Ajay Sethi, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Master of Public Health program, discusses COVID-19 and the conspiracy theories that surround it.
I am glad that I have chosen America to be my home. And am most honored and thankful to those who have given their lives and are still offering their service to serve our country.
Many issues remain to be resolved on how the loan forgiveness phase of the Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to work.
This week, new guidance has been issued on what happens if an employer tries to return a laid-off or furloughed employee to his or her old job and the employee decides not to come back. The Small Business Administration and Treasury Department warn that a good faith effort to bring the employee back must be documented.
Iowa County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Koehler issued a temporary order on Wednesday to stop the destruction of public records in the form of text messages, following the filing of a civil complaint against the village of Arena.
Former Village Clerk Taylor Scott filed the complaint against the village and its records custodians a day after the Arena Village Board voted 5-1 to declare that text messages henceforth were “not subject to maintenance as a public record.” In her order, Judge Koehler found that, to the contrary, state law “appears to provide that text messages are records.”
As many Wisconsin businesses look to return to providing products and services, Gov. Tony Evers on Friday announced business-specific guidance to help keep workers, customers and families safe when the state’s “safer-at-home” order is lifted.
The brochures include general guidelines for all businesses, as well as industry-specific advice. General recommendations include making sure that employees who are sick don’t come to work, curtailing business travel whenever possible, promoting work-from-home arrangements and making sure employees have access to sanitizers and personal protective equipment when appropriate.
Five Wisconsin newsrooms have been selected to receive nearly $340,000 in grants from the Facebook Journalism Project as part of the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program, Facebook announced Thursday.
They were The Cap Times, Madison365, Wausau Pilot & Review, Wisconsin Watch and Volume One. Three of the five media outlets — Madison365, Wausau Pilot & Review and Wisconsin Watch — also received $5,000 grants from FJP in early April.
Chris White, a veteran newspaper publisher that has been with Lee Enterprises since 2013, has been named publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, the Madison newspaper announced Thursday.
The COVID-19 pandemic began causing traffic on Wisconsin’s roads to plummet even before the governor’s Safer at Home order was issued on March 24.
One lesson that has been driven home during the global COVID-19 pandemic is how interdependent and global our economy is.
The next test of voting during a pandemic will come on May 12, when voters cast ballots in the 7th Congressional District, which sprawls across 26 counties in central and northern Wisconsin.
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