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Eau Claire is asking Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to determine if transporting homeless people to other jurisdictions is legal. One thing is clear: This is no way to treat people in such dire circumstances. Wisconsin Watch search.app/TwVprbasBJhXHy…

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Want to help wildlife in a place like Minnesota? Plant an oak tree. Why? Caterpillars. Birds need lots and lots of caterpillars. startribune.com/to-attract-and…

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Trump has a lower approval rating than for any past president at the 100-day mark in their first or second terms, as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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Four days after Paula Jolly opened Amanda's House, a sober living home for women and their children in Green Bay, its 6 bedrooms were full. Today, 40 people are on a waiting list. “A lot of times, they don’t have anywhere else to go” wisconsinwatch.org/2025/04/wiscon…

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👋 Wisconsin Watch and the Northeast Wisconsin News Initiative are partnering on a project to understand key gaps in local news and knowledge -- we've developed a short survey and invite all residents of northeast Wisconsin to take part: wisconsinwatch.org/new/

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To shift WI tax $$ to small towns, Republicans broke with 100 years of shared revenue history and adopted a formula that delivered increases of 202% to communities of less than 5,000 people, but just 25% to cities of 50,000 to 110,000 Wisconsin Watch search.app/xwTHBDk79x8FLD…

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Wow, so glad folks will be making a living again at this site, where a state-of-the-art newspaper printing plant was built at the start of this century. ‘Local manufacturer plans to redevelop Journal Sentinel's closed printing plant with 1,000 jobs’ jsonline.com/story/money/re…

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Republicans cut 30+ mental care programs from state budget, including veterans’ mental health, peer-to-peer suicide prevention for teens, and collaborative efforts between law enforcement & behavioral health professionals. Natalie Eilbert jsonline.com/story/news/hea…

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The story behind Stella's Playground, which could be Milwaukee's first playground for little ones unable to climb and scamper. “I would give my limbs to fix this for Stella — I would do anything.” Natalie Eilbert jsonline.com/story/news/hea…

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This Jim Owczarski dude can write: How can the Bucks retool around Giannis Antetokounmpo? They need only look West, to the Golden State Warriors, as an example of how – when a team has an all-time great player – the sun never truly sets on contention . . . jsonline.com/story/sports/n…

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Fact Check: Yes, the U.S. is one of only 2 countries that allow advertising of prescription drugs. U.S. companies did not promote drugs to the public until the 1980s. Before then, only doctors and pharmacists received that information Wisconsin Watch search.app/jLcSgutyFW5jMj…

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Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court’s greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings. apnews.com/article/trump-…

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He's biking across WI this week to raise $$ for Neighborhood News Service. And you can contribute! "There’s a lot of arguing about who is right and who is wrong, but something matters more – what we DO to make our communities and world better for everyone" milwaukeenns.org/2025/05/26/ins…

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Great story about how a rural Wisconsin community college raised its graduates' salaries substantially by focusing on family-supporting career training: wisconsinwatch.org/2025/05/southw…

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Did Brewers find another late-round draft steal at pitcher? His “slider is a high-spin, low-80s breaker that dives off the table like a Labrador yanking a plate of pizza straight to the ground” jsonline.com/story/sports/m…