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Wisconsin State Legislature sees record number of female lawmakers We are on a trajectory that has been increasing the number of women in office, but that evolution is slow, political science professor says
Wisconsin s new Legislature will tackle a number of issues likely to be controversial in spite of new promises of bipartisanship. Partisan divisions have plagued the Assembly and the Senate.
In 2021, Wisconsin elected the highest number of female lawmakers to its state legislature in history.
According to the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics, there are 41 women currently serving in the Wisconsin legislature, which will constitute about 31% of the state’s lawmakers over the next two years.
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Small donors played a pivotal role in financing both Democratic and Republican campaigns in the 2020 election. And with Donald Trump in Florida and President Joe Biden taking his place in the White House, it remains unclear whether small donations will continue to pour in for either party.
On Jan. 20, Biden took office and Vice President Kamala Harrisswore in Georgia Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), establishing the Democratic Party’s control of the White House and Senate on the same day. And as the GOP’s reign in Washington comes to an end, so have its relationships with some corporate power players who have historically been influential supporters of the Republican Party.
Hollywood stars directly and indirectly helped sell billions of dollars in war bonds and more.
Here s What You Need to Know: Along with the brave men and women overseas, the motion picture industry served admirably in their own way during World War II.
World War II came to the Hollywood motion picture studios, the “Dream Factories” as they were sometimes called, the day after Pearl Harbor.
“Hollywood became a military camp. Within a day … studio trucks and drivers were transporting army troops and equipment, studio arsenals were stripped of prop (weapons) and ammunition to fortify undersupplied posts along the West Coast …” wrote Bruce T. Torrence, in his book,
Care home criticised by coroner after resident choked to death on a marshmallow
Patrick Casey, 41, died after he was given chopped up marshmallows at his north London care home, despite being on a strict pureed diet, an inquest into his death heard
11:00, 12 JAN 2021
Patrick Casey on St Patrick s Day, with his mother Bridie (Image: Handout)
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