Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Racial, Ethnic and Religious Discrimination On the Rise If you are like most Americans, you don’t think much about New Zealand. Aside from what was learned in a geography class, you may know very little about the country. Some of that changed on March 15, with the recent […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor If you are African-American and ever received the “speech” from your parents, you can recite it with your eyes closed. No, not that speech, the other one. Life is not always fair and therefore you will have to fight hard to be treated equal. In order to get […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor “If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” ~Carter G Woodson, 1926 When Woodson declared the second week of February Negro History Week, it was […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Last week, Pope Francis held an unprecedented meeting regarding the crisis of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church. He called for “concrete and effective measures” in the effort to deal with the many accusations of misconduct involving sexual abuse, to include that of adults who have come […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Fresh off the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, we could be facing this nightmare again next week. This time, Wisconsin should be better prepared for the impact on the state’s federal workforce located here in the Badger state. The standoff between the Trump administration and opponents […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor When will someone yell “uncle”? You know, that familiar word that indicates when you’ve had enough, give up, or you’re willing to walk away. Right now, the country is waiting to see who will blink first regarding the monetary demands for the infamous border wall…Donald Trump, Democrats, Republicans, […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor As 2018 nears an end, we can’t help but wonder about the future of our nation. In the less than two years of a Trump presidency, the country is experiencing our third government shutdown this year. Due to the constant barrage of resignations, social media missteps, Russia probes, […]

Legislatively Speaking By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Everyone Needed to Stop GOP Assault on Democracy Last week was one for the history books.  Members of the state Republican Party, in an effort to thwart the decision of voters in Wisconsin’s November general election, drastically blurred the lines of separation of powers. In the cloak of […]