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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.
Promotion of unproven drug resulted in millions of pills being delivered to cities like Milwaukee.
As partisan fights continue to cloud so many aspects of our responses to COVID-19, ensuring safe, fair elections should not be a goal that gets stuck in the political muck.
For perhaps the first time in American history, the people have consented to the literal definition of tyranny; arbitrary, oppressive power wielded with a solemn assurance that it’s for our own good.
The marketplace reality is sinking in that the re-opening of the economy has less to do with regulators at the local, state and federal levels than it has to do with customers.
His campaign is taking on too much water and we cannot risk another four years of Donald Trump.
We should think very carefully about putting any regulations we’ve lifted back into effect.
Walker says he “cleaned up” Wisconsin after a stimulus, which glosses over history in a big way.
Vos shamed himself and embarrassed his state April 7. In so doing, he made a more powerful case than any Democratic ever will for his removal from the Legislature.
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.
Promotion of unproven drug resulted in millions of pills being delivered to cities like Milwaukee.
As partisan fights continue to cloud so many aspects of our responses to COVID-19, ensuring safe, fair elections should not be a goal that gets stuck in the political muck.
For perhaps the first time in American history, the people have consented to the literal definition of tyranny; arbitrary, oppressive power wielded with a solemn assurance that it’s for our own good.
The marketplace reality is sinking in that the re-opening of the economy has less to do with regulators at the local, state and federal levels than it has to do with customers.
His campaign is taking on too much water and we cannot risk another four years of Donald Trump.
We should think very carefully about putting any regulations we’ve lifted back into effect.
Walker says he “cleaned up” Wisconsin after a stimulus, which glosses over history in a big way.
Vos shamed himself and embarrassed his state April 7. In so doing, he made a more powerful case than any Democratic ever will for his removal from the Legislature.
