Senator Dora Drake (D) Wisconsin

By Senator Dora Drake

Resilience has become a common word that has been thrown around for the past five years. This city and this state have endured “once in a lifetime” tragedies that seem to only be prophetic and continuous. It seems like it was yesterday that COVID struck and we entered a pandemic that kept us home and broke our economy and way of life. Now, just this past weekend, we survived a “once in a 1,000-year flood” that has upended thousands of lives to the likes we have only seen as a result of hurricanes after we just recovered from the pandemic.

This week, I have spent time checking in and following up with residents across the Senate district and this city. What I have found is that by the grace of God, we have not lost a life, but people

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