It is anyone’s guess what school will look like when it starts this fall. However, what it looks like should be decided at the local level and not in Madison or Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a set of draconian guidelines that stops just short of installing decontamination showers in the entryways of each building and placing every student in

On this beautiful Saturday afternoon, June 6, 2020, I turn on the TV and I see all of the huge masses of people trying to once and for all protest that all people, regardless of color, are all equal in every way. And my memory clicks in, about 1970, when the country was going through the same thing. I was teaching at Superior Senior High School, a totally white school, grades 10 through 12 and had

Members of the Taylor County Forestry Committee on Friday made the right call when they said “no thanks” to a proposal by a group of private property owners on Chelsea Lake to transfer ownership of additional shoreline to the county. At issue are a series of berms along the shoreline which help maintain the lake’s water level. The berms have been in place for several decades. Like many similar

For most of us, there is plenty to worry about without adding in the Climate Crisis. One good thing that staying home has given us is time to think, not only about how life is now, but how we and the climate could come out of this in much better health. Like two peas in a pod, COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis follow the same exponential accelerating curves. And although the COVID-19 curve is beginning

When people’s lives and livelihoods are on the line, pointing fingers needs to take a back seat to helping those hanging by a thread. Decades of bipartisan neglect has culminated in nearly 390,000 Wisconsin residents having no safety net after being displaced due to COVID-19 workplace shutdowns. These men and women have been betrayed by ineffective administrations and state legislators focused