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‘He shouldn’t have had to die’: COVID-19 infects half of Wisconsin inmates, five times the overall state rate Prisoners lack space and some say rules to curb COVID-19 are unevenly enforced February 13, 2021 8:52 AM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Posted: Signs and posters are left outside the Wisconsin governor’s mansion in Maple Bluff, Wis., on June 18, 2020, as part of a “Drive to Decarcerate” event. Those attending urged Gov. Tony Evers to release inmates from Wisconsin’s overcrowded prisons to slow the spread of COVID-19. Before the p...

Madison in the Sixties – In Memoriam, part 2 –  business leaders Madison native Thomas E. Brittingham Jr., son of the great lumberman/philanthropist, and a  founding trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, suffers a fatal heart attack at age sixty- one while driving near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, on April 16, 1960. A member of the campus Ku Klux Klan interfraternity in the early 1920s, Brittingham became president of the Research Foundation in 1955 and oversaw its successful investment strategy. Two leading businessmen take their own lives in 1961— one due to fail...

Madison in the Sixties – In Memoriam, University of Wisconsin The namesakes of two of the three South East dorms passed away this decade. Economics professor emeritus Edwin E. Witte, former department chair and namesake of the second southeast dorm, died May 20, 1960 at age seventy- three. Witte began his UW career as a teaching assistant in the history department, became an economics lecturer, and worked eleven years as head of the state’s Legislative Reference Bureau. He became a full professor of economics in 1933. Two years later, he was the principal author of the Social Security Act...

December is usually a special time in Wisconsin’s grand Capitol. Instead, the Capitol is deserted, eerily empty and silent, closed since March by the COVID-19 pestilence that has sickened, hospitalized and killed. This year, only the 5-foot, 5-inch gold-gilded statue atop the Capitol—her arm extending eastward—had immunity. When you spend more than 30 years covering state officials and decisions they make, you learn the Capitol’s December traditions. But this December, you walk through the Capitol and lament what is missing. There should be ... a huge Capitol Christmas tre...

December is usually a special time in Wisconsin’s grand Capitol. Instead, the Capitol is deserted, eerily empty and silent, closed since March by the COVID-19 pestilence that has sickened, hospitalized and killed. This year, only the 5-foot, 5-inch gold-gilded statue atop the Capitol—her arm extending eastward—had immunity. When you spend more than 30 years covering state officials and decisions they make, you learn the Capitol’s December traditions. But this December, you walk through the Capitol and lament what is missing. There should be ... a huge Capitol Christmas tre...