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Today β€” 7 November 2025WPR

Door County CAFO faces backlash at DNR hearing

7 November 2025 at 11:00

Residents voiced concerns about Gilbert Farms’ expansion plan on Wednesday, during a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hearing over a Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the farm. The hearing was held to gather feedback before the agency decides whether to approve the farm’s permit.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear case about race-based college scholarships

7 November 2025 at 11:00

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has elected to hear a case about whether education grants for students of certain ethnic backgrounds are constitutional.

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Queen of the Beatniks: Remembering β€˜Chippewa Girl’ Judy Henske

By: Patti See
7 November 2025 at 11:00

In the early 1960s, New York City's "Queen of the Beatniks" was a young singer from Chippewa Falls: Judy Henske. Writer Patti See looks back on Henske's talent and western Wisconsin's influence on the singer.

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Monday absentee ballot processing bill stalls again due to lack of GOP support

7 November 2025 at 00:04

Despite past bipartisan backing, a Republican state lawmaker says he has to "punt" an initiative to let election clerks process absentee ballots before election day because it doesn't have enough GOP support.

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Pocan says politicians β€˜need to get back to Washington and work’ amid historic shutdown

6 November 2025 at 23:47

The Democratic U.S. representative from Madison says it’s "somewhere between stupid and cruel" to take away health care subsidies and permanently reduce SNAP funding without a plan.

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1977 law that effectively ended redlining is overdue for updates, new book author argues

6 November 2025 at 20:36

In his new book, Josh Silver says that despite progress from the Community Reinvestment Act, communities like Milwaukee could be left behind if the CRA is not reformed for the modern age.

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Yesterday β€” 6 November 2025WPR

2 Wisconsin Latino business community members say Trump’s policies are hurting them

6 November 2025 at 11:02

President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs and expansion of immigration arrests are harming Latino businesses, according to the head of a chamber of commerce in Madison and the co-founder of a marketplace for Latina entrepreneurs.

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WIAA pushes back on proposal to make organization follow public records, open meetings laws

6 November 2025 at 11:00

A Senate Education Committee hearing was held this week on a bill that would force the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, or WIAA, to comply with state public records and open meetings laws. Β 

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Wisconsin GOP lawmakers consider legal definition of abortion, separate from miscarriage care

6 November 2025 at 11:00

Wisconsin lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday about a proposal to define abortion in state law, which Republican supporters say will clear up fears that abortion restrictions will also affect miscarriage management.

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50 years after the Edmund Fitzgerald, β€˜Tattletale Sounds’ author separates fact from ballad folklore

6 November 2025 at 11:00

β€œI’m highly criticized at my lectures because I pick on Gordon,” said Ric Mixter, a documentarian and author of several works about the wreck, including his latest, β€œTattletale Sounds, the Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.” 

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As shutdown sets record, Ron Johnson flips position on ending Senate filibuster

6 November 2025 at 00:38

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has flipped his position on killing the Senate filibuster rule, which has prevented Republicans from passing a federal government funding bill without negotiating with Democrats.

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We Energies hopes to add almost 3GW to the electric grid to help meet data center demand

5 November 2025 at 23:06

We Energies says the renewable projects will send energy to the grid every day while the natural gas plants will be used primarily during peak demand times.

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β€˜Bruce Springsteen meets Ken Burns’: Mobilize the Poets puts on rock β€˜n’ roll history shows in Wisconsin

5 November 2025 at 18:37

This Veterans Day, a troupe of musicians, historians and theater artists will put on a multi-media rock 'n' roll history show about Wisconsin in World War I. And they’re hoping to bring the show around the state in the near future.

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