Stories tagged: "opinion"

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Editor's Letter From the Editor—Thanks for Making Our First Year a Success

UpNorthNews launched one year ago to highlight Wisconsin people, places, issues, and all the things that make our state worth caring for.

Pat Kreitlow Pat Kreitlow December 31, 2020 10:03 am CST
Opinion
Opinion The Affordable Care Act Saved Our Family When Our Daughter Got Sick. Please Protect It.

Scrapping healthcare reform and making families insecure is a bad idea made worse during a pandemic.

Brady Minter Brady Minter October 30, 2020 9:50 am CDT
Opinion Closed sign
Opinion Pub Owner: GOP Inaction on COVID Forced Me to Close for the Winter. Now, I’m a Candidate.

Kirk Bangstad: Republican mismanagement hurt businesses up north. Opponent says ‘new normal’ returned quickly.

Kirk Bangstad Kirk Bangstad October 16, 2020 9:24 am CDT
Commentary Trump and Coronavirus
Commentary Beyond Politics: What Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis Means to Wisconsin

If even a president can catch the coronavirus, will some people change the behaviors responsible for a spike in cases and deaths?

Pat Kreitlow Pat Kreitlow October 2, 2020 9:25 am CDT
Commentary Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) stands between Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) during a news briefing following a Feb. 14, 2020 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyivv, Ukraine. (Shutterstock)
Commentary Outagamie County Exec Compares Johnson’s Misuse of Senate Committee to McCarthy

Tom Nelson says the Twitter age won’t save Ron Johnson.

Tom Nelson Tom Nelson September 8, 2020 6:59 am CDT

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Registered nurse Kay Hartman at N.E.W. Community Clinic in Green Bay prepare to administer second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to several of the clinic’s medical staff and volunteers on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo by Christina Lieffring) Coronavirus Wisconsin Passes a Half-Million Fully Vaccinated as Third Vaccine Arrives
A sexual assault evidence collection kit. Politics Reform Supporters Hope GOP Won’t Derail Bill Addressing Rape Kit Backlogs Again
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin. (Photo provided) Infrastructure Baldwin Now Heads Senate Panel Key to Expanding Broadband Across Rural U.S.
Image from the WI Department of Natural Resources website Natural Resources Too Fast, Too Many: Ojibwe Bands Want Wolf Hunts Better Managed or Stopped
Opinion Kanye West makes his first presidential campaign appearance, July 19, 2020 in North Charleston, S.C.
Opinion BLOC’s Angela Lang: Kanye’s Campaign Is a Racist Republican Ploy

Trump supporters are preying on the Black community in a cynical effort to siphon votes away from Biden.

Angela Lang Angela Lang August 7, 2020 3:17 pm CDT
Editor's Letter The empty pedestal after protesters took down the Forward statue on the grounds for the state Capitol June 24 in Madison. (Photo © Andy Manis)
Editor's Letter Statues Can Be Replaced. Lives Cannot.

Our comfort level should be challenged if real change is to occur.

Pat Kreitlow Pat Kreitlow June 25, 2020 9:36 am CDT