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Homelessness in Wausau: City seeks long-term solutions
“What are the gaps and needs in the community, and who will pay for them? Those are questions we don’t yet have the answers to,” Wausau Police Chief Matt Barnes said.
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UW-Milwaukee’s Waukesha campus could make way for housing
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Waukesha campus will be closing after this spring semester. City officials hope to replace it with new housing.
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Wisconsin’s first federally-funded fast EV chargers come online
The fast-charging stations came online last month at Kwik Trip locations in Ashland, Menomonie and Chippewa Falls.
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Port director looks back, advises successor, on winds of trade and politics
Deb DeLuca, who is the first woman to lead the Port of Duluth and Superior, spoke about navigating trade and political winds with WPR’s Robin Washington on “Morning Edition.”
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Ron Johnson reintroduces bill to ban transgender student athletes in school sports
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has once again signed on to legislation that would ban transgender student athletes from competing on teams that don’t match their assigned gender at birth.
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State Superintendent Jill Underly will face primary challenge in February
Three candidates have filed nomination papers for state Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Underly says critics of new state testing benchmarks ‘getting it wrong’
A change in the way Wisconsin measures student achievement on state tests is getting political blowback from both sides of the aisle.
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Senate Republicans fast-track voter ID proposal ahead of Supreme Court election
It passed along party lines as Democrats protested that Republicans were playing politics ahead of a high-profile Supreme Court election.
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Dozens of Wisconsin National Guard soldiers deployed overseas as part of mission to defeat ISIS
Their mission is to support Operation Inherent Resolve, a joint military task force to reduce the threat of the Islamic State terrorist group, better known as ISIS.
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Report: Local recycling budgets are stressed as state aid has dropped
A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum has found that recycling services are stressing local government budgets due in part to a decline in state aid.
