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Today — 31 January 2025WPR

Brothers combine love of dairy farming, Green Bay Packers in film ‘Green and Gold’

31 January 2025 at 11:00

Filmmaking brothers Anders and Davin Lindwall visited WPR’s “The Larry Meiller Show” to talk about their first feature film, the Wisconsin-based "Green and Gold.”

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The federal funding freeze sparked anxiety in Wisconsin. Some groups are still on edge.

31 January 2025 at 01:56

Days after a White House announcement that a wide range of federal funds would be frozen across the country, Wisconsin nonprofits and agencies that rely on those dollars say they still don’t know where things stand.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn recuses himself from Act 10 challenge

30 January 2025 at 23:58

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn will not participate in a case challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin Act 10, the 2011 law restricting public employee collective bargaining rights.

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Winter activities continue to confront challenges in northern Wisconsin

30 January 2025 at 22:44

While bitter cold has benefited snowmaking this month, organizers of North America’s largest cross country ski race are crafting contingency plans for another year with below normal snowfall.

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We Energies’ planned Oak Creek natural gas plant to produce 1.3M tons of emissions annually

30 January 2025 at 21:31

The natural gas plant We Energies plans to build at its Oak Creek power plant campus will produce more than 1.3 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year, according to a new report from state regulators.

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‘Our Afghan Neighbors’ exhibit explores life for Fox Valley refugees

30 January 2025 at 20:00

Farah, an Afghan refugee, moved to Appleton in January 2022 after fleeing unrest in her home country.  She had never experienced winter before, and arrived in Wisconsin during what’s traditionally […]

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Yesterday — 30 January 2025WPR

Explore ‘Sandland,’ a hidden underground labyrinth in western Wisconsin

30 January 2025 at 11:00

Hobby tunneling is a pastime in which amateur excavators build their own underground infrastructure with minimal equipment. We take a tour through a tunnel system more than a decade in the making.

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GOP accuses Crawford of ‘selling’ congressional seats for addressing Democratic donor briefing

29 January 2025 at 23:59

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford is facing Republican criticism for participating in a Democratic donor call advertised as a "chance to put two more House seats in play."

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Drug trafficking case in Milwaukee area leads to 14 arrests

29 January 2025 at 23:23

The investigation began after a traffic stop in West Allis in June 2023. West Allis Police Chief Patrick Mitchell said drugs found in the vehicle eventually led to a wider investigation involving multiple agencies.

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Madison school policy cited in Trump order banning teaching critical race theory, gender identity

29 January 2025 at 20:13

The order specifically mentions a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that it says calls on schools to “disrupt the gender binary” by teaching students to embrace different gender identities.

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Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal grants after widespread confusion

President Donald Trump's budget office on Wednesday rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country.

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Madison and Nashville school shooters appear to have crossed paths in online extremist communities

29 January 2025 at 18:00

A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and encourages young people to commit attacks themselves.

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Kohl’s is reducing its corporate workforce by 10 percent, says fewer than 200 people are affected

29 January 2025 at 17:54

After struggling for much of the last year, Menomonee Falls-based Kohl’s Corp. is reducing its corporate workforce by about 10 percent.

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