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Wisconsin audits find university, state agencies failed to track DEI spending
Republican-ordered audits released Friday found that Wisconsin state agencies and the Universities of Wisconsin have failed to track the millions of dollars they spent on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, making it difficult to fully assess the initiatives.
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Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1M payments to voters after attorney general sues
A Wisconsin appellate court denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday
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Wisconsin appeals court overturns ruling allowing for emailing ballots to disabled voters
A Wisconsin appeals court ruled that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election.
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Madison school policy cited in Trump order banning teaching critical race theory, gender identity
The order specifically mentions a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that it says calls on schools to “disrupt the gender binary” by teaching students to embrace different gender identities.
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Sean Duffy is confirmed by the US Senate to lead the Transportation Department
Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, has been confirmed as transportation secretary, giving him a key role in President Donald Trump’s administration.
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‘Mr. Baseball’ Bob Uecker, Brewers announcer, dies at 90
Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.
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Judge releases woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man from a psychiatric hospital
Morgan Geyser has petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who committed her, for release four times since June 2022.
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Supreme Court will hear Catholic charitable group’s plea to be free from Wisconsin unemployment tax
The Supreme Court on Friday said it would take up a new religious rights case over whether a Catholic charitable organization must pay Wisconsin’s employment tax.
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The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death moves to end their marriage
The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage.
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Madison clerk says barcodes on absentee ballot envelopes prevent duplicate votes
The mailing of about 2,200 duplicate absentee ballots in Madison has led a Republican member of Congress to falsely suggest that the clerk was lying about the presence of barcodes on the ballots themselves.