Politics
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Wisconsin’s name-change law raises safety risks for transgender people
A 167-year-old statute requires trans people to publish their old and new names in a newspaper. Families and advocates worry the requirement now poses a risk as President Donald Trump has attacked transgender rights.
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Republican state senator says new audits show need to pare down DEI spending in Wisconsin
Sen. Eric Wimberger, co-chair of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” for a discussion about the released and forthcoming audits.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Evers’ veto boosting school funding for 400 years
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld Gov. Tony Evers’ partial budget veto that extended a temporary school funding increase by 400 years, despite justices previously calling it “extreme” and “outrageous.”
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Bipartisan housing programs have little to show. Legislators are working on fixes.
In 2023, state lawmakers created three workforce housing programs they said would boost house construction around Wisconsin. They didn’t work as well as legislators hoped.
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Evers, campus leaders break ground on UW-Madison engineering building after years of political conflict
The center is expected to cost $419 million, and will consist of a 395,000-square-foot facility. School leaders say it will allow them to accept an extra 1,000 engineering students each year.
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Wisconsin GOP creates process to remove local party officials for harassment, defaming Republican leaders
The changes are being attacked by local GOP chairs who’ve been at odds with state party leadership, but a top Republican says the party is “trying to take the temperature down” when it comes to contentious votes on party business.
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New report highlights importance of exports for Wisconsin manufacturers, farmers
The report examined what goods produced in Wisconsin sell to international markets, who buys those products and where in the state they come from.
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As advocates call for conservation funding, Wisconsin’s stewardship program faces steep odds
Wisconsin’s decades-old land purchase program is “on life support,” a Republican supporter told environmental advocates Wednesday.
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Army Corps fast-tracks permitting process for Enbridge Line 5 tunnel
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to release its draft environmental review in June for a $750 million tunnel to house Enbridge’s Line 5.
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has become hyper political. The rise and fall of Michael Gableman’s career shows how that happened.
The former Supreme Court justice has agreed to surrender his law license after years of avoiding consequences for his behavior, including a previously unreported incident at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
