You see it everywhere—on commercials, store signs, and all over social media: grocery workers are the unsung heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. But do they feel like heroes? Today we […]
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Ensuring Safe (and fair) elections
How has voting changed? Elizabeth Howard, Counsel for The Brennan Center for Justice has studied that question in her “Ensuring Safe Elections Report”. Five times more people in Wisconsin voted […]
NRC moves forward on temporary nuclear waste storage plan
The Republican-controlled Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced that it will move forward with temporary high-level nuclear waste storage in New Mexico, despite hazards of transportation and failure to have a […]
COVID shows our weak food supply
Amanda Starbuck, Senior Food Researcher and Policy Analyst at Food and Water Watch talks about how the COVID crisis has shown how broken the U.S. food supply chain is. Corporate […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Up Case to Undo Safer-At-Home
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning in a case brought by Republican legislative leaders to overturn the extension of Wisconsin’s safer at home order. Attorneys for the […]
Evers resolves open records lawsuit
Last week, Governor Tony Evers’ administration settled a lawsuit filed by state Representative John Nygren, a Republican from Marinette. The complaint concerned an open records request Nygren filed last August […]