Gov. Evers, U.S. Sen. Baldwin Send Joint Letter to NTIA Urging Immediate Action to Release Critical Guidance and Funding to Support High-Speed Internet Expansion Efforts Statewide

Gov. Tony Evers, together with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), last week, sent a joint letter to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Arielle Roth, urging the NTIA to immediately issue delayed Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program non-deployment guidance and promptly begin releasing the full remaining funds allocated to states, including a total over $300 million owed to Wisconsin.

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Building Brave Spaces or Safe Spaces: Dilemmas facing History teachers in a post-Gaza, post Bondi World: An Australian History Teacher's Perspective.

It was the Whitlam government who established, more than 50 years ago, the pluralist, multi-cultural and diverse society that is modern Australia and in which, to date, most Australians have taken pride.  The assumption that immigrants to Australia need not divest their loyalty to and love for family and community from whence they came in order to build a new life as Australians, was fundamental to Whitlam’s understanding of what multiculturalism entails.

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Gov. Evers Signs Bipartisan Bill to Help Address Statewide Workforce Shortages by Removing Barriers for “Dreamers”

Press Release, April 9, 2026
MILWAUKEE — Gov. Tony Evers today joined local advocates and stakeholders at Nuevo Mercado El Rey in Milwaukee to take action on Assembly Bill 759, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 240, a bipartisan bill that helps address Wisconsin’s generational workforce challenges by removing unnecessary barriers to employment for “Dreamers,” recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, who are already living and working in Wisconsin.

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An Inside Look into the Political Perspectives of Young People - Kana Rasmussen

“Teenagers care passionately about many issues currently happening, and have a desire to make real change. When I talk to my peers at Memorial, they express concern about war in Iran, ICE agents terrorizing immigrants, and education cuts. Kids our age have been taught the pillars our nation were built on and they see them being torn down, which concerns them. “

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Reading, Writing & Resistance: Our High School ICE Protest

Standing in the clump of people, snow in my shoes and fingers freezing around the paper sign I had been handed on my way out the door, I finally had the chance to realize how incredibly proud of my school I was at that moment. There were over a hundred kids, maybe two hundred at the peak of the afternoon, all talking, discussing, raising their voices, holding their signs, faces and fingers growing red from the cold.

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Statement from Ken Martin - Chair, Democratic National Committee

This weekend, in Minneapolis, a federal immigration agent murdered Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for our veterans at the VA hospital. We all watched it play out from dozens of different angles, filmed by bystanders on their cell phones in the freezing cold. And despite the lies from the government, we all had the same takeaway: this was an execution.

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