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News In Your Area
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County advocate: Attracting younger workers vital to communities with aging populations
“Demographics are a giant problem in this state,” said Mark O’Connell, executive director of the Wisconsin Counties Association. “The last time we had as few births as we have today was in 1943. We are not creating enough young people. We don’t attract them, we don’t grow them, we don’t keep them.”
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Wake boats stirring up controversy in Wisconsin waters
Fred Strand, member of the Bayfield County Board of Supervisors, spoke with WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” about efforts on the statewide level to reel in the adverse effects of wake boating.
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US Supreme Court seems likely to side with Catholic Charities on religious exemption in Wisconsin case
U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed likely to rule in favor of the charitable arm of the Catholic Diocese in Superior, which is arguing it was wrongly denied a religious exemption from paying state unemployment tax.
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First-term state representative urges Wisconsin to match Minnesota’s medical reimbursement rates
Stroud held a town hall in Superior this week, discussing among other issues a dearth of health care services in the district. Before the town hall, she joined WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” to talk about those concerns.
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Small Wisconsin libraries might be hit hard as Trump targets federal funding
Federal funding for Wisconsin library systems might be at risk after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of an agency that provides financial support to libraries nationwide.
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Discovery of cougar cubs in Upper Michigan could be ‘turning point’ for recolonization
It was the first time in more than 100 years that cougar kittens had been verified in Michigan, and it happened in a county just 20 miles from Wisconsin’s border.
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Superior has the state’s only private water utility. It’s making it harder to replace lead pipes.
Congress provided billions of dollars to help communities remove lead pipes under the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. The funding will help water systems pay for those projects. Almost all of them can apply for forgivable loans. But Superior’s water utility is barred from doing so.
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Fired federal workers in Wisconsin are reinstated, but they fear not for long
Some fired federal workers in Wisconsin are already receiving back pay after being reinstated, but other employees are still awaiting payment or have been placed on paid leave.
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County forests abound in northern Wisconsin, but state aid for untaxed land lags behind inflation
Bayfield County Administrator Mark Abeles-Allison spoke with WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition” about efforts by the counties to increase aid provided from the state to offset untaxed county forest lands that hasn’t kept up with inflation.
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Wisconsin may see more logging of national forest land under Trump order
President Donald Trump wants to ramp up timber production by fast-tracking projects under laws that protect endangered species and other environmental regulations, which could boost logging in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.
