Wisconsin 
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SOURCE: NPR
10/27/2020
Wisconsin's Ballot Extension Plan Blocked By U.S. Supreme Court
NPR's David Greene talks to election law expert Rick Hasen about Monday's Supreme Court decision that may offer a a window into how the court could rule over a contested Election Day outcome.
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SOURCE: WKOW
8/24/2020
Experts Dive into How Protest Action Brings Attention to Causes, Issues
"That 'I'm not alone' feeling is one of the biggest things that people get out of being in a protest," said historian Jonathan Pollack.
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SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
6/24/2020
Madison Protesters Tear Down Capitol Statues, Attack State Senator From Milwaukee As Fury Erupts Again
The statue of a Wisconsin abolitionist seemed an odd target for protesters.
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SOURCE: Urban Milwaukee
5/26/2020
Wisconsin’s Long History As Swing State
Wisconsin's status as a swing state in presidential elections is nothing new. It reflects the state's part in major trends in American history including immigration, urbanization, and the rural-urban divide.
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SOURCE: Counter Punch
11-29-16
The Sundown Town Vote in Wisconsin: Race-ing the Trump Victory
by David Roediger and Kathryn Robinson
Did sundown towns elect Trump in Wisconsin?
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3-8-15
This Is What Right-to-Work Means
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
“Right to work” sounds benign, if not all-American. It is in fact malignant, not just for organized labor, but also a state’s economic health.
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SOURCE: Wisconsin State Journal
4-18-13
A new musical legacy for Frank Lloyd Wright's father, courtesy of music historian
One thing that’s not disputed about Frank Lloyd Wright’s father is this: He loved music.Long portrayed as a distant parent and meager breadwinner who abandoned the family when Frank was 17, the senior Wright emerges as a much different character — a cultured and exuberantly creative man who lived a life in music — in the new CD, “The Music of William C. Wright.”Produced by Oak Park, Ill., music historian and architecture fan David Patterson, the 72-minute CD features pieces composed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s father in a musical career that spanned the second half of the 19th century. Many of those years were spent in Wisconsin, including Madison and Frank’s birthplace of Richland Center...
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