On June 22, the Wisconsin Assembly voted 61-37 to pass Senate Bill 119, which would penalize municipalities who seek to cut their police budgets. The bill would cut state shared revenue payments if a municipality reduces their funding to police and would redistribute that money to other communities. The bill now heads to Governor Evers’ […]
Water-related sickness in Kewaunee Co. traced back to manure
Two Wisconsin icons, dairy cows and fresh water, appear to be at war. Two new studies, one from U.S. Department of Agriculture research engineer Tucker Burch and one from USDA microbiologist Mark Borchardt, find that in Northeast Wisconsin cow manure flowing into drinking waters accounts for ~76% of human gastrointestinal illnesses. Worse yet, the normal […]
Biden Extending Eviction Moratorium to July 31
The CDC eviction moratorium is due to expire on July 31. University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Mitch will tell us what that will mean.
A Managed Retreat for Climate Resilience
Should humans retreat from climate risk zones? The University of Miami’s Katherine Mach tells us what a managed retreat would look like.
Fathers And Sons In Classical Literature
With Father’s Day just past, Brandeis University classical scholar Joel Christensen joins us once again to offer some reflections on what ancient Greek epics offer us on the topic of Fathers and Sons. “Odysseus with an aged Laertes” Theodoor van Thulden, Free Art License, via Wikimedia Commons
Postal Service Banking Could Help Impoverished Communities
In 2020, when the federal Department of Revenue tried to distribute billions of dollars in stimulus payments under the CARES act, it ran into a problem. As many as 25% of American households — over 24 million people — do not have their own checking or savings account. These households had to wait several weeks […]
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