Articles by Frederica Freyberg

Wisconsin has responded to the nationwide rise in opioid addiction — fueled by cheap heroin, pain pills, and more recently fentanyl — with a series of bills that emphasize treatment over criminalization. But some of the state's initiatives focus on people already caught up in the criminal justice system.
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The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has embarked on a pilot program for soon-to-be released inmates and offenders on community supervision who suffer from opioid addiction. This medication-assisted treatment approach centers on a drug called Vivitrol.
Two federal judges ruled that the Wisconsin Legislature's Assembly district map unconstitutional, with a third dissenting. They ruled Assembly Republicans exhibited partisan gerrymandering beyond what is constitutional in creating these maps.
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Gas prices have dropped to under $2 at stations around Wisconsin. Chicago-based GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Patrick DeHaan talks about what's at play in these low prices.
Kathleen Falk, one of the regional directors for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is likely looking at a job change soon — her job is a political appointment under President Barack Obama's administration. But she had a strikingly sunny outlook about the future of the Affordable Care Act.
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As Republicans take control of both the White House and Congress, and vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act, open enrollment for a new year is beginning. U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services regional director Kathleen Falk discusses the future of the health insurance marketplace.
The 2016 presidential election marked the first for which Wisconsin's voter ID rule in place, and turnout hit record lows. UW-Madison La Follette School of Public Affairs professor Ken Mayer will study turnout in Milwaukee and Madison to learn more about the requirement's role in elections.
In the world of political polling, the Marquette University Law School Poll is considered the best in Wisconsin. When a new poll is released with a new round of results, political journalists across the state avidly follow it and tweet it out point-by-point.
UW-Madison professor Kathy Cramer studies rural perspectives on politics in Wisconsin, and has received attention for her book The Politics of Resentment . She discusses how the outcome of the 2016 presidential election reflects ongoing political trends in the state.
Donald Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election shocked pollsters, who had calculated leads for Hillary Clinton for the vast majority of the campaign season. Marquette Law School Poll director Charles Franklin discusses what might have polling strategies might have missed.