Category: Education

Face Masks Made Mandatory on All UW Campuses This Fall Face masks will be mandatory inside all University of Wisconsin campus buildings statewide under a policy adopted unanimously Thursday by the Board of Regents after interim President Tommy Thompson said there was no way to open safely amid the coronavirus…

from Blogging Blue’s Twitter feed:

Often when writers want to overcome push back to wearing masks, they bring up the initial refusals to wear seat belts as they were introduced in American automobiles. This really isn’t an accurate analogy. Yes seat belts were inconvenient and the earliest version uncomfortable. But technology over came these two…

Something completely different to share with you today. From my email inbox, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee is going to offer an online course in July and covers some of the history of the City of Milwaukee. So here are the details: UWM is offering a free online class…

After an amazingly adroit failure at selecting a new president for the University of Wisconsin system, the Board of Regents selected former Governor Tommy Thompson to act as the interim president. And the reception to the announcement among officialdom has been for the most part positive if maybe a bit…

Now that President Donald Trump has made Juneteenth Day famous… This would have been the 49th Anniversary of Juneteenth Day Street Festival in Milwaukee, had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are numerous activities and events around the city to commemorate. And for the first time, both…

W-a-a-a-a-a-y back in the day, I attended a Catholic parochial elementary school. We had seven teachers for eight classes…the choir director came in to teach music…but we had no art teacher…we had no library. But at that time Milwaukee channel 10, WMVS, (owned and operated by the Milwaukee Vocational School…

Remember just a few weeks ago, when the Republican leadership in Madison was touting their acumen in recovering the Wisconsin economy and a resulting projected $800 million surplus in the coming budget? And after putting the required $200 million or whatever into the rainy day fund they needed to cut…

And no, I am not suggesting this just because a number of prominent Republicans in Washington are self-quarantined…but as a show of confidence that we have safe and effective testing for the disease. The president should sit at his desk in the Oval Office, roll up his sleeve, have the…

Just got called out on Facebook because I didn’t provide any information on the candidates. Well that’s an impossible task since your ballot will be unique depending on your location and who is running for your local races. But here’s where you find out who is on your ballot: What’s…