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Yesterday โ€” 30 June 2025WPR

US ginseng growers and animal breeders rely on exports to China. Now they wait on a trade deal.

30 June 2025 at 10:00

Specialty producers exporting to China have been hit just as hard as those producing soybeans and beef. But they often have fewer alternative markets for their crops, worsening the impact of retaliatory tariffs.

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Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites could lose health coverage under Trumpโ€™s budget bill

30 June 2025 at 10:00

President Donald Trumpโ€™s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could cause tens of thousands of Wisconsinites to lose Medicaid coverage and force some rural hospitals either to close or reduce services.

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Milwaukee police officer Kendall Corder dies three days after shooting

30 June 2025 at 01:04

A six-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department has died three days after being shot in an alleyway while responding to reports of a man firing a weapon on the city's west side. Officer Kendell Corder was 32-years-old.

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Before yesterdayWPR

Lawmakers release funds for literacy but leave much of state budget undone

28 June 2025 at 07:44

The Joint Finance Committee did not take up three of the budget's most consequential issue areas when it gaveled in late Friday night โ€” more than 12 hours later than initially scheduled.ย 

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Wisconsin author discusses her motherโ€™s aging, dying in the American health care system

27 June 2025 at 22:19

Judy Karofsky's experience shepherding her mother through the U.S. eldercare and hospice systems inspired her to write a book about the systems' many shortcomings.

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Animal rights groups call for charges against processor for abandoning Wisconsin chickens

27 June 2025 at 21:01

National animal advocacy groups are calling on the Buffalo County district attorney to charge a bankrupt chicken processor over the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of chickens last fall.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court rules UW Health doesnโ€™t have to bargain with nurses union

27 June 2025 at 15:47

UW Health does not have to collectively bargain with a Madison nurses union, the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Friday in a unanimous ruling.

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