School board recalls; nursing home deaths; GOP redistricting maps; PFAS action; jail’s letter ban
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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘A slap in the face’: Wisconsin imprisons 1 in 36 Black adults, highest U.S. rate
Color of justice; dark history at Indigenous boarding schools; power of vaccination; misinforming chiropractors; PFAS-shuttered water wells
Posted inJustice & Safety
Wisconsin imprisons 1 in 36 Black adults. No state has a higher rate.
A new Sentencing Project report confirms the state’s deep racial disparities in incarceration, which one advocate calls ‘a slap in the face.’
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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘Something has to be done’: Life along a toxic waterway
Polluted waters; knowledge void in partisan election review; solar’s big potential; vanishing campus disability accommodations
Posted inEnvironment
‘Something has to be done’: Living along Madison’s Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways.
The latest contaminants of concern in the creek draining Madison’s East Side: PFAS, hazardous chemicals being flagged across Wisconsin.
Posted inEducation
Wisconsin’s special ed system: High stress, sparse state funding
Over the past five decades, state support for special ed has dwindled, and staff shortages and turnover make it difficult to provide required services.
Posted inOpinion
Your Right to Know: Bill Lueders named to National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame
Bill Lueders was a young journalist at Madison’s Isthmus newspaper in the late 1980s when he learned the value of public records. Lueders wanted to see the complaints filed by citizens against the Madison police.
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Wisconsin Weekly: COVID-19 surge ‘feels like Groundhog Day’ to exhausted Fox Valley doctors and nurses
Inside a COVID unit; GOP redistricting strategy; food shortages in schools; children’s college savings programs; unemployment system overhaul
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Wisconsin Weekly: Criminalizing kids: Wisconsin schools topped nation in calling police on Native American students
Student police referrals high; COVID-19 spreading among Wisconsin kids; Milwaukee’s killing epidemic; tribes sue to halt wolf hunt; restoring March’s legacy
Posted inEducation, Justice & Safety
Wisconsin schools called police on students at twice the national rate — for Native students, it was the highest
School officials refer thousands of children to the police each year. In Wisconsin, children with disabilities or who are Black, Latino or Native bear the brunt of it.
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Wisconsin Weekly: Many long-term care staff in Wisconsin reject vaccine, despite risks
Unvaxxed nursing home workers; Wisconsin’s ‘shadow governor;’ custody rules endanger abused parents; refugees decry conditions; rocky start for election probe
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety
He beat her repeatedly. Family court tried to give him joint custody of their children.
Wisconsin is considered a leader in the movement to treat fathers as equal caregivers when parents separate. Shared parenting is usually better for children — but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.