Prosecutorial power, tracking the ex-incarcerated; resistance at Indigenous boarding schools; Guardsman at Capitol assault; Black zookeepers allege toxic workplace
Category: Wisconsin Weekly
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Wisconsin Weekly: Wisconsin needs home care workers. But it pays poverty-level wages
Home care demand; denied vote; pollution law shakeup; living as trans in Wisconsin; solar solution
Wisconsin Weekly: Pandemic shock pushes Wisconsin tribes to diversify economy
Gambling on gaming; lingering election lies; venomous school board elections; spearfishing season begins; telecommuting and climate change
Wisconsin Weekly: New census approach better reflects Wisconsin’s multiracial identities
Racial complexity; building code violation disparities; rap lyrics on trial; COVID in animals; plunging college enrollment
Wisconsin Weekly: UW-Madison reckons with academic abuse
Academic bullying; Evers’ maps tossed; Foxconn waiting game; partisan battles in schools; no charges in Milwaukee lead poisoning probe
Wisconsin Weekly: Anonymous objection may foil plan to protect Cedar Gorge on Lake Michigan
Conservation setback; mom’s custody battle; COVID’s lasting scars; sanctioned superyacht was made in Wisconsin; nursing home voting under scrutiny
Wisconsin Weekly: The fight over chronic Lyme disease in Wisconsin
Lingering Lyme; long COVID; formula recall; Gableman records; Russian oil ban
Wisconsin Weekly: ‘I don’t know what will happen’: After months at Ft. McCoy, Afghan family resettled in separate states
Afghan resettlement challenges; Gableman report; Indigenous census; affordable housing solutions; altered legal reports
Wisconsin Weekly: Milwaukee eyes driver education to combat reckless driving crisis
Reckless driving; watered-down PFAS rules; GOP’s election lie divide; manure pollution; push to break up Milwaukee Public Schools
Wisconsin Weekly: Pandemic spotlights homelessness in Brown County 
Seeking shelter; climate threats; bail overhaul; elections commissioner declares 2020 election ‘fair’ and ‘rigged;’ overdose deaths
Wisconsin Weekly: GOP lawmakers invite election fraud claims from man convicted of bank and mail fraud 
GOP election bills; far-fetched testimony; diversifying northeast Wisconsin; effort to slow environmental rulemaking; unused COVID pills
Wisconsin Weekly: Expanding paid leave could ease working parent woes, fix labor crunch
Parental dilemmas; diversifying Wisconsin; ‘too many prisons’; refugee challenges; pandemic-era policing