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‘Beating our head against the wall’ pushing Legislature to legalize pot. //end headline wrapper ?> A joint. (Pixabay License). While ending cannabis prohibition remains a key ambition of many Badger State residents, their toolbox of strategies may need to change. Advocates like Eric Marsch, of Southeastern Wisconsin NORML, a pro-cannabis organization, are beginning to re-focus their efforts away from the state level. “For so long we’d been beating our head against the wall at the state level,” Marsch told  Wisconsin Examiner. “I think that trying to refocus on the local level...

MADISON - People injured on the job in Wisconsin haven’t seen an increase in benefits in four years because of political disputes over the state’s workers' compensation system. Wisconsin lawmakers for decades took the advice of a panel of labor and management representatives to decide how to run the system and how much to pay injured workers. That approach has broken down in recent years. Republicans who control the Legislature have been unable to agree among themselves on workers' compensation for most of the last decade. With a new legislative session underway, lawmakers will once agai...

One provision would expand vaccination to everyone by March, DHS says bill doesn't address "critical limitation." //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. photo by Lisa Ferdinando. U.S. Secretary of Defense, (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons Two bills that would impose new requirements on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination program sailed through an Assembly Health Committee public hearing Wednesday and could head to the Assembly floor as soon as next week. One measure, AB-4, requires the state Department of Health...