Several provisions that killed the Legislature’s first proposed COVID-19 package this year now passed as individual bills.
The governor's climate change task force pointed to the historically detrimental effects of urban freeways and ports on communities of color in a 2020 report. But his administration is pressing ahead anyway.
Democratic legislators spoke in the chamber Tuesday about the role Rush Limbaugh played in spreading disinformation, most recently about the coronavirus and the Nov. 3 election, which prompted the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol on Jan. 6.
State constitution would bar discrimination on the basis of gender as the original ERA, but also offer protection in many more ways.
About 90% of children who commit crimes have significant trauma histories, according to a state trauma-informed care coordinator. But the system is not set up with treatment and rehabilitation as priorities, explained childhood trauma survivors and experts. Wisconsin’s governor wants to change that.
Police defend the controversial doctrine while activists and a former Republican Assembly candidate criticize it.
Task Force on Racial Disparities begins discussion on the controversial legal doctrine during a Kenosha meeting.
Charges filed almost eight months after assaults caught on camera.
“If somebody believes they are a victim of discrimination in their workplace, the final say on whether our civil rights laws are properly enforced is a lower court judge,” Daniel Goldberg, legal director of the nonprofit advocacy group Alliance for Justice, told COURIER.
The use of a no-knock warrant led to the death of Breonna Taylor last March in Kentucky.
