by Katherine Huggins | Apr 6, 2022 | Politics
Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Jon Ossoff of Georgia introduced legislation in January that would ban for-profit corporations from operating political action committees in an effort to reduce corporate influence in Congress. “There is so much corporate...
by Julia Mueller | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — More than 100 life-size orange statues of women are scattered around the National Mall, clustered in the gardens at the Smithsonian Castle and tucked inside the Natural History and Air and Space museums. The women hold globes, notebooks, tools, brains —...
by Courtney Degen | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
Dane County has joined a nationwide relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, but the immunocompromised and their doctors worry the absence of guidelines puts those with vulnerable immune systems at increased risk. Dr. Jeannina Smith, medical director of the Transplant...
by Ariel Gans | Mar 21, 2022 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Erinn Baldeschwiler has been battling stage four metastatic breast cancer for two years. Two months after her diagnosis, the 50-year-old writer and patient advocate began immunotherapy. But in October, her cancer became treatment-resistant and she...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Education
Angela Harris is a first-grade teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, a public Black immersion school in Milwaukee, and one of the first six activists in residence for the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). Harris said her activism, which has...
by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Environmental activist and singer-songwriter Carole King criticized the U.S. Forest Service’s use of logging as a way to combat wildfires at a House hearing Wednesday, saying that logging operations contribute to carbon emissions. “I...
