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As energy-hungry data centers loom, Wisconsin ratepayers owe $1 billion on shuttered power plants
As energy-hungry data centers loom, Wisconsin ratepayers owe $1 billion on shuttered power plants.
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Does Trump’s Wisconsin economy seem ‘A+++++’ to you? He thinks so
The real numbers about the Wisconsin economy tell a different story as 2025 crawls to a close.
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WI diversified, specialty farmers could be slighted in federal aid
Policy experts predict small, specialty farms will be on the losing end of the latest federal agricultural bailout meant to offset farmers’ losses from rising production costs and the market disruptions from new tariff policies.
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Trump cancels a Navy shipbuilding order, putting Marinette jobs in limbo
Fincantieri Marinette Marine is losing out on four or more frigates. Baldwin demands a new plan to counter China’s growing naval fleet.
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Tree-mendous news: This year’s Capitol Holiday Tree will be harvested in Oconto County
The 2025 Capitol Holiday Tree will stem from Oconto County. Here are all the fun details.
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Epstein email says Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ but White House says release is a Democratic smear
The sex-offending financier Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump “knew about the girls,” according to communications released Wednesday, but the White House quickly accused Democrats of selectively leaking the emails to smear the president.
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Why health insurance is so expensive this year — and what you can do about it.
This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal and state Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
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‘It’s terrifying’: Wisconsinites worry about their neighbors who rely on SNAP
‘It’s terrifying’ – but neighbors across Wisconsin are pitching in to fill some of the gap for 700,000 in the state whose SNAP lifeline was cut as part of Republicans’ government shutdown.
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2 Wisconsin Head Start programs to close amid shutdown, many more at risk
Republicans’ refusal to halt massive price hikes for health insurance means families will start going without childcare, and providers won’t get paid.
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Bootstraps? SNAP, Medicaid, and Pell are the bootstraps
When Americans have food, shelter, education, and good health, they can thrive and become the taxpayers who more than make up for the help that got them out of poverty.
