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Wisconsin's new round of food stamp rules tightening work requirements also comes as a state jobs program aimed at FoodShare beneficiaries shows mixed results.
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Deke Slayton had the heart of a warrior.
In the aftermath of tragedy, people often go searching for answers: How could this happen? Why did someone do this? Could this have been avoided?
Changes to Wisconsin's public assistance laws include new work requirements for the state's FoodShare program. Feeding Wisconsin executive director David Lee discuss the implications of these new policies.
Reid Magney of the Wisconsin Elections Commission discusses what happened with Wisconsin voters who were removed from voting rolls before the February 2018 spring primary election.
Although Wisconsin technically has non-partisan elections, partisanship has been on full display in recent state Supreme Court races.
In 1918, the Spanish flu attacked young, otherwise healthy adults, killed quickly and often, and leapt from Europe to Wisconsin with unimaginable speed. Its cause was unknown; its mode of transmission was unknown; how to stop it was unknown.
Wetlands make up a part of the landscape in every Wisconsin county.
In light of a mass shooting in Florida, National Alliance on Mental Illness Wisconsin executive director Nate Schorr sits down to discuss how mental health plays a role in this type of violence.
As the Wisconsin legislature debates wetland regulation, UW-Madison geography professor Morgan Robertson discusses what would be affected by the bill, and how flooding and runoff are affected by these landscape features.