Evers clears small retailers to reopen

Today’s Midday podcast covers Gov. Tony Evers announcing small retailers can now reopen as Wisconsin for the first time showed a downward trajectory over a 14-day period for the percentage of daily positive COVID-19 tests.

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Marquette Poll shows presidential race remains tight in Wisconsin

The presidential race continued to be tight with 46 percent of voters backing presumptive Dem nominee Joe Biden and 43 percent supporting President Trump in the latest Marquette University Law School Poll. That’s largely unchanged from 48-45 in late March. Poll Director Charles Franklin said there’s also been a significant

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Biden ad accuses Trump of downplaying COVID-19 threat

Dem Joe Biden’s campaign says it’s running a new digital ad in Wisconsin accusing President Trump of downplaying the threat of COVID-19 as the disease began to spread across the country. The ad will run statewide on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube in Wisconsin. The ad is also running in Arizona,

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U.S. Sen. Baldwin, bipartisan colleagues: Call for fairness for farmers, request DOJ investigate potential illegal practices by beef packers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined a bipartisan group of her Senate colleagues, led by Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), in writing a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice requesting that the department investigate potential anticompetitive activities in the highly concentrated beef packing sector. “Recent pricing

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Evers clears small retailers to reopen

Today’s Midday podcast covers Gov. Tony Evers announcing small retailers can now reopen as Wisconsin for the first time showed a downward trajectory over a 14-day period for the percentage of daily positive COVID-19 tests.

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7th CD clerks say election running smoothly, in-person turnout mixed

City clerks in northern Wisconsin’s sprawling 7th CD say today’s special election so far is running smoothly.  State Sen. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, faces Dem opponent and Wausau School Board President Tricia Zunker in today’s election. Some clerks in the sampling of municipalities WisPolitics.com spoke with reported low in-person turnout, while

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