Price of our Pandemic: The bill for MAGA has come due and it is time to pay up
The bill for MAGA has come due, Trump supporters. It’s time to pay up. The deferred invoice for you selling your souls is here. It’s time to pay for every incendiary campaign boast you cheered, every factless diatribe you vigorously applauded, every nonsensical...
The social burden of Consumerism: Shopping carts are not overflowing with compassion
Growing up Christian, I remember reading about Jesus saying to his students and to those who would follow him in the ways of compassion and mercy and love and justice, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do...
Coronavirus Hits Home: Milwaukee confirms first case of COVID-19 within the city
Health officials with the City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) confirmed Milwaukee’s first presumptive case of novel coronavirus, COVID-19 on March 13. The individual reportedly contracted the illness from close contact to a confirmed COVID-19 case. MHD is...
Wisconsin to challenge unconstitutional diversion of taxpayer dollars for building Trump’s Border Wall
Governor Tony Evers announced on March 4 that he authorized Attorney General Josh Kaul to join Wisconsin with a coalition of 18 other states in filing a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s illegal diversion of $3.8 billion taxpayer dollars for the...
Baba Punjab Singh: Survivor of 2012 Oak Creek Sikh Temple shooting dies from gunshot complications
A priest who survived being shot in the face and was partially paralyzed after the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was violently attacked in 2012 by a white supremacist died on March 2 from complications due to his injuries. Baba Punjab Singh was one of four people wounded...
Mass shooting at Milwaukee brewery does nothing to change Wisconsin politics over gun safety
Wisconsin’s latest mass shooting, which left six people dead at one of the largest breweries in the world, appears to have done little in the politically polarized state to budge Republicans who expanded access to guns over the past decade. On February 27, Milwaukee...