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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear arguments in lawsuit over Meagan Wolfe ‘holdover’ appointment
Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about whether Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe can keep her job amid a years-long Republican push to oust her.
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‘Our community is terrified’: Wisconsin immigrants brace for threat of mass deportations
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised to lead the largest deportation effort in U.S. history.
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Marquette non-tenure-track faculty want union bargaining rights
Non-tenure-track faculty at Marquette University say a new promotion structure and pay raises are needed. But the school is claiming a religious exemption.
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Ascension to close small hospital, consolidate, close other services across southeast Wisconsin
The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021.
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Wisconsin’s shared revenue law creates recruitment challenge for Milwaukee police, fire departments
A bipartisan law overhauling local government funding has placed pressure on the city of Milwaukee to hire more police officers and firefighters in the coming years. That comes at a time when interest in the profession is dwindling.
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Wisconsin’s new Senate president still wants state to require transparency in hospital prices
The new No. 2 Republican leader in the Wisconsin state Senate on Thursday renewed her push for hospitals to be more transparent about what they charge for procedures.
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Wisconsin school board wants to bring back legislation banning transgender athletes from school sports
The Arrowhead Union High School board’s policy committee met Tuesday and unanimously said they would support a resolution directing the Wisconsin Association of School Boards to advocate for “no biological males in female sports.”
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Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers
Microsoft will use generators that rely on diesel or renewable fuel to provide backup power at its data centers as part of the company’s $3.3 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant.
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How Wisconsin’s Latino voters shifted toward Trump and where the parties go next
More Wisconsin Latinos voted for President-elect Donald Trump this election than in 2020. Now, both major political parties are trying to figure out how to appeal to this growing and diverse group of voters.
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State environmental regulators issue key permits for Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute
The permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources authorize Enbridge to build the pipeline across waterways and wetlands in the rerouted section. The new stretch of 30-inch pipe would run 41 miles around the reservation in Ashland and Iron counties.
