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But agency recommends reforms regarding alcohol consumption and romantic relationships between Guard members

View Comments Responding to an investigation by the Cap Times and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a key Congressional leader says she will hold hearings this summer to address the chronic problem of sexual assault in the National Guard.  “I am very troubled by the fact that we don’t have any oversight of the National Guard when U.S. taxpayer money is being spent, and we have women in the National Guard who are being physically, sexually abused,” said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat and chair of the personnel subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. Meanwhile, ...

Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. April 19, 2021. Editorial: Wait and see right approach on Foxconn Monday’s announcement that Gov. Tony Evers had negotiated a new deal with Foxconn wasn’t entirely a shock. The state had long expressed dissatisfaction with the company’s follow through on the original 2017 deal, and there had been strong signals it would be significantly altered. According to Evers, the new agreement “works for everyone.” That’s an optimistic appraisal given Foxconn’s history, and one that Wisconsin can only hope is accurate. To recap, Fox...

Legislators need to act on sexual assault reforms to protect National Guard troops Perhaps not since the civil unrest of the 1960s and early ‘70s has the value of the Wisconsin National Guard been more evident. Last year, the Guard found itself maintaining the peace on the streets of Kenosha and Madison. During the pandemic, Guard personnel helped augment seriously depleted ranks of poll workers, and they manned COVID 19 testing stations throughout the state. And lest we forget that units are still being deployed to assist our Armed forces abroad in places like Afghanistan. Clearly, the ...

By one of them, dean strand. and dean, thank you so much for joining me. oh, boy, i have 17 hours of questions for you, but i will start with some of the most significant developments since the series really started getting the traction, and that is that a juror has come out on the "today" show via the filmmaker saying that this juror was not comfortable, and did not think that steven avery was guilty, and felt coerced into i it, and they were trading votes in the jury room, and they feared for their safety if they exonerated him saying that they were worried about what the police might do. do...