Dairyland Sentinel
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Three Years of Covering the State We Love
At Schwarz’s Supper Club in St. Anna, you still put your name in at the door, order an old fashioned at the bar and wait for your table. Ziggy and Evelyn…
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Two Audits of DPI Slip to Late Fall; State Won’t Say Why
Two state audits of the Department of Public Instruction are running late, and the agency conducting them won’t say why. The nonpartisan Legislative Audit…
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Deloitte 2026 Wisconsin 75: Top Private Enterprises Deliver $235 Billion Revenue Impact
Marking the 24th year of the program, Deloitte has officially released its 2026 Wisconsin 75 list, honoring the state’s largest closely held and privately…
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AG Kaul again seeks more open government staff as DOJ records delays grow
Department’s median response time increased from 14 days in 2025 to 58 days during the first half of 2026
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Everything Wrong With Wisconsin’s Education Bureaucracy in One Speech
If you tuned into State Superintendent Jill Underly’s “State of Education” address at the Capitol Thursday, you witnessed a classic (and predictable) display…
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Wisconsin Kicks Off 2027 to 2029 Budget Cycle as Agencies File Requests
Dairyland Sentinel Wisconsin State Budget Primer
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Milwaukee Election Commission Promises State it Will Release Primary Records by Friday
The saga surrounding the Milwaukee Election Commission and its bungled Aug. 11 primary night operation took a new turn this week. City officials finally…
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Now State Elections Regulators Consider Pressuring Milwaukee Over Withheld Election Records
The search for answers from the City of Milwaukee is now escalating to the highest levels of state election oversight. On August 14, Dairyland Sentinel…
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Milwaukee Election Commission Warns of “Months-Long” Delay for Primary Records
Get reporting like this in your inbox, free. After ten days of silence and a direct follow-up inquiry, the Milwaukee Election Commission has finally…
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Blunt and outspoken in her “rigged and broken system” message, Hong echoes a Trump‑like chord in the Wisconsin governor’s race
Hong and Trump sound an awful lot alike. That might just propel her to victory. Donald Trump is one of one. Everyone knows it. You cannot clone his political…
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This poll explains how Wisconsin’s governor race is about to unfold
Campaign finance controversies. Candidates dropping out and getting back in. Polls. One lone statewide televised debate. Power rankings. Big endorsements.…
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Delay, Deny, Deflect: Inside Wisconsin’s Government Transparency Problem
Wisconsin’s Public Records Law begins with one of the strongest declarations of open government in the nation. “The denial of public access generally is…
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DOJ Prod Gets DPI to Release $8M Forward Exam Workplan & Waterpark Workshop Details
It took 14 months, a mountain of ignored requests, the retention of a respected public policy legal powerhouse and a formal intervention by the Wisconsin…
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Dairyland Sentinel Asks AG Kaul to Force DPI Open Records Compliance
The Dairyland Sentinel filed a formal request Tuesday asking Attorney General Josh Kaul to intervene after the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction…
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USDA Invests $140 Million in Timber Expansion; Wisconsin Sawmills to Benefit
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday a $140.2 million investment across nine states to expand wood processing capacity…
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Wisconsin Home Affordability Hits Two-Year High as Mortgage Rates Cool
A combination of retreating mortgage rates and a rebound in housing inventory pushed Wisconsin housing affordability to its highest level in more than two…
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Autism Advocate: Why Congress Must Investigate Wisconsin’s DPI
By Kyle Maichle, Americans for Autism Advocacy Wisconsin families and taxpayers deserve answers. Recent reporting by Dairyland Sentinel has raised deeply…
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Joe Handrick on Evers’ Gerrymandering Hypocrisy
Governor Tony Evers made news yesterday, calling a special session of the Legislature to end partisan gerrymandering. This is akin to Jeffrey Dahmer issuing…
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Make Do with Less? Not DPI.
The Department of Public Instruction spends nearly $400,000 on a four-day Waterpark Workshop… two years later they’re encouraging teachers practice “scrappiness.”
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DPI Stonewalls Public: Where’s the Secret Waterpark Workshop Contract?
By Dairyland Sentinel Publisher Brian Fraley DPI has a transparency problem that is quickly becoming a legal one. After a year of stonewalling our…
