AFP-Wisconsin: Statement on President Biden’s visit to Westby

Westby, WI– Today, President Biden visited Dairyland Power Cooperative in Westby to announce the Biden-Harris administration’s latest pet project—a $7.3 billion handout for so-called ‘renewable’ energy projects funded by taxpayers as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Referring to the Inflation

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A Better Wisconsin Together: Project 2025 author backs Trump in Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. — Donald Trump’s close involvement with Project 2025 became even clearer this week as one of its contributors, Monica Crowley, stopped in Milwaukee to tout her support for Trump’s agenda. Project 2025, a 900-page document written by former Trump staffers and MAGA allies as a blueprint for a Trump-Vance Administration, would:

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Dept. of Public Instruction: State superintendent welcomes Secretary Cardona to Wisconsin, joins state, local leaders in kicking off new school year

MADISON — State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly over the last two weeks kicked off the 2024-25 school year by visiting with students and staff at public schools around the state. She also joined U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and other leaders this week in learning about the needs of Wisconsin’s

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Dept. of Financial Institutions: Wisconsin’s State-Chartered Credit Unions Report Sound Second-Quarter Financial Performance

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s 107 state-chartered credit unions continue to exhibit sound financial performance as of June 30, 2024, according to data released today by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI). At the end of the second quarter, total assets for Wisconsin’s state-chartered credit unions rose to $65.7 billion. This

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WisDems: Derrick Van Orden gives unions the shaft on Labor Day

MADISON, Wis. — On Labor Day, Derrick Van Orden spoke out of both sides of his mouth, claiming to support working Wisconsinites while asking voters to get behind the most anti-union, anti-worker ticket in modern history in Donald Trump and JD Vance.  Derrick Van Orden is more focused on propping up Trump’s wealthy

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Marshfield Clinic Health System: Invests in communities by addressing harm reduction needs with 43 new NaloxBoxes in Rusk, Portage, Dodge and Barron counties

MARSHFIELD – Marshfield Clinic Health System is helping families and rural communities grappling with substance use and abuse by supporting harm reduction needs. Harm reduction engages directly with people who use drugs to prevent overdoses and the spread of infectious diseases, like HIV and hepatitis C by empowering them to

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AFP-Wisconsin: Statement on President Biden’s visit to Westby

Westby, WI– Today, President Biden visited Dairyland Power Cooperative in Westby to announce the Biden-Harris administration’s latest pet project—a $7.3 billion handout for so-called ‘renewable’ energy projects funded by taxpayers as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. Referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden claimed, “We should have called it

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WisDems: On election denier Derrick Van Orden as the “Special Guest” at election integrity training

MADISON, Wis. — January 6th insurrectionist Derrick Van Orden will be the Special Guest at Protect the Vote Wisconsin’s Election Integrity Training in La Crosse today. Derrick Van Orden is deeply committed to undermining democracy and feeding right-wing election conspiracies—he falsely claimed there was “a tremendous amount of voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election and

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Healthy Climate Wisconsin: New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative will bring cheaper bills, better health, and renewable energy to rural Wisconsin

La Crosse, Wisconsin – President Biden announced today that Dairyland Power Cooperative will receive nearly $573 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. This funding will support Dairyland’s procurement of 1,080 megawatts of clean energy through power purchase agreements for four solar and four

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