of civil rights for the Republican Party by attacking the loathsome Democratic segregationists who wrote and defended racist Jim Crow laws.
As we grapple with this mess of a nation, we must be increasingly aware of the silent but deadly “Cold Civil War” for dignity being fought every day.
Study shows municipal governments in state spending far more on policing today.
A week after a the Wisconsin Election Commission deadlocked on specifically prohibiting “ballot harvesting,” third party requests and gathering of absentee ballots, new questions are being asked about a memo that seemingly allows the practice in defiance of state law.
Our world is filled with experts of one sort or another, and these days it feels even more so. To a certain extent, we can often tell who obviously unqualified experts are. The more challenging situation is the expert who does, at first glance, seem to be qualified.
If Winnebago County supervisors thought they were going to nonchalantly move through an ordinance that would give police powers to the county health officer, they were quickly disabused of that notion Monday morning.
You can rest assured he’ll be a good caretaker of the university he loves while the Regents try to fix their initially botched search for a new UW System president in the months ahead.
I believe Thompson is a most-qualified person, and well-suited to lead the UW System at this time because he can strike the needed chords of unity. Something so much in need now in our state.
Ordinances propose granting the power to hire quarantine guards with police powers, revoke businesses’ licenses for non-compliance, and issue a fine of up to $25,000.00 per violation
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, it was reported that when it came to Juneteenth Day, neither Donald Trump nor any of his staff seemed to know the meaning of the holiday before the furor over the Tulsa rally. Really…Seriously…Nobody?
Protesters are helping Wisconsin to have an overdue reckoning with racial disparities and injustice.
Two recent reports suggest the Midwest, more than other U.S. regions, is a place where racial inequalities are most evident in economic disparities – which can translate to frustration among people who want to rise above it but believe they cannot.
Would we honor Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor?
As unemployment claims continue to flood the Department of Workforce Development, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate who’s at fault for delays that have left many jobless without their checks.
A nationwide push to remove symbols of white supremacy from public places is a welcome sign the nation is moving in the right direction after Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd.
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses.
At a hastily called special meeting, the Racine City Council voted (9-5) to give an unelected health bureaucrat the power to close businesses and lockdown the city at will in response to COVID-19.
Much to my surprise, the UW Board of Regents, still controlled by Scott Walker appointees, did a smart thing. They chose former Gov. Tommy Thompson, 78, to be interim system president for at least the next year.
As he seeks Wisconsin’s support in the 2020 election, President Trump must carefully consider the negative effects his trade war and its tariffs have had on our state.
Party of slavery, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan and segregation has a short memory.
In a recent column, Walker attempted to claim the mantle of civil rights for the Republican Party by attacking the loathsome Democratic segregationists who wrote and defended racist Jim Crow laws.
As we grapple with this mess of a nation, we must be increasingly aware of the silent but deadly “Cold Civil War” for dignity being fought every day.
Study shows municipal governments in state spending far more on policing today.
A week after a the Wisconsin Election Commission deadlocked on specifically prohibiting “ballot harvesting,” third party requests and gathering of absentee ballots, new questions are being asked about a memo that seemingly allows the practice in defiance of state law.
Our world is filled with experts of one sort or another, and these days it feels even more so. To a certain extent, we can often tell who obviously unqualified experts are. The more challenging situation is the expert who does, at first glance, seem to be qualified.
If Winnebago County supervisors thought they were going to nonchalantly move through an ordinance that would give police powers to the county health officer, they were quickly disabused of that notion Monday morning.
You can rest assured he’ll be a good caretaker of the university he loves while the Regents try to fix their initially botched search for a new UW System president in the months ahead.
I believe Thompson is a most-qualified person, and well-suited to lead the UW System at this time because he can strike the needed chords of unity. Something so much in need now in our state.
Ordinances propose granting the power to hire quarantine guards with police powers, revoke businesses’ licenses for non-compliance, and issue a fine of up to $25,000.00 per violation
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, it was reported that when it came to Juneteenth Day, neither Donald Trump nor any of his staff seemed to know the meaning of the holiday before the furor over the Tulsa rally. Really…Seriously…Nobody?
Protesters are helping Wisconsin to have an overdue reckoning with racial disparities and injustice.
Two recent reports suggest the Midwest, more than other U.S. regions, is a place where racial inequalities are most evident in economic disparities – which can translate to frustration among people who want to rise above it but believe they cannot.
Would we honor Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor?
As unemployment claims continue to flood the Department of Workforce Development, the WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, debate who’s at fault for delays that have left many jobless without their checks.
A nationwide push to remove symbols of white supremacy from public places is a welcome sign the nation is moving in the right direction after Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd.
With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses.
