Civil Rights & Immigration
Trump’s cynical campaign stop in Kenosha
During the first 37 minutes of a roundtable discussion with the police chief, sheriff, business owners and Republican politicians in Kenosha, President Donald Trump and the other speakers did not mention Jacob Blake, the man shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha police officer. Not until Trump invited local minister James Ward (whom […]
Evers offers disaster help to Kenosha businesses
The same day that President Donald Trump visited Kenosha to meet with law enforcement and hold a roundtable discussion with local officials and business leaders, Gov. Tony Evers and Democratic state representatives from the area announced a new program to help Kenosha businesses, many of which have been damaged by vandalism and looting in the […]
Kenosha editor who quit over inflammatory headline launches GoFundMe
Daniel Thompson, the digital editor at The Kenosha News who quit on Saturday after his editor insisted on putting an inflammatory headline on a story about a protest, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help him continue reporting. Thompson, who was the only full-time Black staff member at the Kenosha News, resigned over a headline […]
Kenosha braces for visit by Trump
Rebuffing requests by Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor John Antaramian that he stay away, President Donald Trump will be arriving in Kenosha on Tuesday. Trump is planning to meet with law enforcement and survey the damage to the downtown after a week of protests of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black Kenosha resident […]
Kenosha officials on Trump, protests and police
As the City of Kenosha entered the second week since a police officer shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, officials held a press conference in which they celebrated a weekend of peace and braced for the imminent arrival of President Donald Trump. Trump is set to visit the city Tuesday despite pleas from […]
Republicans hold special session in name only
Once again on Monday, Gov. Tony Evers and legislative Democrats were confronted by the existential fact of the current state Legislature: Republican leaders can and will quash action on any issue just by not showing up. As was widely expected, both the Assembly and the Senate gaveled in the special session that Gov. Tony Evers […]
Lack of rural lawyers harms people’s health
In Polk County, patients without insurance often come into the care of the county’s public health or social services departments. When that’s the case, the county is able to connect those people with ABC for Health, a nonprofit law firm that helps people gain healthcare access. The organization, based in Madison, has a branch in […]
If Fitzgerald and Vos won’t listen to Evers will they listen to the Bucks?
If you plan to place a bet on whether or not the Legislature will meet in a special session on Monday and take up measures tied to racial injustice and police reform — be careful how you phrase the bet. It’s not completely clear what will happen in the Legislature on Monday. On Monday Aug. […]
‘You just have to act’: Thousands outraged by police brutality rally at March on Washington
WASHINGTON – On the 57th anniversary of the original March on Washington and in the throes of a pandemic, thousands of demonstrators on Friday joined Democratic lawmakers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to demand Congress act on police brutality and voter suppression. The event, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, […]
Kamala Harris on Blake shooting: “it seems the officer should be charged”
Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said she wants to see a thorough investigation into the shooting of Jacob Blake by Officer Rusten Sheskey, and “based on what I have seen, it seems the officer should be charged.” Harris, a former prosecutor and California attorney general, made sure to point out that she […]
Groups call for Kenosha chief, sheriff to lose their jobs
Jacob Blake survived being shot seven times in the back by Kenosha police, but his father says he is paralyzed from the waist down. Despite that, Blake’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday, Blake has been handcuffed to his hospital bed. Asked at a news conference in Kenosha Thursday afternoon whether that report concerned […]
“Property can be rebuilt, the lives cannot be rebuilt.”
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul assembled local, state and national media in Kenosha in front of a grassy field as the sun began to descend Wednesday, conveying basic facts that the Department of Justice was able to share on its investigation into the police shooting of Jacob Blake that left the 29-year-old paralyzed. Details included […]