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• Higher education leaders ask Wisconsin lawmakers for state funding as federal cuts loom April 18, 2025
  Federal funding cuts and national culture war politics cast a long shadow over a state legislative committee hearing Thursday as Wisconsin’s higher education leaders asked lawmakers for additional investments in the next state budget — warning that disinvestment by the state could damage  public universities’, private nonprofit schools’ and technical colleges’ ability to serve students […]
  Baylor Spears
• Wisconsin’s name-change law raises safety risks for transgender people April 18, 2025
  In 2022, after living as a boy and going by a new name for several years, a 15-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, wanted to make it official. Like most teenagers, he dreamed of getting his driver’s license, and his family wanted his government identification to reflect who he really was. But Wisconsin law has a caveat: […]
  Phoebe Petrovic/Wisconsin Watch
• Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says April 18, 2025
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin governor’s creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. This story also appeared in Associated Press The 4-3 ruling from the liberal-controlled court affirms the partial veto power of Wisconsin […]
  Scott Bauer
• Medicaid in crisis: A Wisconsin family’s fight against delays, denials, and red tape April 18, 2025
  RACINE, WI — Emma Widmar’s insurance should have covered her $850 emergency room bill that arrived without explanation. Like so much of her care, the ambulance bill slipped between agencies.  For Emma and her mother, Ann, managing rare illnesses and navigating Medicaid has become a second full-time job, and their experience reveals a growing crisis: […]
  Denise Lockwood
• Racine’s Hidden Gems: Where Creativity Hangs Out in Unexpected Places April 18, 2025
  Tucked between the glint of Lake Michigan and the clang of industry, Racine has this quiet kind of cool. It doesn’t shout. It nudges. And if you’re willing to stray from the obvious—skip the banners, the blockbusters—you’ll find pockets of creativity blooming where you’d least expect it. Unexpected Corners of Culture: From Vintage Vinyl to […]
  Racine County Eye Staff