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It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Republican government shutdown is going to hurt childcare and early childhood education, since eliminating Head Start in its entirety is part of Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump administration.
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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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October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Republican government shutdown is going to hurt childcare and early childhood education, since eliminating Head Start in its entirety is part of Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a second Trump administration.
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Editorial: It’s BS to say that poverty is some kind of choice that is rewarded with a lavish lifestyle… of a whopping $6 a day in SNAP support. Cutting those programs doesn’t result in savings any more than a farmer eating their seed corn.
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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.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Editorial: It’s BS to say that poverty is some kind of choice that is rewarded with a lavish lifestyle… of a whopping $6 a day in SNAP support. Cutting those programs doesn’t result in savings any more than a farmer eating their seed corn.
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Pot, meet kettle: Justice Rebecca Bradley quits Wisconsin’s high court over partisanship she created.
Rebecca Bradley, Wisconsin GOP Supreme Court justice, announces exit
While not announcing her next move, Justice Rebecca Bradley said fellow conservatives need to “take stock of their failures and fix it.”
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September 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Pot, meet kettle: Justice Rebecca Bradley quits Wisconsin’s high court over partisanship she created.
In this week's WayUpNorth segment, Rep. Angela Stroud (D-Ashland) talks about post-budget listening sessions – and the ridiculousness of some colleagues who enjoy micromanaging faculty, cheating our public schools, and trashing their Indigenous neighbors.
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Rep. Angela Stroud Interview – Aug 26, 2025
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August 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In this week's WayUpNorth segment, Rep. Angela Stroud (D-Ashland) talks about post-budget listening sessions – and the ridiculousness of some colleagues who enjoy micromanaging faculty, cheating our public schools, and trashing their Indigenous neighbors.
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
In this week's WayUpNorth segment, Rep. Angela Stroud (D-Ashland) talks about post-budget listening sessions – and the ridiculousness of some colleagues who enjoy micromanaging faculty, cheating our public schools, and trashing their Indigenous neighbors.
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
Rep. Angela Stroud Interview – Aug 26, 2025
YouTube video by UpNorthNews
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In this week's WayUpNorth segment, Rep. Angela Stroud (D-Ashland) talks about post-budget listening sessions – and the ridiculousness of some colleagues who enjoy micromanaging faculty, cheating our public schools, and trashing their Indigenous neighbors.
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
youtu.be/cyIiFzte0Xs?...
“Rural hospitals are infrastructure,” we’re reminded by Dr. Jill McMullen of Tomah. If a community loses its hospital due to Republican cuts to Medicaid, it affects everyone who needs care—especially in emergencies.
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Rural health care faces ‘death spiral’ from GOP Medicaid cuts
A doctor from Tomah talks to Pete Buttigieg’s online audiences about cuts in services and longer travel times for life-or-death care.
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August 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“Rural hospitals are infrastructure,” we’re reminded by Dr. Jill McMullen of Tomah. If a community loses its hospital due to Republican cuts to Medicaid, it affects everyone who needs care—especially in emergencies.
Read more: bit.ly/4mMaeC0
Read more: bit.ly/4mMaeC0
Wisconsin has plenty of experience with partisan gerrymandering of political maps. That’s why Democrats here are united behind their Texas colleagues fighting a Republican effort to rig that state’s congressional maps.
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Wisconsin Lawmaker: Corrupt maps in Texas will corrupt maps everywhere
Texas Democrats leave their state to freeze a Republican legislature ordered by Trump to gerrymander their congressional boundaries.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wisconsin has plenty of experience with partisan gerrymandering of political maps. That’s why Democrats here are united behind their Texas colleagues fighting a Republican effort to rig that state’s congressional maps.
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There was nothing vague about what President Donald Trump promised last year: full coverage of IVF. There are still no signs he’s going to turn that pledge into policy, extending the heartache for thousands of Wisconsin women facing infertility and pregnancy issues.
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Trump’s IVF promise is being broken and will hit 175,000 Wisconsin women with fertility issues
Report says White House has no plans to press for a private insurance mandate or government support, despite repeated promises by the self-described “fertilization president”
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August 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
There was nothing vague about what President Donald Trump promised last year: full coverage of IVF. There are still no signs he’s going to turn that pledge into policy, extending the heartache for thousands of Wisconsin women facing infertility and pregnancy issues.
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Hello, Blewskis!
(Hey we're the state known for brewskis and no one's come up with a better name for the BlueSky community.. so Blewskis it'll be, for now.)
It seems appropriate that Post No. 1 gets to the main event we'll be covering for the next 64 weeks.
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(Hey we're the state known for brewskis and no one's come up with a better name for the BlueSky community.. so Blewskis it'll be, for now.)
It seems appropriate that Post No. 1 gets to the main event we'll be covering for the next 64 weeks.
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Who is (and isn’t) running for Wisconsin governor in 2026?
Gov. Tony Evers’ retirement will set off a feeding frenzy of political ambition for the first open governor’s seat in 16 years, and the ripple effect could be many more open races down the Wisconsin b...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Hello, Blewskis!
(Hey we're the state known for brewskis and no one's come up with a better name for the BlueSky community.. so Blewskis it'll be, for now.)
It seems appropriate that Post No. 1 gets to the main event we'll be covering for the next 64 weeks.
upnorthnewswi.com/2025/07/29/w...
(Hey we're the state known for brewskis and no one's come up with a better name for the BlueSky community.. so Blewskis it'll be, for now.)
It seems appropriate that Post No. 1 gets to the main event we'll be covering for the next 64 weeks.
upnorthnewswi.com/2025/07/29/w...