Frederica Freyberg is the anchor of PBS Wisconsin's Here & Now, a live weekly program that covers news concerning state issues and feature segments about matters in local communities throughout the state.
Long a staple for reporters and high school civics classes, the Wisconsin Blue Book provides a roadmap for Wisconsin's state government. This year's version, however, features a redesign of the iconic blue cover.
How might proposed tightening of U.S. immigration policy affect farmers in Wisconsin? Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism managing editor Dee Hall discusses about how farm workers in Wisconsin who are undocumented would fare under proposed changes to deportation policy.
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in the Gill v. Whitford lawsuit over partisan gerrymandering, WPR capitol bureau chief Shawn Johnson breaks down the case and shares his insight on where the justices are leaning.
In a study commissioned by the Dane County Clerk that was released Sept. 25, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer found that the state's voter ID law did keep significant numbers of people from voting in Dane and Milwaukee counties in the November 2016 election.
Given the budget season's extensive debates over broad funding areas like transportation, there's understandably been less attention recently on a dispute over Wisconsin's historic preservation tax credits.
A survey of voters in Madison and Milwaukee found thousands of people were deterred from the polls by Wisconsin's voter ID law. UW-Madison political science professor Ken Mayer describes who these voters are.
What happened in 2016 with purported Russian hacking on Wisconsin's elections infrastructure? Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesperson Reid Magney says hackers may have been looking for possible entrances to gain access to voter data.
Among Governor Scott Walker's 99 vetoes to the 2017-19 budget was a sharp reduction to a tax credit aids developers rehabilitating historic buildings. UW-Milwaukee professor and Historic Preservation Institute director Matthew Jarosz discusses the impacts of this credit.
From Harvey to Irma to Maria, there have been no shortage of catastrophic hurricanes leaving parts of the U.S. and its territories under water and their residents on edge. But the technologies that track these storms is improving.
As students returned to classes around Wisconsin, uncertainty among school districts that rely on state funding lasted right up through the end of the Legislature's much-prolonged biennial budget process.
