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Duffy reaches fork in the road at Superior’s Blatnik Bridge
Will the US Transportation Secretary release a $1 billion Blatnik Bridge replacement grant in his former congressional district or go along with President Donald Trump’s arbitrary cuts to infrastructure projects?
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Entering the job market gets tougher for college graduates in AI era
Marquette University senior Gigi Martin calls the current job market “rejection therapy.”
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OPINION: An unauthorized war with Iran exposes America’s colonizers and monarchists
President Trump’s ability to unilaterally launch a war with Iran forces us to acknowledge the real regime change was done here in the United States.
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WI-born veteran, congressman calls out Van Orden for Trump support
US Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado native who was born and raised in Wisconsin, says fellow veteran and Rep. Derrick Van Orden failed veterans and the President’s new war with Iran isn’t what Wisconsinites want.
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7 moments that defined Wisconsin’s labor movement
Wisconsin has been home to strong union advocates since the nineteenth century, but their path hasn’t always been easy.
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What’s Happening in Wisconsin: Your View and the Badger State Buzz (March 2-8)
Welcome to this week’s Wisconsin View and Badger State Buzz—two staples of the UpNorthNews newsletter.
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11 mind-boggling facts about Wisconsin
You may think you know all about the Badger State, but there are some facts about Wisconsin that are truly surprising, even to long-time Wisconsinites.
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Question of the Week: Which way to fund schools?
Recently, there’s been a lot of debate over the way we fund a good K-12 education. How would you design it? It’s our newsletter question of the week for March 1, 2026.
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From Minneapolis to your block: Real people are proving politics isn’t just for watching
Consuming political news isn’t the same as building political power. From Minneapolis to small-town America, rural organizer Gwen Frisbie-Fulton writes that real change starts with local organizing and civic engagement. Someone once told me this story: Anthropologists visiting an Aboriginal village showed them a newspaper clipping about an earthquake that destroyed a town halfway across…
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Central WI businesses set to compete at 2026 World Cheese Contest
Several dairy manufacturers from central and northern Wisconsin are set to compete in the 2026 World Championship Cheese Contest, which will take place March 3-5 at the Monona Terrace Community & Convention Center in Madison. Their products are among 3,375 entries across 150 classes of dairy products, according to a community announcement. The competition is…
