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Wisconsin school districts keep begging voters for more money. Is the state funding formula broken?
Proposals to update the state’s nearly 30-year-old revenue scheme stall out in the Legislature as voters increasingly are asked to OK new spending.
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Photo: Prison reform rally
Rylee Jenich, left, speaks as Shyelle Smith holds a Black Lives Matter flag outside the Wisconsin State Capitol at a rally held by prison abolition group AbolishMKE before a Joint Finance Committee meeting to discuss the Department of Corrections budget on June 10. Jenich moved to Madison last year after serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Jenich said their incarceration was primarily the result of drug addiction, which they say is not properly handled by the criminal justice system.
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Opinion: Wisconsin regulators should reject Crawford County pig CAFO
A Steuben, Wisconsin resident writes that she is devastated that the Wisconsin DNR conditionally approved plans for Roth Feeder Pig to expand into a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO).
Opinion: Bar lawmakers from destroying records
At the heart of Wisconsin’s government transparency laws is a presumption of openness — that “all persons are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those officers and employees who represent them.”
Opinion: Long-unreported pipeline leak should be a wakeup call for Wisconsin
Guest author Peter Truitt argues in this Opinion piece that the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline should be halted because of high health and environmental risks.
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