“Smiles, high fives, and juice boxes”: Southside Raiders provide normalcy in pandemic Close Close Close
It is a sunny Saturday morning in the cool April air that marks the long-awaited and coming return of summer. With the large white roof of the Coliseum and Alliant Energy Center in full view just a mere football field or two away, players and their families gather at Quann Park. They’re there for the first set of games from the Southside Raiders Youth Football Program. This spring, they’re playing flag and low contact football.
This marks the first time the Raiders program has been able to put on a football game in well over a calendar year. The Raiders, like so many other youth and high school football programs in Dane County, had to suspend its 2020 fall football season due to COVID-19. With the pandemic, football was sidelined until the spread slowed and outdoor sporting events could be played safely.
The party was also dealt a setback over the weekend in the race to replace the late Rep. Ron Wright
Democrats saw their majority in the House shrink to one of the smallest margins in decades after a worse-than-expected performance in 2020. Twelve of their members were defeated by Republicans, while every GOP incumbent held their seat.
“We were all expecting to gain seats last year too, and that’s when we were playing offense,” one Democratic strategist who worked on key races in 2020 said. “We’re on the other side of things now, so yeah, there are some reasons to be wary about next year.”
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