As you tend to your garden during the warm summer months, it’s important to be aware of a peculiar and unwelcome visitor: the invasive jumping worm. These worms, also known as Alabama jumpers, Jersey wriggles, wood eels, crazy worms, snake worms, and crazy snake worms, gained their name because of their unique behavior. They have …
A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the state’s 173-year-old abortion ban does not apply to consensual medical abortions, allowing a lawsuit challenging the ban to proceed. The judge, Diane Schlipper, stated that the ban’s legal language does not explicitly use the term “abortion,” therefore only prohibiting attacks on pregnant women in an attempt to …
The governors of Wisconsin possess a unique power known as “partial veto,” which allows them to edit legislation by removing letters, numbers, and punctuation. This week, Gov. Tony Evers used this power in a creative way, extending a public school funding increase for an additional 400 years. In the two-year budget bill, the Democratic governor …
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) utilized his line-item veto power to enhance school funding in the state for the next four centuries, a move that has left Republicans furious due to the clever use of executive power. In his veto, the governor removed certain words, numbers, and a hyphen from the state’s new budget. This …
A federal judge has issued a ruling against Enbridge, a Canadian energy company, ordering them to remove certain sections of an oil pipeline located on tribal lands in Wisconsin. In addition to this, Enbridge has been mandated to pay the tribe more than $5 million as compensation for trespassing. The Bad River Band of Lake …