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An NPR investigation found that since the Capitol riot, the election denial movement has moved from the national level to hundreds of grassroots events across the country. Here are four key takeaways.
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BMW knows a little something about sporty handling and spunky performance and it shows in its X3 compact premium luxury SUV. -
A setback for opponents of the Wisconsin DNR swapping state parkland to help a golf course developerConservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court block a citizens group from challenging a DNR land swap.
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A 28-year-old Black transgender woman named Brazil Johnson was recently killed in Milwaukee. This week, a few dozen of Johnson’s loved ones gathered where she was killed for a vigil.
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A barista-led labor movement has dealt challenges to coffee shop owners, and not just Howard Schultz. In Milwaukee, two independently owned cafés faced union drives with two very different outcomes.
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Every month, Milwaukee Record's Matt Wild shares a sample of what he’s been listening to for the Milwaukee Music Roundup. Here's his list for July 2022.
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Wisconsin lags behind many others in its protection of LGBTQ people. The Wisconsin legislature has taken steps to enshrine the practice of gay conversion therapy, a variety of techniques meant to change someone’s sexuality which can lead to psychological damage and suicide. But that hasn't stopped cities from enacting their own bans, including the latest: LaCrosse.
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WUWM's Community Engagement Coordinator Rafael Muñoz-Echavarria talks with Milwaukee LGTBQ activist Elle Hill about her work, life experiences and the anniversary of Stonewall.
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An unusual flotilla set out last week starting in Madison and ending 40 nautical miles downstream in the Rock River in Beloit. It featured a hand-hewn dugout canoe, fashioned after those used by long-ago ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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