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Reading Time: 4 minutes Click here to read highlights from the story To build or not to build, that’s the question Wisconsin voters have about state prisons as they choose between Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley. Tiffany said this week he supports building new prison capacity, while Crowley said he would prefer reducing prison time for nonviolent o...

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A judge in Milwaukee County has tossed out a trespassing citation a Shorewood man received last year for walking past a public beach along Lake Michigan’s shoreline, saying the action was protected by the public trust doctrine.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge J.D. Watts on Thursday reversed the decision of a  municipal judge, <...

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Note: This is the first story in the Cap Times series Deadly Divide, investigating Wisconsin’s ongoing Black infant mortality crisis. This reporting is supported through a National Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

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Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce Fact Briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims.

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The first election issues story reported and produced by the Northeast Wisconsin News Lab (NEW News Lab for short) was published Wednesday.

The consortium of newsrooms includes the Post-Crescent in Appleton, the Green Bay Press Gazette, the Green Bay Press Times, Wisconsin Public Radio and yours truly — Wisconsin Watch.

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