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• Farmers markets return to Racine County for summer 2025 April 20, 2025
  RACINE, WI — The Racine area is home to many amazing farmers markets that will be opening soon for the summer season.  Our favorite markets are listed here:  Highway 11 Outdoor Market in Sturtevant  The Highway 11 Outdoor Market will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Mondays, with the first market scheduled for […]
  Amie Schaenzer
• Top 5 Racine County Eye stories from the week of April 19, 2025 April 19, 2025
  Missed the biggest headlines this week? We’ve rounded up the top five most-read stories on Racine County Eye to keep you informed and in the loop. From a major pause in Microsoft’s Mount Pleasant data center expansion to a unique scholarship opportunity for local students, here’s what had readers clicking and sharing Top Stories Stay […]
  Racine County Eye Staff
• 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