An untapped resource for fighting COVID-19
“If the hospitals get overwhelmed, we’re going to need places to put people,” Ald. Tag Evers says. “We could either start from scratch and build field hospitals on soccer fields, or we can take...
View ArticleWhen should “Safer at Home” end?
Public health officials want Wisconsin to “double down” on Gov. Tony Evers’ “safer at home” order. But calls to reopen the state from the business community are growing.
View ArticlePandemic power grab
Attorney Lester Pines says Justice Rebecca Bradley’s comments about Japanese internment camps “reflected a lack of historical knowledge” but also were irrelevant to the GOP’s lawsuit seeking to...
View ArticleThousands now vaccinated, including the mayor
The end of the pandemic feels closer as thousands are now at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19. But not everyone is eligible yet.
View ArticleBooting elderly people from their homes
Without the notice required by state law, the author’s 97-year-old mother was evicted from the senior care facility where she had lived for 10 years.
View ArticleHealth department reversal puts seniors at risk
Opinion | The Wisconsin Department of Health Services revoked a fine it had imposed on a senior health care facility for an illegal eviction. The agency could provide no documents that stated a defense...
View ArticleWisconsin health official blindsided by department's about-face
The records show that Karen Timberlake, secretary-designee of the state health department, was personally involved in exchanges over this matter, which staff seemed to regard almost entirely as a...
View Article‘A sad thing that happened’
Opinion | Wisconsin health officials in a meeting with the author admit no wrongdoing and provide no further answers as to why the immediate eviction of Elaine Benz from a senior care facility was lawful.
View ArticleA new Madison
Converting some downtown state office buildings to other uses would be good for the city. What Madison needs more now than at any time since the UW enrollment boom of the 1960s is housing.
View ArticleState asking 1.4 million on Medicaid in Wisconsin to reapply
Reviewing whether about one in four Wisconsin residents still qualify for Medicaid is so complex that the state Department of Health Services will do it over a 12-month period.
View ArticleWisconsin residents are dying from alcohol abuse at unprecedented rates
In 2020, Wisconsinites died from alcohol-induced causes at a rate nearly 25% higher than the national rate. The rate tripled from 6.7 to 18.5 per 100,000 from 1999 to 2020.
View ArticleVaping down among Wisconsin teens
Since President Donald Trump signed a federal law in 2019 raising the minimum age to purchase nicotine products to 21, fewer teens say they are using tobacco and e-cigarettes.But sales to underaged...
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