| Mar 10, 2021 | Environment / Health|Food / FarmingIn late February, Wisconsin held a wolf hunt. Hunters shot over 200 wolves — 82 percent more than the quota allowed. The hunt occurred during wolves’ breeding season. It’s likely some of the wolves were pregnant, but we don’t know how many. As a result, the effect on...
| Oct 28, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyVoter mobilization is not easy in Metcalfe Park, a majority-Black neighborhood in Milwaukee scarred by poverty, racism, disenfranchisement, and neglect. “I don’t believe in voting,” one young Black woman told Melody McCurtis, who’s been going door-to-door to get out...
| Oct 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedFor family farmers like Hans Breitenmoser, the odds of catching COVID-19 on the job are slim. Social distancing is not exactly a challenge when you’re farming more than 1,300 acres in rural Wisconsin. But Breitenmoser is one of many Wisconsin farmers who are showing...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlthough the United States hails itself as a bastion of representative democracy, voting regulations suppress the vote even in a normal year — and even more so during the pandemic. Texas, for example, only allows absentee voting if voters are 65 or older, disabled, or...
| Sep 2, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.” Doctors concluded that King’s heart had aged due to the stress and pressure endured throughout his 13-year civil...
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