Some states started holding primary elections this week for next November’s general election. Here’s our newsletter question of the week for March 8, 2026.
Cell phone bans in schools are working—but districts can't address the root problem. Lawmakers and Big Tech can.
Wisconsin has already taken action with a statewide school phone ban taking effect this year.
Follow @upnorthnewswi as we keep up with the people holding tech companies accountable.
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President Trump made a push in his State of the Union address for Congress to pass voter suppression bills. One from Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil would put major limits on mailed ballots, Another would make voter ID rules so strict that tens of millions of women who changed their names after marriage could find themselves ineligible to vote. Wisconsin political strategist Joe Zepecki says consider the source: a president who tried to steal the 2020 election.
In a recent Sunday newsletter Question of the Week, more than 90% of respondents expressed outrage that Rep. Tom Tiffany, the presumptive Republican candidate for governor, referred to the Epstein files as a distraction from he claimed are President Donald Trump’s economic successes. Democratic candidate and former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said Tiffany should take another look at what Trump’s economy has actually done to Wisconsin.
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The spring election is just six weeks away — and there’s a good chance many voters don’t really know much about the candidates running for spots on school boards and and in local governments. A group in Waukesha County is showing how a little homework goes a long way in making sure you can vote for someone who’s closer to your values.
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Concern about the real world impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being felt by everyone, whatever their political preferences. But that’s not translating into bipartisan political action on behalf of all the people whose jobs could be lost to AI. A rising leader in the Wisconsin Assembly wants to change that.
After becoming one of the youngest caucus leaders in the history of the Wisconsin Legislature four years ago, Rep. Greta Neubauer (D-Racine) put her skills to work as Minority Leader, keeping her caucus together and focused on achieving wins. One of her biggest wins came recently with the passage of a long-stalled bill to extend health insurance care to new moms and another bill to cover follow-up breast cancer screenings. This rising leader is in a position to ride the momentum to become Majority Leader next year.
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.
“Kicked by a cow.”
A doctor in western Wisconsin says that’s what the note on his appointment calendar said. Like this one, many of the doctor’s patients are farmers in rural Dunn County.
Farmers often prioritize livestock and crops over their own health—for many reasons.
🐄They’re a one-man show, making it impossible to be away from daily chores.
🚜There’s a lot of pressure to get field work done when the weather is nice.
🚗 Especially now, they have to travel pretty far to get to a hospital.
💰Many farmers are self-employed and can’t access employer-based insurance, or their coverage is so limited that it leaves them with heavy debt.
🩺About a quarter of farmers rely on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage for health insurance and while this month, the US House of Representatives voted to extend enhanced subsidies for three years, the future of the legislation in the Senate isn’t finalized.
✏️: Salina Heller
One of the Democratic candidates for governor has put out a 3-part plan for growing the state’s economy.
