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Wisconsin communities receive $273M for drinking water projects
Gov. Tony Evers announced the funding Monday for 86 communities from the state’s Safe Drinking Water Loan Program.
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After string of foodborne illnesses, Wisconsin experts encourage at-home food safety
While Wisconsinites have been affected by a series of foodborne illnesses over the last two months, the number of illnesses being reported isn’t out of the ordinary, a food safety expert says.
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As political rhetoric heats up, these UW-Madison students are paying close attention
Many college students will be voting for the first time on Tuesday. For most of them, the current political climate of increasing polarization and threats to democracy is all they have ever known.
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New Glarus Brewing Company is expanding
New Glarus Brewing is adding a fifty-five million dollar addition, which will include doubling the size of their brew hall, adding a smaller pilot brewery to feed a spirit distillery and more parking.
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Obama tells Democrats at Milwaukee rally that ‘values matter,’ urges voting
With just days until the presidential election, Barack Obama rallied voters for Kamala Harris at the Baird Center in Milwaukee.
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Trump, Harris cap frenetic Wisconsin campaigns with competing, massive Milwaukee rallies
Two days after hosting competing campaign events in Wisconsin, the campaigns of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were once again in the state on the same evening, making last-minute appeals to a critical voting bloc in one of the nation’s most critical swing states.
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US DOJ sending staff to monitor Wisconsin election Tuesday
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is sending election monitors to Wisconsin for Tuesday’s presidential election. Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s top election official said clerks have been preparing for potential issues since 2020.
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Harris and Trump to hold dueling rallies in Milwaukee in final days of campaign
Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold rallies in Wisconsin on Friday with just four days to go until the election. It will be the candidates’ second swing through the state this week.
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Puerto Ricans in Wisconsin respond to offensive joke made at Trump rally
Milwaukee Common Council President José Pérez said the joke about Puerto Rico was “rude” and “crass.” UW-Madison professor Aurora Santiago Ortiz called it “completely unacceptable.”
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The 2020 election upended politics. Here’s what’s changed in Wisconsin, and what hasn’t.
It’s been four years since the 2020 election upended American politics. Since then, there has been a notable loss of trust in the electoral process among some voters but relatively few changes to how Wisconsin administers elections.