When’s the Last Time You Dropped by the Library?

In the same span of time it takes to read these words, the lives of 75 families in the Marathon County community of Ringle, were forever changed. On the afternoon of April 17, severe thunderstorms bulldozed their way across the state. They brought with them flooding, large hail, lightning and high winds. Each of these brings its own capacity for devastation and harm. The storms also spawned ...

In Milwaukee County, 269 citizens had their voting rights taken from them last week, because of a manufactured crisis within the U.S. Postal Service administration, to prioritize penny pinching, over providing a vital public service. As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Paulina Gutiérrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said her office received 269 mail-in...