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Addie Costello

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  • As federal cuts hit Wisconsin residents, one group pitches in to help

    1 month ago | civicmedia.us | Lisa Hale |Addie Costello |Bennet Goldstein |Phil Nee

    MADISON, Wis. (Public News Service) – Communities in Wisconsin are feeling the widespread effects of federal cuts and some organizations are pitching in to help those who have experienced funding freezes and mass layoffs. Rural areas depend heavily on federal funds for vital services like health care, education and infrastructure. Farmers who were counting on federal grant reimbursements are reeling from payment delays, waiting, in some cases, for up to $70,000.

  • Bird Flu Spreads as Musk’s DOGE Cuts Public Health Funding

    2 months ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Addie Costello |Anjulie Rao

    According to the latest data from the USDA, since 2022, bird flu outbreaks have led to the loss of more than 162 million birds in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, including 20 million birds in the last 30 days. Public health officials continue to maintain that the current risk to humans remains low. While there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission, there have been 70 confirmed cases nationally, the majority resulting from farmworkers exposed to the virus from dairy cattle.

  • In a North Dakota Courtroom, the Battle for Standing Rock Continues

    2 months ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Winona LaDuke |Addie Costello

    It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for most of us water protectors, we have not seen a lot of justice, particularly in North Dakota. The winter of 2016-17 was a mean one.

  • ‘Cruelty Is the Point’: The Toxic Trickle-Down of Musk’s Government Purge

    2 months ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Addie Costello |Michael Chameides

    On the day of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order establishing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.

  • Advocates for County-Owned Nursing Homes Take Their Fight to the Wisconsin State Capitol

    2 months ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Addie Costello |Bennet Goldstein

    Roppe, a self-described “five-foot nothing, crippled little old lady,” fiercely opposes selling Portage County’s public nursing home to a private bidder. She’s spent years causing “good trouble” in voicing that opinion to elected board members. Deputies have escorted her out of meetings “more than once,” she says. Board members say the county can no longer afford to operate the nursing home. They see Roppe differently, describing her as caustic, extremely loud and unproductive.

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