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UPDATE: Fire at the Viroqua Family Restaurant quickly brought under control

March 23, 2025 VIROQUA, Wis. – The Viroqua Fire Department reports that on Saturday, March 22 the department was dispatched at about 5:28 a.m. to the Viroqua Family Restaurant at 854 N. Main Street for a...

Social Security research group axed, including center at UW-Madison

by Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner March 21, 2025 The Social Security Administration has summarily closed a federally funded consortium of research centers, including one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Medicaid cuts rippling through rural America could bring hospital closures, job losses

by Jennifer Shutt, Wisconsin Examiner March 23, 2025 WASHINGTON — Americans living in rural communities throughout the country could see their access to health care diminish if Congress changes eligibility for...

AG Josh Kaul discusses lawsuits, compensating for decreased federal funds   

by Frank Zufall, Wisconsin Examiner March 21, 2025 Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul spoke Tuesday to the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Response Team about cuts to the federal Victims of Crime Act...

Reported plan to curtail federal funds for HIV prevention alarms Wisconsin provider

by Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner March 21, 2025 Wisconsin stands to lose at least $1.2 million a year to help prevent the spread of HIV if the federal government follows through on reported plans to...

Iowa’s polluted waterways rarely see improvement. Lawmakers still resist efforts to regulate industrial ag.

March 22, 2025 by Mónica Cordero – Investigate Midwest/Report for America More than four years ago, Terry Skahill bought land along the banks of the Yellow River in Allamakee County, Iowa, a place he had...

One senator’s lonely quest to make the farm bill more sustainable

“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in...

Only Congress can close the Department of Education, and Republicans are going to try

Mar 21, 2025 By Shauneen Miranda – States Newsroom D.C. Bureau WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressional Republicans are working to codify into law President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order that calls for...

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