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Evers asks Trump not to come to Kenosha
In a two-page letter to President Donald Trump, Gov. Tony Evers asked the president not to come to Kenosha on Tuesday, saying Trump’s planned visit would “hinder our healing.” In the letter, sent electronically on Sunday, Evers wrote: “I understand yesterday you indicated you would be visiting Kenosha … I write today to respectfully ask […]
Supreme Court asked to throw out the order that closed Dane County schools
The same law firm that recently asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask order has filed an emergency petition seeking to end the Dane County order that will keep children in grades 3-12 at home to start school online this fall. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) asked […]
A stark and scary vision for America
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a video Wednesday in which he condemned the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, and related the condolence call he made to the Blake family. Once again, a Black man — Jacob Blake — was shot by the police. In front of his children. It makes me sick. […]
The RNC hatefest and Kenosha on fire
White fear is a central theme of the Republican National Convention this week. Take Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis personal injury lawyers charged with felonies for waving loaded guns at unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters who were walking past their house. “What you saw happen to us could just as easily happen to […]
Madison mayor denounces downtown destruction after Kenosha shooting
On Tuesday morning, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway issued a statement denouncing looting, broken windows and dumpster fires around the Capitol square in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. “Our city honors the First Amendment and peaceful protests, but we draw the line on arson, theft, and criminal damage to property […]
Joe Biden’s radical compassion
On the closing night of the Democratic convention, the whole four-day, stations-of-the-cross march through COVID, climate catastrophe, family separation, gun violence, hatred, bigotry and injustice finally made sense. This was not “a normal convention,” as President Obama put it, but then, “It’s not a normal time.” There was very little levity, and a whole lot […]
The battle for Wisconsin
“I did hear the Democrats were supposed to have their national convention in Wisconsin — but they couldn’t make it,” Vice President Mike Pence said tauntingly Wednesday at a rally outside a manufacturing plant in Darien. Pence was the third member of the Trump campaign to show up this week to rub salt in the […]
The curtain rises on the Democratic convention
Since Milwaukee had the very bad luck to be chosen to host the Coronavirus Democratic Convention, which has been moved almost entirely online, hometown press and politicians are boosting the idea that maybe Wisconsin will get a second chance in another four years. But it seems just as likely that there won’t be any more […]
Baldwin, Senate Dems demand postmaster address delays before election
Sen. Tammy Baldwin joined her Democratic colleagues in the Senate in sending a letter to U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy expressing “significant concern” about policies DeJoy is implementing that will increase the cost of election-related mail and slow down delivery. The senators wrote to DeJoy “We … urge you not to take any action that […]
The Kamala Harris choice
Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate is not exactly shocking, but it did accomplish what the vice presidential pick is supposed to do: It gave a shot in the arm to a campaign becalmed during the dog days of August, especially needed as the coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on the […]
What Trump’s collapse means for America
Reality is finally catching up with our reality TV star president. Faced with an unprecedented economic collapse triggered by his own clear failure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic (something other industrialized nations have managed to pull off) the Donald tweeted hopefully last week that the November election might need to be rescheduled. No one really […]
Outdoor classrooms could help solve the school reopening dilemma
To re-open or not to re-open? The great back-to-school debate currently taking place in communities all across the country pits public health against education. It’s a difficult dilemma: Should school districts pack kids into classrooms to share germs with each other and vulnerable, older school staff — even as COVID-19 rates continue to spike? Or […]