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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘No place to go’: Hospitals packed (again) as COVID-19 disproportionately sickens, kills the unvaccinated
COVID surge; battered state parks; housing crisis; hospitals sue patients; tossed election complaint
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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘I felt dead inside’: Trauma lingers for Wisconsin families following doctor’s wrongful child abuse diagnoses
Flawed forensics; redistricting ruling; GOP election system attack; averted eviction; domestic violence dangers
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Wisconsin Weekly: Allegations of bullying, misdiagnoses follow former University of Wisconsin child abuse doctor to Alaska
Child abuse doc; National Guard suicides; refugees’ hardship; health disparities for Black moms; justice in Kenosha
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Wisconsin Weekly: Infrastructure bill could speed up Milwaukee lead line replacement
Dangerous pipes; Wisconsin Elections Commission partisan gridlock; Aaron Rodgers’ misinformation; minor errors on 2020 ballots; COVID in deer
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Wisconsin Weekly: Waxing and waning waves create havoc along Lake Michigan
Lake levels fluctuate; public official dodges abuse charge; electrical dangers; Rittenhouse trial exposes rifts; Trump country clerks embraced drop boxes
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Wisconsin Weekly: Report: 2 in 5 Wisconsin health officers have retired or resigned during pandemic
Health department exodus; never ending election; get out the vote tactics; concussion woes; college savings accounts
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Wisconsin Weekly: Wisconsin is hotspot for school board recall efforts during pandemic
School board recalls; nursing home deaths; GOP redistricting maps; PFAS action; jail’s letter ban
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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘A slap in the face’: Wisconsin imprisons 1 in 36 Black adults, highest U.S. rate
Color of justice; dark history at Indigenous boarding schools; power of vaccination; misinforming chiropractors; PFAS-shuttered water wells
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Wisconsin Weekly: ‘Something has to be done’: Life along a toxic waterway
Polluted waters; knowledge void in partisan election review; solar’s big potential; vanishing campus disability accommodations
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Wisconsin Weekly: COVID-19 surge ‘feels like Groundhog Day’ to exhausted Fox Valley doctors and nurses
Inside a COVID unit; GOP redistricting strategy; food shortages in schools; children’s college savings programs; unemployment system overhaul
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Wisconsin Weekly: Criminalizing kids: Wisconsin schools topped nation in calling police on Native American students
Student police referrals high; COVID-19 spreading among Wisconsin kids; Milwaukee’s killing epidemic; tribes sue to halt wolf hunt; restoring March’s legacy