STATE/NATIONAL
Johnson says federal agencies stonewalling on vaccine injuries data
This week U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson quickened the pace of his aggressive pursuit of Covid-19 vaccine injury data from the Biden administration, saying the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Health and Human Services agency were refusing to comply with congressional demands for data.
Calls for vaccine compensation reform go unheeded for quarter century
Almost from the beginning, experts residing both outside and inside the federal government recognized serious problems with the national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which Congress established in 1986 to provide a non-adversarial, fast, and fair process to compensate the victims of vaccine injuries and their families.
Government’s firewall against vaccine compensation: federal courts
It was a huge win at the time for the victims of vaccine injuries and their families — a decision a few years back that a suite of early vaccinations likely caused the death of an infant by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and that the child’s family deserved compensation.
In vaccine court, similar cases, different outcomes
The persistence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, in the United States has long been a medical mystery — though rates are down, they remain much higher in high-income North America than in many regions — but over time the scientific community has been slowly solving the puzzle, piece …
Supreme Court is brawling again, if figuratively
So far it’s a bit of verbal back-and-forth and name-calling, with no allegations of one Supreme Court justice trying to choke another, as was the case in 2011, but it’s getting pretty fiery nonetheless around the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
728 X 90 AD
The U.S. Vaccine Court: A stacked deck against the victims of vaccines?
Most Americans are unaware of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, or the vaccine court, as it is commonly known, one of the only ways victims and the families of victims can receive compensation for vaccine-related injuries and deaths.
Progressive academics urge Biden to ignore Supreme Court
Two prominent professors have written an open letter to President Joe Biden, urging him and his administration to ignore recent Supreme Court decisions and instead opt to carry out their own constitutional interpretations.
Dittrich, Knodl introduce bill to ban biological males in women’s sports
State Rep. Barbara Dittrich (R-Oconomowoc) and Sen. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown) have introduced two bills they say will save women’s sports by prohibiting transgender women and girl athletes from competing with biological women and girls in high school and college sports in the state.
Virulent strain of avian flu leads to death for millions of birds
A lethal strain of bird flu has swept across the United States the past two years, leading to the deaths of tens of millions of birds, and the virus is back this spring, or, more accurately, it is still with us, meaning it survived the bitter winter months.
Legislature approves spring referenda on bail reform and welfare work requirements
Both the state Senate and Assembly have approved putting two referenda questions on the April spring ballot, one a proposed constitutional amendment to reform what the GOP calls a broken bail system and the other an advisory referendum to require able-bodied childless adults to look for work to receive public …
728 X 90 AD
CDC monitoring possible link between Pfizer jab and ischemic strokes
News analysis The new year wasn’t ringing in too well for the Covid vaccines, as the first weeks of 2023 saw the CDC suddenly investigating whether the bivalent Pfizer vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic strokes in older Americans, while new studies continued to underscore the heightened risk of …
Study: Worker housing shortage likely to increase over next 10 years
A new study has found that, due to unfavorable demographics and the recent slowdown in home construction, Wisconsin could be facing a severe workforce housing shortage that will grow increasingly worse over the next decade.
Policy Forum: State and local tax burden falls to new low
Local governments in Wisconsin perpetually complain about levy limits, but — whatever the merits of their argument — those limits have helped drive the state’s tax burden to its lowest level on record, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
Democrats boast about bringing home the bacon
News analysis While Wisconsin Republicans were critiquing the $1.85-trillion omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last week and signed by the president, state Democrats tacked the opposite way, boasting about the amounts of community funding dollars they were bringing to the state and to their districts.
As winter illnesses rise, so do mask controversies
News analysis ’Tis the season for colds and flu and increased Covid-19 infections, which also means it’s the season for school masking controversies and possible lawsuits. Over the past month, as traditional winter illnesses have begun to take hold, and rising Covid infections have pushed community infection levels from low …
728 X 90 AD
WEATHER SPONSORED BY
250 X 250 AD
250 X 250 AD
E-Editions
250 X 250 AD
Events
250 X 250 AD