Author: Staff

The COVID-19 outbreak shut down the Sailing Vessel Denis Sullivan just weeks before its 20th season was scheduled to begin. With its programming halted, and lacking minimal funds for its maintenance, the sailing days of Wisconsin’s flagship and Great Lakes floating classroom could be over. As Discovery World, the scientific museum that operates the vessel, made cutbacks over 2020, many employees were furloughed. But the financial pressure has continued to mount as the pandemic stretches on and cases of infections continue to skyrocket. As a result, the last two remaining crew to maintain the special freshwater ship – her...

Governor Tony Evers delivered a primetime address on November 10, calling for unity and working together in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor’s address came as Wisconsin had yet another record-breaking day in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Wisconsin reported more than 7,000 new cases, 66 lives lost, and 291 people hospitalized due to COVID-19 on November 10. During his address, Governor Evers pointed to projections from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The IHME’s projections indicates that based on current data, approximately 5,000 Wisconsinites could die from COVID-19 by January 1, 2021, if...

“The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. We are rounding the turn.” – Donald J. Trump “More than 225,000 people in this country are dead. More than 100,000 small businesses have closed. Half a million jobs are gone in Florida alone, think about that. And what’s his closing argument? That people are too focused on COVID … He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage.” – Barack Obama The “War on Crime” and the “War on Terror” both used the nostalgic World War 2 mentality of fighting a righteous conflict as a metaphor...