The struggle continues for community control of police in Milwaukee
Sep 26, 2024 · On May 30, 2021, the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (MAARPR) responded to a fatal officer-involved shooting on Milwaukee’s South Side. Roberto “Touch” Zielinski, age 49, was having a mental health crisis when Milwaukee police officers opened fire on him. As with other officer-involved shootings, Zielinski’s ...
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DNR releases environmental impact statement on Line 5 relocation
Sep 26, 2024 · The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Thursday released a final environmental impact statement on Enbridge Energy’s plan to relocate its controversial Line 5 oil pipeline out of the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin. The nearly 900-page document is another step toward the company receiving the necessary permits from the ...
UW Regents fire former UW-La Crosse chancellor from faculty for …
Sep 27, 2024 · The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday fired former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow from the school’s faculty over his controversial pornographic videos. Gow had previously been fired from his position as chancellor after the videos, posted to a number of porn sites and sometimes featuring adult film stars, were uncovered, but ...
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Rebecca Cooke wins Democratic primary to take on Derrick Van …
Aug 13, 2024 · Rebecca Cooke won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District Tuesday. She’ll go on to face Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden in the general election for one of the seats that will decide which party wins control of the House of Representatives. Cooke, a former small business owner who operates a non-profit and ...
Regents accept UWM plan with system’s first mass layoff of …
Aug 22, 2024 · With only one dissent, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that will include the layoff of 35 tenured faculty members. It would be the first mass layoff of tenured faculty anywhere in the Universities of Wisconsin system since state law weakened the system’s tenure ...
Wisconsin joins new federal online program for filing income tax ...
By: Erik Gunn - August 21, 2024 1:54 pm. Wisconsin taxpayers will be able to file state and federal tax returns in 2025 directly online for free. (Getty Images) Wisconsin taxpayers will be among those able to file their state and federal income tax returns online directly and for free next year, the state Department of Revenue announced Wednesday.
The Diocese of La Crosse ousted its most controversial priest, but ...
Jul 23, 2021 · Over the last year, the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse has been handling the fallout of one of its priests, Father James Altman, continuously preaching dangerous and hateful rhetoric about Democrats, vaccines, transgender people and other conspiracy theories from the altar of St. James the Less Catholic Church and his widely viewed social media channels.
Far-right versus center-right candidates in Republican Senate …
Aug 2, 2024 · Two Republican primaries will take place for the Wisconsin state Senate this month with the winners slated to face Democrats, who are seeking to flip the seats. ‘Right-center’ v. ‘Radical’ Republicans compete for open Fox Valley seat. Anthony Phillips, a Fox Valley cancer physician, and Blong Yang, an Appleton restaurant owner, will ...