Colleen Leahy

1 week ago | wpr.org | Colleen Leahy

Lori Schneider is an extremely accomplished outdoorswoman and athlete. The Wisconsin native has completed the , a capstone achievement for any serious mountaineer. She is the first person with multiple sclerosis to accomplish the feat. Schneider says the reason she got into mountaineering is her late father, Neal, who died last year. The two of them climbed Mount Kilimanjaro together in the early 1990s, setting off Schneider's decade-and-a-half-long mountain-climbing journey.

1 month ago | wpr.org | Colleen Leahy

Rep. Gwen Moore, a Democrat representing Milwaukee County, says the far-reaching spending and tax cut bill the U.S. House passed last week is a ploy to benefit the richest Americans. "It's all a game to come up with this money for permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest people," Rep. Moore said. She recently spoke with WPR's " Wisconsin Today " about her thoughts on the bill. The bill is massive, covering child tax credits, student loans, immigration and more.

1 month ago | wpr.org | Colleen Leahy

of states have laws that use fetal personhood language, according to abortion rights group Pregnancy Justice. These laws aren't limited to states where abortion is severely restricted or outlawed; purple and blue states where abortion is legal, like Wisconsin, also have similar laws on the books.

2 months ago | wpr.org | Colleen Leahy

A federal judge in Baltimore recently ruled that DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, couldn't have access to Social Security Administration data and would have to purge all non-anonymized data they had accessed prior to the ruling. And an appeals court, also in Baltimore, allowed DOGE to have access to sensitive data from the Treasury Department, the Education Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

2 months ago | wpr.org | Colleen Leahy

Tom Southworth loves being in nature. So, when he was introduced to the sport of orienteering, he was all game. The sport involves physical and mental exercise, as participants are tasked with finding markers on an unknown course using only a map and compass. There are several of these markers, called "controls," and whoever finds them all first wins. It's a bit "like a little mental puzzle," Southworth said. "You're out there exercising physically, you're also having to mentally choose routes ...