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State’s School Referendum Funding Breaks Records in 2018

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Beyond the high-profile contests held Tuesday, voters in 61 Wisconsin school districts faced a record 82 funding referenda questions. Those ballot questions total about $1.4 billion. Including Tuesday’s results, Wisconsin taxpayers have approved a record 2 billion dollars in referenda so far in 2018. Voters approved at least 56 of 61 school districts’ referenda amounting […]

Democrat Tony Evers Wins Race for Governor

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Fewer than 40 thousand votes. That’s the slim edge Democrat Tony Evers managed to eek out yesterday over Republican governor Scott Walker. That decision ends eight years of Walker in the Governor’s Mansion. His two terms have been colored by his plight to weaken public sector labor unions and cuts to education funding. Also on […]

Community Responds to Racist Flyers in Spring Green

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Spring Green residents are banding together after residents found racist posters around town — stuffed in mailboxes and scattered on windshields. The flyers are simple. White sheets of paper headlined White Lives Matter with links to six different racist and anti-Semitic websites and YouTube channels. No photos. No contact information. Just typed out links to […]

Low at 25

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Low, the band that Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk started in 1993 in Duluth, Minnesota, has always packed a ton of complexity and dynamism beneath its humble surface. The band’s latest album, Double Negative, released earlier this year, takes Low into some abrasive electronic territory. In some ways it’s a bold sonic turn, and in […]