President Donald Trump signed a new executive order to make it easier to destroy and pollute thousands of wetlands, especially in the interior western states.“Trump just put millions of acres of wetlands on the chopping block and our wildlife and waters will suffer,” said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “This order is a gift to Trump’s frie.... Read More
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who penned the court opinion that ended the controversial John Doe probe of Scott Walker’s campaign activities, is one of the featured speakers at a Republican Party fundraiser. Another featured speaker is the head of a shadowy right-wing group that the John Doe prosecutor was reportedly looking into. That group, Wisconsin Club for Growth, spent .... Read More
The routine is familiar. The president makes a few bad jokes. The championship-winning team presents the leader of the free world with a personalized jersey. Everyone smiles for the cameras.Nothing political about that, right?Not exactly.In a divided nation, everything is political.While presidents have been snubbed before, six players from the Super Bowl champion New England Patri.... Read More
In 1971, the Milwaukee Bucks stunned the basketball world by winning the NBA championship in only its third season of professional play. At the center of this upstart team stood 24-year-old Lew Alcindor, a 7’2” draft pick from UCLA.The basketball world was about to be further startled.The day after the Bucks swept a four-game championship over the Baltimore Bullets and he earned the NBA’.... Read More
A coalition of citizen organizations will hold a town hall listening session on protecting the health care of over 400,000 Wisconsinites whose coverage is at risk. The event takes place this Saturday, Feb. 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the IBEW 494 Union Hall, 3303 S. 103rd St. in Greenfield.More than 200 constituents are expected to attend to exchange ideas on critical issues before Congress, .... Read More
The United States does not have a way to measure how well walls or fencing work to deter illegal crossings from Mexico, according to a report released by Congress’ main watchdog.The Government Accountability Office said the government spent $2.3 billion from 2007 to 2015 to extend fences to 654 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile border and more to repair them.Despite those investments, the .... Read More
Ninety independent movie theaters nationwide are screening 1984 on April 4 to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarian approach to government.So far, none of the theaters in Wisconsin has announced participation in the project.The movie 1984 is based on the classic novel of the same name by George Orwell. The setting is a dystopian future in which the government manufactures facts, revises .... Read More
Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Jane Smiley are among 32 authors contributing to a book of letters responding to the election of President Donald Trump.Vintage Books said Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times will be published May 2 as a paperback original.“The anthology offers readers an antidote to despair: it is a salve, a balm, a compass, .... Read More
Legislation to bring Wisconsin's overtime pay law in line with existing salaries and the current cost of living was introduced by state Sen. Dave Hansen and state Rep. Cory Mason, both Democrats.The legislation was first introduced in 2015 by Sen. Julie Lassa and Rep. Andy Jorgenson.Wisconsin’s middle class has shrunk faster than any other state in the nation between 2000 and 2013.... Read More
Wally Pfingsten has always been a news junkie. But since President Donald Trump was elected, he’s been so anxious about the political tumult that even just having the TV news on in the background at home is unbearable.“It’s been crippling,” said the 35-year-old San Mateo, Calif., resident and political moderate who has supported both Democratic and Republican candidates in the past. �.... Read More
