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Rendering us virtual children when it comes to how we appraise reality can have very real consequences.

At this point, Kelda Roys is the only major candidate running for a seat that has not been open in 58 years.

Biden’s liberal backers, the ones who have traded #BelieveWomen for #BelieveBiden, continue to stand by their man.

The entire Mueller investigation was nothing more than a cover-up for the FBI and Justice Department’s dirty dealing.

With state tax revenues plummeting and many small businesses on the brink of failure, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, examine how state and local governments will cope during the pandemic.

UW-Madison expert Dietram Scheufele talks about how decisions on civil rights, economic rights and how we live our lives must be informed by the best available science.

The Trump campaign sued a northern Wisconsin television station over this add, contending the president never called the novel coronavirus a hoax. Such lawsuits, including legal action brought by Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect Jill Karofsky during her successful campaign, threaten free speech.

One type of business that’s been especially impressive in taking the lead on implementing ways to reopen their doors are smaller, franchised athletic clubs.

Today, when both the physical health and economic health of our community are at risk from COVID-19, business as usual and politics as usual is no longer an option.

NextGen Wisconsin knows that moms need more than brunch and hollow platitudes this Mother’s Day. We need comprehensive, equitable and universal paid family leave, and we need it now.

The White House’s slow response of not recognizing the grave health risks posed by the virus, along with not putting the full force of the federal government behind the mass production of needed items for doctors and nurses, has now brought dismay to both ends of the political spectrum.

Wisconsin farmers are unwilling to support a mandate to keep meatpacking plants open at the expense and endangerment of plant workers.

Is Patrick Cudahy safe for workers? Are Cudahy officials protecting the community?

On February 23rd Ahmaud Arbery was killed for going on a run as a black man. National movement will honor his life with 2.23 mile run.

GOP lawmakers are asking the state Supreme Court for an injunction preventing the Evers administration from enforcing its latest stay-at-home order, arguing Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm exceeded her authority in issuing the new directive.

The assertion that contact tracing hasn’t happened because people don’t answer a phone call, when city workers are trying to call them, isn’t a good enough excuse.

In the eyes of many of these Europeans, according to the Times, the way the virus has savaged the U.S. exposes two great weaknesses — the erratic leadership of Donald Trump, who has long devalued expertise in government, and the longtime absence of a robust public health care system and social safety net.

The data shows pandemic spreading into non-urban red counties.

The hundreds of thousands out of work and the untold number of businesses on the brink of extinction might be interested to learn that their lieutenant governor thinks they are just acting like privileged people.

It is surely an irony that Franklin’s spirited defense of democratic authority is now being reactivated by protesters who are lambasting elected officials at the urging of President Trump, who just two weeks ago was claiming, erroneously, that the Constitution gave him broad authoritarian powers.

Rendering us virtual children when it comes to how we appraise reality can have very real consequences.

At this point, Kelda Roys is the only major candidate running for a seat that has not been open in 58 years.

Biden’s liberal backers, the ones who have traded #BelieveWomen for #BelieveBiden, continue to stand by their man.

The entire Mueller investigation was nothing more than a cover-up for the FBI and Justice Department’s dirty dealing.

With state tax revenues plummeting and many small businesses on the brink of failure, the WisOpinion Insiders, Jensen & Chvala, examine how state and local governments will cope during the pandemic.

UW-Madison expert Dietram Scheufele talks about how decisions on civil rights, economic rights and how we live our lives must be informed by the best available science.

The Trump campaign sued a northern Wisconsin television station over this add, contending the president never called the novel coronavirus a hoax. Such lawsuits, including legal action brought by Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect Jill Karofsky during her successful campaign, threaten free speech.

One type of business that’s been especially impressive in taking the lead on implementing ways to reopen their doors are smaller, franchised athletic clubs.

Today, when both the physical health and economic health of our community are at risk from COVID-19, business as usual and politics as usual is no longer an option.

NextGen Wisconsin knows that moms need more than brunch and hollow platitudes this Mother’s Day. We need comprehensive, equitable and universal paid family leave, and we need it now.

The White House’s slow response of not recognizing the grave health risks posed by the virus, along with not putting the full force of the federal government behind the mass production of needed items for doctors and nurses, has now brought dismay to both ends of the political spectrum.

Wisconsin farmers are unwilling to support a mandate to keep meatpacking plants open at the expense and endangerment of plant workers.

Is Patrick Cudahy safe for workers? Are Cudahy officials protecting the community?

On February 23rd Ahmaud Arbery was killed for going on a run as a black man. National movement will honor his life with 2.23 mile run.

GOP lawmakers are asking the state Supreme Court for an injunction preventing the Evers administration from enforcing its latest stay-at-home order, arguing Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm exceeded her authority in issuing the new directive.

The assertion that contact tracing hasn’t happened because people don’t answer a phone call, when city workers are trying to call them, isn’t a good enough excuse.

In the eyes of many of these Europeans, according to the Times, the way the virus has savaged the U.S. exposes two great weaknesses — the erratic leadership of Donald Trump, who has long devalued expertise in government, and the longtime absence of a robust public health care system and social safety net.

The data shows pandemic spreading into non-urban red counties.

The hundreds of thousands out of work and the untold number of businesses on the brink of extinction might be interested to learn that their lieutenant governor thinks they are just acting like privileged people.

It is surely an irony that Franklin’s spirited defense of democratic authority is now being reactivated by protesters who are lambasting elected officials at the urging of President Trump, who just two weeks ago was claiming, erroneously, that the Constitution gave him broad authoritarian powers.