Andy Bensend on the math of growing and selling soybeans
Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board member and Barron County farmer Andy Bensend details how changes in the price of soybeans affects bottom lines of farms that grow at scale and have inflexible costs.
October 7, 2025
Musk’s SpaceX contests Wisconsin’s rural broadband plans
The Trump administration is pushing states to direct more federal funding into supporting satellite internet, which is cheaper to install but slower than fiber-optic broadband, and critics fear a giveaway to companies owned by centibillionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
October 7, 2025
Kaul to run for a third term as Wisconsin Attorney General in 2026 election
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is seeking reelection to a third term in that office in the 2026 election after speculation that he would instead run in the Democratic primary for governor.
October 7, 2025
A decade of immigrants to Wisconsin and immigration enforcement in 9 charts
Immigration hearing and arrest data from 2015 to 2023 illustrate where new immigrants to Wisconsin originated, where they settled in the state, and how they've fared in immigration court.
October 6, 2025
Wisconsin Department of Justice asks Waukesha County judge to pause voter citizenship order
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a Waukesha County judge to immediately put on hold an order that would require elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered Wisconsin voters before the statewide election in February 2026.
October 6, 2025
‘Here & Now’ Highlights: US Sen. Ron Johnson, John Rosenow, Sydney Timmer-Murillo
Here's what guests on the Oct. 3, 2025 episode said about the federal government shutdown, immigrant dairy workers and collective trauma from public violence.
October 6, 2025
US Sen. Ron Johnson on 2025 government shutdown politics
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, discusses the October 2025 shutdown of the federal government, the stance of Republican lawmakers in this impasse and goals of his proposed Eliminate Shutdowns Act.
October 3, 2025
John Rosenow on dairy workers and immigration enforcement
Roseholm-Wolfe Dairy owner John Rosenow discusses the reliance of Wisconsin dairy farms on immigrant labor for milking cows, the legal statuses of these workers and the prospect of immigration raids.
October 3, 2025 • West Central Region
Sydney Timmer-Murillo on public violence and shared trauma
Medical College of Wisconsin professor and clinical psychologist Sydney Timmer-Murillo considers how exposure to mass shootings and assassinations affect mental health and generate anxiety and trauma.
October 3, 2025
Tariffs, trade war and woes for Wisconsin’s soybean farmers
Wisconsin soybean farmers are enjoying a bumper crop, but are caught in the middle of a trade war with Trump administration tariffs on China and shifting global markets that are seeing sliding prices.
October 2, 2025
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