Digging Deeper: Pandemic’s effect on school mental health services
As the pandemic continues to change school routines, it’s also having an effect on the way students receive mental health care.…
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Election results reveal Dane County’s growing influence
While Dane County has long been known as politically active, the growth in its population, and turnout, has given it considerably more influence on…
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‘They’re not going to stay home’: Counties that flipped in 2016 could determine 2020
23 Wisconsin counties that voted strongly for President Barack Obama in 2012 flipped to support President Trump four years later.…
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‘Good chance there will be Militia’ — Clerks, law enforcement prepare for voter intimidation
Local law enforcement and election clerks are preparing for possible disruptions on election day: Militia groups.…
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‘Why are we sending police?’: Madison explores alternative response to mental health-related calls
When an emergency call comes in for a person having a mental health crisis or another episode in their struggle with addiction, often times, police…
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‘We’re in a constant struggle,’ Pandemic adds to substitute teacher shortage in schools
As schools work through the challenges of the pandemic, they’re also dealing with how to staff classes during the unusual school year.…
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Virtual learning forces parents to leave jobs, adapt to changes
The change in schooling is causing some parents to make big decisions about their careers in order to be around to help their…
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Job difficulty, lack of experience behind a shortage of contact tracers
Thousands applied to become contact tracers but many we’re inexperienced, fired, or resigned due to the difficulty of the…
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‘A really hard year,’ digging deeper into pandemic impact on hotel industry
2020 was going to be a banner year for hotels. Instead, the pandemic hit, and six months later more than half of the state’s hotels still have staff…
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Young adults driving COVID-19 case spike; experts monitoring for spread, hospitalizations
Wisconsin has set new single-day records for confirmed new cases of COVID-19 twice in the past five days. Cases among people between 18 and 24 years…
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