Anya van Wagtendonk is WPR’s state Capitol reporter.
Anya van Wagtendonk
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Trump blasts Biden’s economic record in Waukesha visit
The event came as Trump is on trial in New York facing criminal charges connected to an alleged scheme by his campaign to pay off an adult film actress in the weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
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Jewish UW students, groups respond to pro-Palestinian encampments
As pro-Palestinian encampment protests entered their second day at UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee Tuesday, some Jewish students and organizations expressed concern about what the protesters’ message meant for them. But the protests also exposed a division within the student body, as some Jewish students participated in the encampment.
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Pro-Palestinian encampment protests reach Universities of Wisconsin
Students at the Universities of Wisconsin in Madison and Milwaukee joined the nationwide campus movement demanding their schools support Palestinian liberation and divest from pro-Israel companies and causes.
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Black women in Wisconsin are at higher risk of violence. An effort to find out why went nowhere.
A bill that would have created a task force on missing and murdered African American women failed to pass as time ran out on the legislative session this year.
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Wisconsin elections chief Meagan Wolfe receives increased security
Meagan Wolfe, the state’s top elections official, is receiving heightened security, following years of verbal attacks by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
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GOP alleges Milwaukee, Madison elections officials discriminated against its poll workers
Two local Republican parties have filed complaints against election officials and the Wisconsin Elections Commission asserting Republicans were denied poll worker positions last week’s primary election.
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Senate candidate Eric Hovde says most nursing home residents not ‘at a point to vote’
U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde said recently that most nursing home residents are not “at a point to vote” because of limited life expectancy, repeating a claim from 2020 that swathes of older Wisconsinites saw their votes misused.
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Biden unveils student loan forgiveness plan in Madison
President Joe Biden announced a new plan while in Madison on Monday that would knock out unpaid student loan interest for millions of borrowers.
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Testing for ‘tranq’ in opioids now legal in Wisconsin
Wisconsin lawmakers have taken steps to decriminalize testing strips that allow people using drugs to better understand what’s in their supply.
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With the election months away, Hovde has Republican US Senate field largely to himself
When former President Donald Trump threw his weight behind U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde, he may have helped Wisconsin Republicans avoid some of the interparty divisions that have hurt them in recent statewide races.