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What would happen if a devastating rainstorm that hits an area and causes damaging floods instead struck somewhere else?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Wisconsin is at the center of what is shaping up to be a landmark legal decision about how electoral districts are determined and the role of partisanship in creating legislative district boundaries.
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In the early decades of the 20th century, it was fashionable to use fox fur on everything from scarfs, capes, and coats to trim for suits and gowns.
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.
Health disparities between urban and rural populations don't quite hold when it comes to immunization rates in Wisconsin.