Tanya Lavoy

Evers vetoes bill that would have made unpaid court fees a barrier to voting • Wisconsin Examiner Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have deprived ex-felons of their voting rights if they hadn't cleared up court fees

The Wisconsin GOP passed a law that would have forced people to have paid off all court debt so they can regain their voting rights (you may remember that from the Florida fights).

Governor Evers (D) vetoed it: wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/evers...

Housing first has been an incredible success in terms of mental health and substance abuse to kill it in favor of tough love nonsense that doesn't work will destroy lives.

"I asked chat gpt" "I asked grok" well I asked a KCLS librarian and they found the exact book you were looking for and have tons more recommendations for you when you're done reading it.

The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

Prisons across the U.S. rely on incarcerated labor, often paying people cents per hour—or nothing at all. Historian Robert Chase answered readers’ questions on how this system developed, how it works today, and efforts to challenge it. boltsmag.org/the-pas...

Some local Walmarts (including Lynwood) look to still have the PowerA slim case in stock for pickup.

It's hard for me to think of something that would make me angrier than the voters in my city taking away my library privileges to keep their taxes low.

Tax the rich? UW economist calls WA a ‘tax haven like the Cayman Islands’ Professor Jacob Vigdor has conservative bonafides and raised progressives' ire with his past research on the minimum wage. But now he's all in for Washington to tax the rich.

The notion that taxing the tech oligarchy is somehow a bad idea just got another nail in the coffin today thanks to UW economist Jake Vigdor, who can hardly be accused of progressive partisanship. 🧵 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/