Okay another great one: Group sends Twain an invitation to speak at an event, but the mail gets delayed and when it arrives, the day of the event has passed. Twain: “I am very, very sorry, but all last week’s dates are full. I will gladly come week before last, if that will answer.”

This guy, a former state lawmaker and tourism secretary, left behind millions of pounds of hazardous waste including 60 pounds of elemental mercury that was not properly stored. The state spent $4.6 million to clean it up. www.wpr.org/news/former-...

“In the past several months, leaders at federal agencies have made policy decisions and issued recommendations that aren’t supported by or directly contradict scientific consensus.” www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

Guy works in a field with a serious worker shortage. Good worker, model employee. Marries a U.S. citizen. Travels from Manitowoc to Milwaukee for asylum hearing. Judge doesn't get to him, and he can't get transportation to rescheduled hearing. Now he's being deported. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

“I signed that letter because it warned that the EPA is no longer using scientific findings to create and revoke regulation, and by doing so, it was placing American health in danger,” Cole said. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Wisconsin this weekend for a rally with Dem congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke. He spoke with WPR ahead of the visit. www.wpr.org/news/bernie-...

Workers at a cheesemaking plant in Monroe have walked off the job to protest the new owner’s use of E-Verify to check immigration status, which they say will push out workers with decades of service. www.wpr.org/news/dairy-w...

A mining company is drilling for metals in Wisconsin. Opponents are on edge. www.wpr.org/news/green-l...

The new special prosecutor investigating the Wausau mayor's removal of an empty ballot dropbox outside of city hall publicly hailed the state Supreme Court's 2022 decision banning ballot dropboxes. www.wpr.org/news/republi...

Wait so these parents stole another family’s house and kidnapped the baby inside it… and you people are APPLAUDING them? www.wpr.org/news/blended...

Wisconsin is in for a wild 2026 primary. www.wpr.org/news/tony-ev...

Commercial harvest of lake whitefish, a fish fry favorite, from Lake Michigan has declined nearly 90 percent in the last quarter-century. They are the victims of warming temperatures and invasive mussels, and they really could disappear. www.wpr.org/news/decline...

A Wisconsin bald eagle nearly died. A skin graft from a fish saved its life. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

Listening to the new Mark Twain biography by Ron Chernow and there are a lot of great Twain jokes from notebooks, letters and newspaper stories. He just wrote that French literature was “confined to the two great branches of modern French thought: science and adultery.”

Is conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley running for reelection? She has said yes, but she's raised $0 so far. That's unusual! www.wpr.org/news/justice...

EPA workers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are among those the Trump administration has placed on leave after they signed a letter against what they called the politicization of their scientific work. www.wpr.org/news/epa-wor...

Yes, you are seeing more fireflies in Wisconsin this year. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

I have some news I have not shared on this platform yet. I am very proud and excited to have accepted a job as managing editor of news for @WPR. I will oversee our news team’s editors and reporters around the state. It is a great team!!

This is the fourth of five Charles Portis novels I have read. I am a Charles Portis Bro now fyi.

Wisconsin's Medicaid director told WPR about 63,000 people would lose coverage if the House budget bill becomes law. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

I am sure a lot of people know about Driftless Books & Music, but I learned about it from this story and now I am definitely taking a road trip there.

I have a feeling this bill proposing to crack down on people falsely claiming their pets are service animals will be politically popular. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

I got to tour the new sawmill at Northcentral Technical College's Antigo campus, the first professional-grade training sawmill in the nation. They are working on cool, cutting-edge stuff in wood. www.wpr.org/news/antigo-...

This showed up on one of those spammy facebook accounts and I instantly remembered a great line by Zadie Smith, but I haven’t been able to track it down and may be misquoting. She quoted this from DFW and added “Perhaps the joke loses something in the telling.” Good joke!

The secretary of the federal Department of Health and Human Services either lied or was misinformed when he claimed the department has a "team" assisting in Milwaukee's lead crisis. www.wpr.org/news/rfk-jr-...

The year after I graduated from college I joined the AmeriCorps VISTA program and worked for an adult literacy program in Ohio, mostly helping people who wanted to get a GED to find services. Now AmeriCorps is the latest federal funding battle. www.wpr.org/news/tony-ev...

Fun interview with Wausau's poet laureate: www.wpr.org/culture/waus...

Not sure I love this situation. www.wpr.org/news/tornado...

For the second time this month, thousands of Wisconsinites took to the streets to protest President Donald Trump’s policies. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

The Department of Homeland Security told a Neenah man that he had days to leave the country. He's a U.S. citizen who never immigrated anywhere. www.wpr.org/news/federal...

Ben Wikler is moving on www.wpr.org/news/ben-wik...

The Trump administration laid off all the specialists who were helping Milwaukee respond to the lead crisis that has poisoned students at its schools, and denied a request for on-the-ground help. www.wpr.org/news/federal...

Today's the day! www.wpr.org/politics/wha...

I talked to a couple of wildlife biologists about this and they both said Wisconsin is definitely gonna have cougars of our own in the future. www.wpr.org/news/discove...

Hmm www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...

Someone left a message in the snow of Wausau's 400 Block, visible to a webcam, offering the advice "SMILE MORE." I kinda like it.

Well, the trade war is on. www.wpr.org/news/retalia...

I feel like the answer to this question from reporting by @joeschulz97.bsky.social is: probably? www.wpr.org/news/nfl-dra...

Hotel spending went up but spending on restaurants/bars, performing arts, sports and museums went *down* in Milwaukee County during the month of the Republican National Convention. www.wpr.org/news/tourism...

BLOOD MOON www.wpr.org/news/total-l...

Adventures in facebook marketplace

A disabled veteran, a VA health care worker, a pregnant Forest Service worker, an NIH researcher: @DanielleKaeding spoke with federal employees in Wisconsin fired for "performance." They say the claims are bogus. A judge has ruled the firings illegal. www.wpr.org/news/federal...

A Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Ashland is one of more than a dozen leases DOGE has canceled in Wisconsin. www.wpr.org/news/doge-te...

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I got to make a very fun audio piece for Wisconsin Life about Eric Bestul, a central Wisconsin musician whose passion is recreating the instruments and sounds of the Viking era. wisconsinlife.org/story/centra...

This seems bad to me. www.wpr.org/news/measles...

Extrapolating from spring training data the Cubs are on track for the first undefeated season in MLB history.

A UW-Madison biochemist whose work is helping advance understanding of the causes of cancer cannot hire research assistants because of a Trump administration freeze. He says dozens or hundreds of other labs in Wisconsin are in the same situation. www.wpr.org/news/trump-a...

NEW: I got the complaint in a new lawsuit filed against Kirk Bangstad. It alleges that Bangstad is using fake entities to disguise payments to himself from his Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC. www.wpr.org/news/lawsuit...

Bangstad to @robertmentzer.bsky.social: "the fact that you asked that question suggests that you are part of the Republican Party that’s trying to hurt my super PAC and trying to hurt my political activism" This story is recommended reading: www.wpr.org/news/minocqu...