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(The Center Square) – People living and visiting Milwaukee will likely be paying more under Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s latest spending plan.
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(The Center Square) – Parents across Wisconsin have a new tool to track how well their kids’ or community’s school is doing.
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(The Center Square) – Milwaukee’s election managers are sounding the alarm over voter registration forms that some voters are getting in the mail.
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany unveiled a taxpayer accountability plan Friday, including additional state government audits and transparency measures after opponent David Crowley announced his own anti-corruption plan including bans on government officials stock trading and using inside information on prediction markets earlier in the week.
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(The Center Square) – Data centers and oversight have become a hot topic in both state and congressional races across the country, including in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, where challenger Rebecca Cooke paid for a recent commercial claiming that incumbent Derrick Van Orden sold out taxpayers in the district on data center regulations.
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s dairymen are happy to see the latest farm bill move forward at the Capitol.
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.2% in August numbers released on Thursday, remaining below the 4.1% national average.
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(The Center Square) - Wisconsin gas prices rose to an average of $4.36 per gallon for unleaded on Thursday, trailing the $4.46 per gallon national average according to GasBuddy data.
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(The Center Square) – Thursday should be a busy day for Wisconsin’s local election managers, but the reality is that there have already been several busy days.
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(The Center Square) – A transmission line to power a Port Washington data center is no longer planned to run through the property of a Saukville artist.
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(The Center Square) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court chose not to suspend the law license of former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan on Wednesday.
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(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin lawmaker who previously was a sponsor of a Flock camera grant bill is now calling for a ban on the unchecked use of the Flock automated license plate reader cameras.
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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s measles outbreak continues to grow, and now there is a case outside of the southwestern part of the state.
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