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Celebrating Sunshine Week with Openness Awards

As part of national Sunshine Week (sunshineweek. org), March 15-21, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council has named the winners of its 20th annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees. These...
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Thanks to those who braved the storm

“Wisconsinites, as always, are helpers by nature, so please take good care, look out for each other, and take care of one another,” Governor Tony Evers in his statement declaring a state of emergency prior to last weekend’s severe winter storm. A deadly combination of snow and strong winds blew through Wisconsin over the past weekend. In its wake, communities in Central Wisconsin reported...

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Congress needs to hold Post Office accountable

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” In 1914, that inscription was placed on the James A. Farley Post Office building in Manhattan. For decades it has been the unofficial motto of the Postal Service. It evokes the high ideals that many in the Postal Service still hold dear and strive to maintain. The...

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Your right to news and information is under attack

Good journalism is usually unpopular, because it drags into the sunshine things those with vested in...

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Bill would bypass patient protections

Even well-intentioned efforts can have negative consequences. That is the case with AB 598, a bill passed last month by the WisconsinAssembly impacting people who don’t have a power of attorney for healthcare named. The intent of the bill is to speed the process to get patients who are incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves out of hospital beds and into nursing home or communi...

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Support educational farm stay bill

Wisconsin legislators should support a bill that would open the door for more local control and revenue opportunities for Wisconsin’s farm families. Under current law, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection issues licenses to and regulates campgrounds, and a person may not manage or operate a campground without such a license. According to the Legislative Reference Burea...

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Put the brakes on self-driving vehicles

Wisconsin legislators need to put the brakes on a plan to use Wisconsin residents as crash test dummies and the state’s roads as test-tracks for untested technology. Rep. Dave Maxey, R-New Berlin, has called for Wisconsin to open the door to having fully autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. As reported in the Feb. 4 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Maxey testified in support of legislati...

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