YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW / BILL LUEDERS Last January, a person involved in local emergency management asked the Office of Open Government, part of the state Justice Department, whether emergency preparedness coalitions run by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) are subject to the state’s open meetings and open records laws. The answer to […]
Category: Opinion
OP-ED: Employers, just say No to the payroll tax holiday
As of August 31, non-Federal employers have the option of not taking social security taxes from employee paychecks to give workers more spending money in this oh-so-odd year. The plan details are wonky, but an employer still has to pay their share of the Social Security tax (6.2% of the pay). Still, the employee will […]
Opinion: Wanggaard asks Evers for more National Guard units
Dear Governor Evers, Two people are dead. Another was shot. This violence could have been prevented. Last night, the Kenosha County Board of Supervisors asked for an additional 1,500 National Guard members for Kenosha tonight. I second that request and implore you to fulfill it. Without massive resources, violence will only escalate. To the extent […]
Job seekers… please answer the phone
You say you want a job, but your actions tell us otherwise. Why do I say that? Because for the last three weeks, we had better than 80 percent of the people we were scheduled to interview for customer service jobs that paid well no-show when the time came. These are people that submitted a […]
My 2 cents on subscribing to local media
Sister Margaret was a visionary. I was in my 7th-grade classroom at St. Ed’s sometime in 1977 and had JUST answered (correctly I must add) a current events question from a Milwaukee Journal student quiz. “Who is the author of the comic strip Doonesbury?” For anyone that remembers the Green Sheet, it was the only […]
Letter to the editor: What it’s like to have COVID
I wore a mask. My customers usually wore a mask. When I went out places, some wore a mask. I never get sick, had no flu in decades. But I still wore mine or distanced. Then, 12 days ago I got sick. I couldn’t smell anything. My appetite disappeared. So weird. Then, congestion came and […]
Letter to the Editor: The complexities of reforming the City of Racine’s law enforcement agencies
Although I agree that some officers of the Racine Police Department undoubtedly need to undergo resocialization training as it pertains to their dealings with the city’s Black population, I think it is imperative that the training is facilitated by local specialists. Let me be clear from the start, this applies to officers of all races […]
Opinion: We need your help
The Racine County Eye news website has earned the trust of over 457,000 readers and generated over 1.4 million page views in 2020. This represents a 56 percent increase over the same period in 2019. I have always wanted people to connect through story. But this is also bittersweet. COVID-19 giveth and COVID-19 taketh away. […]
OPINION: What Julian Castro’s exit from presidential election means
They said, “If you was white, you’d be alright, If you was brown, stick around, But as you’s black, oh, brother, get back, get back, get back” -Big Bill Broonzy Chester Todd Jr., 75 The disappearance of Julian Castro from the circle of Democratic Party Presidential hopefuls guarantees that the next President of the United […]
Op-Ed: Chancellor Ford Discusses Talent Pipeline For Wisconsin And Beyond
**Editor’s Note: This op-ed was submitted by UW-Parkside. I have great news to share: A record number of students, 388 to be exact, were eligible to participate in our recent Winter Commencement. More students have graduated from UW-Parkside in the past decade than during any other 10-year period in the university’s history. In addition to […]
OPINION: Why local news websites need your financial support
These are interesting times for journalism. I just got back from a conference sponsored by LION Publishers this weekend. The organization — made up of hundreds of independent news publishers — helped us understand how we can grow our business, serve our readers better, and become more efficient. I have to say I couldn’t be […]
Editorial: Why I believe in solutions-based journalism
By Denise Lockwood Ten years ago my life changed after being laid off from the Kenosha News. I was reminded of this today by Facebook in a memory. At the time, I thought it was the end of the world but it turns out that it wasn’t. I had been writing for the Kenosha News for […]
Opinion: Report to the Community from Mount Pleasant Trustee Ram Bhatia
Greetings all. As we fast approach the upcoming fall season, I hope everyone had great summer. While we all have been enjoying from 1 st Fridays to weekly beer gardens, and many more summer fun activities around our community, the Mount Pleasant village board and the staff have been working to continue to move the […]
Opinion: Racine Branch NAACP President issues statement regarding Tyrese West incident
The vision statement of the NAACP is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race. The recent shooting of Tyrese West on June 15, 2019 by a Mount Pleasant Police Officer highlights the fact that we still have much work to do. This incident shines light on […]
Opinion: The Highway KR Project – The Expendables
There once was a City and a Village, who dreamed of glory. The City hopes to return to its former days of being an industrial king, and the Village of being somebody—anybody? In 2017, County Executive Jonathan Delagrave and Mount Pleasant Village President, David DeGroot saw their chance for the fairy tale when an international […]
