Scott Walker's legacy: The empty promises of rural broadband (part 2)

With an eye to the 2018 gubernatorial election and a third term as governor....

Walker To Unveil ‘Dramatic’ Plans To Help Rural Schools.  (WCCO, 1/25/2017)

The legacy

Madison.com, 5/24/2020

Original 5/20/2020 post starts here

That was then

WisPolitics, 10/18/2017

This is now

More on Scott Walker's legacy:
December 2018
The first 3 chapters:  environment, transportation, corrections. (12/12/2018)
Chapter 4:  Wisconsin families can't afford basic necessities edition.  (12/12/2018)
Chapter 5:  Scott Walker's shameful legacy: The black-white high-school graduation gap edition.  (12/12/2018)
Chapter 6. Scott Walker's shameful legacy (the higher education edition).  (12/13/2018)

January 2019
Taking credit where no credit is due.  (1/7/2019)
Not telling the whole story.  (1/7/2019)
Gliding over the disparities.  (1/7/2019)
Voter suppression.  (1/7/2019)
Just fine and dandy with treading water over high school graduation rates.  (1/8/2019)
And then, to make matters worse, he apparently hacks his son's Twitter account.  (1/9/2019)
Dear Scott Walker, You forgot to mention this part of "OUR LEGACY".  Best, Retiring Guy.  (1/12/2019)
Scott Walker's toxic legacy: "Power to the people" hypocrisy" (Taking away local control).  (1/12/2019)
Pay to play the groundwater contamination way.  (1/12/2019)
Addicted to political slogans.  (1/12/2019)
Blaming his predecessor.  (1/19/2019)
Fast-tracking bills, stifling public participation.  (1/23/2019)

February 2019
UW Regents as campaign donors' club.  (2/8/2019)
Act 10, not working. (2/15/2019)
Scott Walker environmental legacy UPDATE: Little to no review, lax enforcement, more contaminated groundwater.  (4/22/2019)

April 2019
Frac sand nightmare.  (4/25/2019)
Chapter 6 UPDATE.  State Higher Education Executives Officers Association confirms Scott Walker's shameful higher education legacy. (4/26/2019)The destructive legacy of Governor Scott "We're # 1" Walker: the 30 billion pound milkman.  (4/27/2019)

May 2019
The piggy bank otherwise known as WEDC.  (5/14/2019)
Giving children with complex mental health needs the shaft edition).  (5/17/2019)

June 2019
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: Achieves jobs creation pledge in 8 years instead of 4.  (6/8/2019)
Heartless bastard.  (6/14/2019)
Scott Walker's legacy UPDATE: The Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake youth prison scandal.  (6/21/2019)

September 2019
Act 10 puts rural school districts in an even deeper hole.  (9/3/2019)

October 2019
Foregoing federal funds.  (10/19/2019)

December 2019
Bashing Madison.  (12/8/2019)

Reopening America (Missouri edition)

May 22, 2020

"I'm going to be honest with you. We can't have many more of these," he [Springfield-Greene County Health Department director Clay Goddard] said. "We can't make this a regular habit or our capability as a community will be strained and we will have to re-evaluate what things look like going forward."

Springfield News-Leader

May 24, 2020

CNN

Both stylists had symptoms while at work, officials said. They did not provide details on their conditions or when they tested positive.

The incident highlights the dangers of community spread in the United States as businesses reopen after weeks of restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus.

5/18/2020 Oklahoma edition starts here

Facebook (highlight added below)

Nail salon closes after employee tests positive for COVID-19.  (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, 5/14/2020)


5/17/2020 California edition starts here

From the Sacramento Bee, 5/15/2020:  

Health officials on Friday chastised a Butte County congregation for hosting a religious service on Mother’s Day in which a person infected with COVID-19 attended and exposed more than 180 others to the coronavirus. 

An investigation was underway as Butte County Public Health notified those who attended the religious service of their exposure to the infectious respiratory disease on Sunday, according to a news release. County officials did not name the congregation or indicate its location.

Related reading:
Reopening of Chico bars leads to lines of people.  (Enterprise Record, 5/16/2020)

Chico is the county seat of Butte County, California.

Related post:
Week by week:  COVID-19 cases in California.  (5/17/2020)

"No wire hangers": Debbie's Next Door request raises the ghost of Joan Crawford

"Joan Crawford" appears on Blue Oyster Cult's 1981 album Fire of Unknown Origin, which debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart on July 11, 1981, where it spent 31 weeks, peaking at #24.  It was not released as a single.

 

Original 5/1/2020 post, "How to Win Friends and Influence People (Next Door edition)", starts here.