Health commission finds 40% of COVID-19 deaths could be attributed to Trump’s failed pandemic policy
The United States could have averted 40% of the deaths from COVID-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record. Almost...
Vaccine Availability: How internet access can determine the health of minorities
By Tamra Burns Loeb, Adjunct Associate Professor – Interim; UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma, and Mental Health Disparities, University of California, Los Angeles; AJ Adkins-Jackson, Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,...
An overdue apology: Why slave-trading nations like America are morally bound to offer reparations
By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University The 20th anniversary of the UN World Conference on Racism, held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, will be celebrated this August. There was much discussion at...
Report finds that 430K Wisconsin residents lack high-speed internet access in rural areas
Major gaps in broadband access plague rural areas of Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands of people are going without high-speed internet. Yet, local governments might play a unique role in identifying underserved areas and connecting internet providers to programs...
An alternative to road salt: Scientists explore nontoxic de-icing options extracted from aquatic life
By Monika Bleszynski, Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, University of Denver Many people associate a fresh snowfall with pleasures like hot chocolate and winter sports. But for city dwellers, it can also mean caked-on salt that sticks to shoes, clothing hems...
NAACP uses Reconstruction Era Anti-KKK Law in lawsuit against conspirators of Capitol attack
The NAACP, Rep. Bennie Thompson, and a leading civil rights law firm on February 16 sued former President Donald Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, and right-wing groups for allegedly conspiring to incite last month’s deadly attack on the United States Capitol....
Closing of South Side fire station has escalated the workload of Milwaukee’s first responders
By Edgar Mendez • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service During a virtual community meeting hosted by the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission late last month, Aaron Lipski, acting chief of the Milwaukee Fire Department, sounded alarm bells of his own. “We’re way, way...
Undoing the Spoils System: The need to return civil service to a merit-based structure for the public good
By Barry M. Mitnick, Professor of Business Administration and of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh The federal government’s core civilian workforce has long been known for its professionalism. About 2.1 million nonpartisan career officials...
A Digital Lent: Moderating how we use technology to assist with our expressions of devotion
By Heidi A. Campbell, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University The season of Lent is upon us. This is a holy season for Christians who seek to identify with Jesus Christ’s 40 days of fasting as he prepared to be tested and later crucified. In order to identify...
Wisconsin proposes legalization of recreational marijuana to provide more tax revenue and create jobs
Governor Tony Evers will include a proposal in the next two-year budget to legalize recreational marijuana, as part of plan to generate more than $165 million each year for rural schools and underserved communities. The proposal to tax and regulate marijuana similar...
From Republican’t to Republikkkan: Patriot Party of Wisconsin created over split by Trump voters
Former President Donald Trump may have stepped back for now from the idea of creating a new political party, but that has not stopped diehard Trump fans disillusioned with the Republican Party from creating Patriot Parties of their own all across the country. Onetime...
Legislative effort seeks to end no-knock search warrants in Wisconsin after almost a quarter century
State Representative LaKeshia Myers recently introduced a new bill to prevent the use of no-knock search warrants by Wisconsin law enforcement. The bill was named “Breonna’s Law” after Louisville, Kentucky EMT Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old who was killed during such...
