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Category: Wisconsin Weekly
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Wisconsin Weekly: The fight over chronic Lyme disease in Wisconsin
Lingering Lyme; long COVID; formula recall; Gableman records; Russian oil ban
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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
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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
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Wisconsin Weekly: Pandemic spotlights homelessness in Brown County 
Seeking shelter; climate threats; bail overhaul; elections commissioner declares 2020 election ‘fair’ and ‘rigged;’ overdose deaths
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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
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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
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Wisconsin Weekly: Former UW child abuse doctor leaves job in Alaska 
Dr. Barbara Knox resigns; agencies investigated for fraud; cheaper child care and the labor shortage; alcohol’s toll on Wisconsin; solar fix stalled
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Wisconsin Weekly: Overlooked in Wisconsin’s cash bail debate: state Constitution
Beyond bail; flawed forensics; clergy abuse; disciplined election outcome denier; COVID-19 in jails
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Wisconsin Weekly: Complaint languishes over Republican electors submitting fake records
GOP electors accused of fraud; Foxconn claims end; COVID clinics criticized; ballot boxes banned; miscommunication tied to low bail for alleged murderer
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Wisconsin Weekly: Wisconsin patients left waiting as omicron fills hospitals
Hospital crisis; Capitol insurrection anniversary; GOP election scrutiny; whooping crane worries; understanding conspiracy theories
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Wisconsin Weekly: GOP state senator: ‘No one should falsely accuse election officials of cheating’
Election system targeted; higher ed hurdles; COVID death toll; subsidizing danger; rural skepticism around Biden spending