The List of Names Continues

Eight years ago today, my first husband and father of my sons died in the Wisconsin River. He was not the first person to die in this river. No, Tony was just one of a growing list of preventable deaths. Preventable by proper signage. Preventable by beach closings. Preventable if the state of Wisconsin allowed victims’ families to sue and thereby effect change. But our voices are capped, squashed. And change? Well, people keep dying.

Today I list those people who have died in the year si...