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Wisconsin’s leaders don’t want riots. They swear it. They support peaceful demonstrations and condemn racism in all its forms, but they absolutely, positively don’t want violence, arson, and looting. They just can’t stop acting like they do.
Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry’s main message in a recent interview was to ask whether we will learn from the pandemic or return to a status quo that was not good for the overwhelming majority of American families.
Congress should act quickly and give the program the boost it needs to help our COVID-19 recovery. Let’s reach across the aisle, extend and expand sound economic job creation policies.
Businesses that take adequate precautions to keep their businesses safe and open should be shielded from predatory lawsuits alleging liability for an invisible virus spreading throughout our communities.
It is incumbent upon neighbors, friends, and local authorities to start thinking on how we are going to help the most vulnerable handle the heat.
As the county sheriff, I commit to join my fellow law enforcement leaders at the local, state and national levels to pick up the mantel of building public trust and the legitimacy of law enforcement.
To be sure, there are peaceful protesters standing up for justice, but they, too, are being attacked by the anarchists and plain criminals that have come for the “free stuff.”
As the nation’s attention focused last week on the news that another unarmed African American man had died while in police custody, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes joined the discussion as someone who acknowledges, “I am tired of addressing the disregard for Black life in this country.”
Regardless of the party, regardless of the office, we need to expect better from our local leaders. They need to take the appropriate steps to end the rioting now and stop excusing it away.
The department has yet to announce how they will allocate the CARES Act funding.
He recused from voter purge case. After losing election the lame duck Supreme Court Justice has changed his mind.
Our community held our breath as we collectively watched in horror as another Black man was robbed of his last breath at the hands of a white police officer. Again.
We can focus on the looting and the violence. … Or we can focus on the message of protesters, that change has to come. And we can hope that change will begin to address the frustration and rage running so deep it leads to this kind of senseless violence.
Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and more communities capsized, all the while lamenting that nothing has changed since the last atrocity. Well, we must change, and we must start now.
Video of the bedlam in some of America’s cities, — including Madison and Milwaukee — make it clear that peaceful protesters, rioters, and looters alike in recent days have failed to practice social distancing orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Will the Wisconsin Department of Health Services track potential increased cases of COVID-19 with the same zeal they had following the spring elections?
Many in Milwaukee Archdiocese offered Mass Sunday, in violation of city shutdown order.
Ends rule requiring nonprofits spending on campaigns to disclose names of anyone giving $5,000 or more.
Joe Parisi and the County Board are showing, by example, that environmental protection and a booming economy not only do not conflict, but they can go hand in hand.
We all need to remember is that we are one nation, one people. Our futures are inextricably tied to one another. When we devalue the life of one group, we devalue everything that America represents.
Our nation needs a lot of things, but it needs more than anything else a single unifying, credible, grounded, calming, reasoned, and adult voice to lift us up and beyond the times in which we now find ourselves.
Wisconsin’s leaders don’t want riots. They swear it. They support peaceful demonstrations and condemn racism in all its forms, but they absolutely, positively don’t want violence, arson, and looting. They just can’t stop acting like they do.
Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry’s main message in a recent interview was to ask whether we will learn from the pandemic or return to a status quo that was not good for the overwhelming majority of American families.
Congress should act quickly and give the program the boost it needs to help our COVID-19 recovery. Let’s reach across the aisle, extend and expand sound economic job creation policies.
Businesses that take adequate precautions to keep their businesses safe and open should be shielded from predatory lawsuits alleging liability for an invisible virus spreading throughout our communities.
It is incumbent upon neighbors, friends, and local authorities to start thinking on how we are going to help the most vulnerable handle the heat.
As the county sheriff, I commit to join my fellow law enforcement leaders at the local, state and national levels to pick up the mantel of building public trust and the legitimacy of law enforcement.
To be sure, there are peaceful protesters standing up for justice, but they, too, are being attacked by the anarchists and plain criminals that have come for the “free stuff.”
As the nation’s attention focused last week on the news that another unarmed African American man had died while in police custody, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes joined the discussion as someone who acknowledges, “I am tired of addressing the disregard for Black life in this country.”
Regardless of the party, regardless of the office, we need to expect better from our local leaders. They need to take the appropriate steps to end the rioting now and stop excusing it away.
The department has yet to announce how they will allocate the CARES Act funding.
He recused from voter purge case. After losing election the lame duck Supreme Court Justice has changed his mind.
Our community held our breath as we collectively watched in horror as another Black man was robbed of his last breath at the hands of a white police officer. Again.
We can focus on the looting and the violence. … Or we can focus on the message of protesters, that change has to come. And we can hope that change will begin to address the frustration and rage running so deep it leads to this kind of senseless violence.
Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and more communities capsized, all the while lamenting that nothing has changed since the last atrocity. Well, we must change, and we must start now.
Video of the bedlam in some of America’s cities, — including Madison and Milwaukee — make it clear that peaceful protesters, rioters, and looters alike in recent days have failed to practice social distancing orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Will the Wisconsin Department of Health Services track potential increased cases of COVID-19 with the same zeal they had following the spring elections?
Many in Milwaukee Archdiocese offered Mass Sunday, in violation of city shutdown order.
Ends rule requiring nonprofits spending on campaigns to disclose names of anyone giving $5,000 or more.
Joe Parisi and the County Board are showing, by example, that environmental protection and a booming economy not only do not conflict, but they can go hand in hand.
We all need to remember is that we are one nation, one people. Our futures are inextricably tied to one another. When we devalue the life of one group, we devalue everything that America represents.
Our nation needs a lot of things, but it needs more than anything else a single unifying, credible, grounded, calming, reasoned, and adult voice to lift us up and beyond the times in which we now find ourselves.
