Nearly 40 years after Shelly Hansen vanished in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, unsealed records reveal a hidden suspect
The Price County Sheriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for Michael D. Raskie’s DNA in 2008, but he wasn’t charged in Hansen’s case before he died in 2015.
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Guest opinion: Rural Wisconsin workers lose health insurance twice as fast as before the pandemic
Wisconsin should expand Medicaid, invest in renewal pathways that don’t assume broadband internet access and revamp the renewal system so eligible people do not lose coverage, Jiyue Wang writes.
Guest opinion: Many Wisconsin firefighters missed a chance at toxic foam compensation. Here’s how to fix that.
Thousands of firefighters exposed to toxic firefighting foam never filed claims before a key deadline. Better outreach and a proposed federal compensation program could help prevent others from being left behind, attorney Jordan Cade writes.
Guest opinion: New federal funding guidelines fail to address root causes of homelessness
Josh Benti writes: “With direction from the HUD notice, (Continuums of Care) will need to meet a new set of requirements that are beyond the scope of nonprofit service providers in our community.”