Awesome reporting from our neighbors at the @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...

NEWS: At the Wisconsin Farmers Union's annual lobby day this morning Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul said the federal government is "obstructing" the investigation into the Minneapolis ICE shooting and that he's "making sure we're prepared" if feds come to Wisconsin. wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/attor...

Milwaukee police don’t have a plan if ICE launches massive operation in the city. @henry-redman.bsky.social reports buff.ly/pJ08JaI

For now, data center development concerns have escaped partisan polarization. That will probably change, @bcburden.bsky.social tells @henry-redman.bsky.social

Republicans have complained the Knowles-Nelson stewardship fund claims too much land. But other public land uses account for much more, @henry-redman.bsky.social finds in his latest story.

Our @isiahholmes.bsky.social has been the leading Wisconsin reporter on issues involving #police #surveillance. Here's his latest: Milwaukee sheriff pushes facial recognition technology before county board wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/10/m...

I spent yesterday tromping around in the snow to learn about the conservation projects that might get killed if Wisconsin's Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Grant program isn't extended next summer:

It's Veterans Day, but in Wisconsin the impasse over serving homeless vets remains. "Our veterans deserve better than political games," says one Democratic state rep. @bspears.bsky.social has the big picture.

New bill in the Wisconsin Legislature seeks to regulate data center construction via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/06/d...

Scoop from @bspears.bsky.social: GOP lawmaker says bill redefining abortion is good politics, but also wants a total ban

Assembly committee debates ‘reality-based’ vs. conspiracy minded solutions to absentee drop boxes. Via @henry-redman.bsky.social.

New this morning: Reporter @henry-redman.bsky.social looks at the state's plunge into hosting data centers and their potential impact on water, utility costs and more.

BREAKING: Dodge Co sheriff is transporting migrants to and from a controversial Illinois ICE facility @isiahholmes.bsky.social and @henry-redman.bsky.social report wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/21/d...

The front of the march has looped back to Cathedral Square while the back is still nowhere in sight and a couple motorcycles (literally) rev up the crowd

Protesters in Milwaukee are kicking off their 1.8 mile march through downtown for No Kings day

J. a first generation Mexican-American from Milwaukee who is wearing their costume to “take the wind out of the administration’s sails” tells me “this alien is anti-ICE.”

I’m covering today’s No Kings protest in Milwaukee today for @wisconsinexaminer.com — follow along from Cathedral Square Park

Dems push for independent commission to draw legislative maps. Via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/17/d...

Wisconsin legislators again seek PFAS compromise via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/07/w...

Manitowoc ICE raid strikes at heart of Wisconsin dairy country. @henry-redman.bsky.social reports. buff.ly/bcIuwhP

JD Vance talks manufacturing, tax cuts and crime in ag-heavy La Crosse, while Dems and voters focus on other issues via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/08/28/i...

Wisconsin Dems introduce proposal to save the popular Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/08/26/w...

Republican legislators propose bill to prevent local ‘rights of nature’ ordinances. @henry-redman.bsky.social reports buff.ly/9c4eAum

I wrote about the em dash

tired: taking several days to pass a budget through both chambers and for governor to consider signing wired: Full Legislature debating and passing the budget in 15 hours and governor can signing it directly after around 1:30 a.m. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/07/03/e...

Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidates 1849 abortion ban via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/07/02/w...

The start of drilling in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Taylor County has started several disputes between enviros and DNR/mining company officials over the project's potential impact on the local groundwater and north fork of the Yellow River

Thousands join 'No Kings Day' protests in Wisconsin via @henry-redman.bsky.social and @isiahholmes.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/14/t...

Protesters begin their March from Campus mall up State Street to the capitol here in Madison

About 15 Statues of Liberty are dancing around Trump and Putin at Madison’s No Kings protest today

DOGE cancels lease of USGS Rice Lake water monitoring office. @henry-redman.bsky.social hears from environmental policy experts & a USGS insider about the impact of closing the facility next year. buff.ly/bhLHe5D

Incumbent State Superintendent Jill Underly wins a second term tonight, defeating GOP-backed candidate Brittany Kinser wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/01/s...

My story on tonight's results, which came way quicker than I was prepared to be camped out in Pewaukee for:

Schimel, conceding as audience cries about election fraud, says “we’ve gotta accept this”

Here at the Schimel watch party in Pewaukee, he hasn’t yet spoken but is just beginning to play bass with his band

I'm seeing a lot of folks dunking on the farmers but there's something more ppl should know. Sponsor #WFU progressive-leaning w/ roots in 1930s. & those counties are red on the election map, but that doesn't mean 100%. There were blue votes in there, too, just not as many.

Farmers express concerns about chaos from Trump tariffs and budget cuts; GOP electeds fail to show up via @henry-redman.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/21/r...

Come for the story about how cuts at NOAA could harm Wisconsin's management of the Great Lakes, stay for the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald reference I managed to get into my lede.

In the @wisconsinexaminer.com today, @henry-redman.bsky.social profiles Susan Crawford's campaign for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Did you know that @wiexaminer.com has 3 times! as many followers here on BlueSky as we ever had on that other platform? Welcome! 🧵

@isiahholmes.bsky.social spent over a year investigating how Milwaukee-area cops investigate themselves for shootings and use that process to avoid accountability

Via @henry-redman.bsky.social ... GOP lawmakers circulate draft legislation that critics say would gerrymander the courts when lawsuits are filed involving the state.

Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously finds WEC administrator can stay in job. @henry-redman.bsky.social has the details. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/02/07/w...

In Cap Times, Speaker Vos says Republican legislators won't take another stab at shared revenue (even as communities like Madison and Waukesha cry for more help) because previous bill was "biased toward big cities," which isn't true. Madison receives second lowest $ of state aid per capita.

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New from our #CriminalJusticeTeam member Frank Zufall: How a police officer's false report led a prosecutor to drop 40 criminal cases.