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When Chase Binnie was a student, he studied for a time in Venezuela, which most observers agree today is run by an authoritarian regime.

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The school districts of Sauk County and the Sauk County Health Department are working together to support the students and families we serve, advance our shared educational goals, and reduce the risks our communities face associated with COVID-19.  

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #80 last week, creating the Governor’s Task Force on Broadband Access.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael R. Ozanne released a lengthy statement last week, acknowledging the need to reckon with the legacy of slavery and social injustice, but also taking a stance defending the role of law and order in combating violent crime.  

“I guess my ancestors were slaves,” says Alfred Randolph. “I always assumed it. My grandma said she was Geechee.”

The Gullah Geechee people descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations on the lower Atlantic coast.

Sauk County government will not enact or enforce face coverings due to COVID-19.

By Howard Hardee

For Wisconsin Watch

Having posed a series of increasingly paranoid-sounding questions about the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Appleton City Council member William Siebers cleared his throat, preparing for the most outlandish yet.