By LaKeshia N. Myers There’s an old adage that says, “all politics are local”—this is true, especially during spring election season in Wisconsin. While gubernatorial, state legislative and federal races are always fall elections (with the exception of the occasional special election), most elected officials focus on doing the work associated with their respective offices […]
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Trump’s Final Blow to Patients With HIV
By Guy Anthony The day before Donald Trump left the White House, his administration dealt one final, brutal blow to some of America’s most vulnerable patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a policy that, if implemented, will put numerous lifesaving drugs off-limits to Medicare recipients. Medicare provides health insurance to 63 million […]
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Milwaukee Jewish Community Relations Council Hosts Virtual Discussion, Highlights Relationship Between Antisemitism and White Nationalism
By Hayley Crandall Eric Ward, activist and executive director at the Western States Center, shared his expertise on the relationship between white nationalism and antisemitism during the Milwaukee Jewish Community Relations Council “Deconstructing White Supremacy” virtual discussion last week. “In short, if white supremacy was built upon the paper of racism in America, white nationalism […]
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Time is Money: Exploring the 21st Century Poll Tax Levied by the Georgia G.O.P.
By LaKeshia N. Myers When I was a classroom teacher, to explain the inequity of poll taxes and other ballot-blocking measures that were used in the Jim Crow south, I would give my students the Louisiana voter literacy test. Students had 10 minutes to answer the questions and undoubtedly all of them would fail—because the […]
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To Filibuster or Not to Filibuster?
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Should This Still Be A Question If you turn on any local or cable news show right now, you’re likely to hear people talking about the “filibuster.” The word, which is derived from a Dutch term for “freebooter” and the Spanish “filibusteros,” which is used to define the […]
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The American Rescue Plan Can Invigorate our City and Change Lives in Milwaukee
By Mayor Tom Barrett On March 11 President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act. Most Americans are familiar with the plan’s third $1,400 stimulus check, extended unemployment benefits and other direct assistance to families. For cities like Milwaukee this same law provides an unprecedented opportunity. The money available for local initiatives […]
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The Give and Take of Police Reform
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor It’s Not Perfect But It’s Progress Last year, I came across a report entitled “The Evolution of Modern Use-of-Force Policies and the Need for Professionalism in Policing” written by Arthur Rizer and Emily Mooney. The first paragraph of the report read as follows, “The American people delegate to […]
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Are Your Edges on Life Support?: Weaving Our Way into a World of Trouble
Last week, the state assembly passed Assembly Bill 12, which specifies that a person does not need to obtain a barbering or cosmetology license in order to perform natural hair braiding; something that already exists in state statute. Braiding is defined in the bill as, “twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, crocheting, or braiding hair by […]
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Measured Response Required By Both Sides
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor State Bill Seeks to Punish Those That Defund Police This week, there is an ongoing jury selection in the case of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. You may remember that Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the neck of George Floyd. For what seemed like an eternity, millions […]
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In Times like These, We Need Common Sense
Having grown up in the Baptist church, I have an affinity for music from the “golden age” of gospel. As a child, my mother and grandmother, would listen to the music of Clara Ward, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and James Cleveland. But no group held more esteem than Albertina Walker and the Caravans; and my grandmother’s […]
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